Experienced Cayman funds specialist Barry McEwan has joined Ogier’s Cayman Islands team as Counsel. McEwan (pictured), whose practice spans all areas of corporate and commercial work, with a focus on investment funds and private equity, is listed in Legal 500 as a ‘Next Generation Lawyer’ for Investment Funds.   Having started his career at Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance in London before moving to the Cayman Islands in 2014, Barry adds strength to Ogier’s growing funds team which is highlighted as an ‘early leader in Cayman’s nascent cryptocurrency space’ by IFLR 1000.   Partner Bradley Kruger says: “Our team continues

Seyfarth Shaw has added partner Steven R Paradise to the Litigation department in New York. Paradise joins from Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP, where he was a partner in the firm’s Litigation group in New York.

 For more than 25 years, Paradise’s practice has focussed on representing clients in an extensive array of significant commercial and securities litigation. He has advised accounting firms and issuers in accounting-related litigation and enforcement matters and represented parties involved in Ponzi schemes and other financial frauds. In addition, Paradise has counselled businesses and individuals facing investigations and enforcement proceedings from the SEC, FINRA and

SANNE, a leading global provider of alternative asset and corporate services, has opened a new office in Amsterdam. The opening of this new office adds further European capability to SANNE’s already strong network of offices located in the leading international financial centres, including London, Dublin, Luxembourg, Madrid, Paris and the Channel Islands. The office also provides further opportunities post-Brexit for EU based services.   Sean Murray, Managing Director – Alternative Assets – EMEA, says: “We are delighted to announce the opening of our new office in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, which adds further value to our already well-established European footprint.

Institutional investment consulting firm Callan has appointed Pete Keliuotis, CFA as an executive vice president and the head of the company’s Alternatives Consulting business. Keliuotis, who is based in the Summit, NJ office, will report to Callan’s President James Callahan, CFA.   Keliuotis joins Callan from Cliffwater where he was a senior managing director and a senior member of the Portfolio Advisory team, helping institutional clients build alternative investment portfolios with a focus on private assets and alternatives strategies. Prior to Cliffwater, Keliuotis was a managing director and the CEO of Strategic Investment Solutions (SIS) where he led the General

Shareholder and corporate governance law firm Grant & Eisenhofer has expanded its shareholder activism practice with the addition of Jonathan Oestreich, who joins as a director. Under his direction, G&E will work with hedge funds, asset managers, and other investors seeking constructive change at public companies.   Oestreich (pictured), was most recently a managing director at Spotlight Advisors in New York, an advisory firm focussed on shareholder activism and proxy contests. Previously, he was a senior M&A banker and led the contested situations practice at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. He started his career as an M&A, securities, and private funds

Trium Capital, a London-based alternative investment specialist, has hired industrials specialist Jonathan Ingram to manage a new developed market, industrials-focused equity market neutral strategy.  Ingram’s appointment is one of several recent high-profile hires for Trium, as the group prepares to unveil a broader proposition to investors. The Global Industrials strategy will be run using a systematic ‘value catalyst approach’. It relies on deep fundamental analysis to identify price and value dislocations, in order to capture relative arbitrage opportunities within a sector – thereby ensuring low correlation to the market.  Ingram has worked on industrials-focused hedge fund strategies for 15 years,

MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has appointed Julie Jeffers-Flynn as Executive Director of business development.  Jeffers-Flynn will be based in New York and report to Michael Rucci, US President and CEO of MUFG Investor Services. Jeffers-Flynn will support MUFG Investor Services’ mutual fund platform, overseeing the management and awareness for MUFG’s 40 Act fund services expertise to mutual funds, ETFs, UITs and CITs. Her appointment reinforces MUFG’s commitment to growing its investor services business and enhancing client offerings across all investment strategies, asset types and fund structures. “We are thrilled to have

Sidley Austin has appointed John H Butler as a partner and member of the firm’s global M&A and Private Equity practice, in New York. Butler, who joins from Davis Polk & Wardwell, counsels clients on high-profile mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, restructurings and general corporate representations. He represents corporate, private equity and hedge fund investors on complex transactions and has extensive experience advising financial institutions in connection with advisory assignments. “John’s proven dedication to client service and ability to lead on major deals makes him a perfect addition as we continue to build out our M&A and Private Equity practice

Sidley Austin has appointed Steven Kolyer as a partner in the firm’s Global Finance practice in New York.  Formerly a partner with Clifford Chance, Kolyer practice focuses on securitsations, with a particular emphasis in collateralised loan obligations (CLOs). His CLO practice includes both corporate loan CLOs and commercial real estate CLOs (CRE CLOs). Kolyer has extensive experience representing issuers, managers and arrangers in corporate loan CLOs and in CRE CLOs, as well as in establishing debt investment funds and related financings. His experience includes conventional securities offerings, commercial lending transactions, and private fund structurings and formations as well as credit-linked