Michelle Moran has joined the London office of global law firm K&L Gates as a partner in the investment management, hedge funds, and alternative investments practice. She joins from Ropes & Gray. Moran advises European and UK clients on the establishment, authorisation, and management of retail and institutional investment funds in the UK, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Jersey. These include UCITS, hedge funds, private funds, investment trusts, real estate funds, and segregated institutional portfolios. She has worked on a wide variety of transactions involving investment managers, brokers, custodians, fund service providers, and operating platforms. Moran’s extensive regulatory experience includes having participated on

SANNE continues to drive forward its global change agenda with the appointment of a Global Director of Change Management.

PwC has appointed Fiona Carpenter as a partner in its UK financial services tax practice. Carpenter specialises in alternative asset management and has 20 years’ experience helping alternative managers and funds with tax structuring and compliance. She will lead PwC’s alternative asset management practice throughout EMEA.   Fiona, who joins from EY, was chief financial officer for TT International, a boutique asset manager, between 2010 to 2013. This provided her with an appreciation of the wider regulatory, legal and commercial issues impacting alternative asset managers. She has also served as an elected member of the AIMA Council.   Stuart Higgins,

OppenheimerFunds has opened its new headquarters for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in London. The office will allow OppenheimerFunds to expand the distribution of its investment strategies, including its growing number of UCITS offerings, across the region. “Building out our office in London, a global financial centre, is a critical component of our international strategy. Having a local presence enhances our capabilities to reach our growing EMEA client base and provides access to our flagship strategies.” says Art Steinmetz (pictured), Chairman and CEO of OppenheimerFunds.   Doug Stewart, Head of EMEA, leads OppenheimerFunds’ London-based operations. To further build out the firm’s capabilities across these markets, Stewart recently hired Dicken Watson as Chief Operating

JonesTrading Institutional Services has appointed Bob Becker as a Managing Director, Head of Capital Introduction based in New York. In this role, Becker (pictured), will be responsible for building the firm’s Capital Introduction offering – the focus will be on alternative investment managers, institutional investors, and family offices. Becker has held similar senior roles at other firms including Jefferies. He has also previously worked in the outsourced COO/CFO industry and on the buyside including launching and managing his own hedge fund.   JonesTrading is a relatively new but rapidly growing player in the Outsourced Trading and Prime Services businesses after

SANNE has appointed Stuart Harris as Director of Global Facilities to support the ongoing enhancement of the firm’s growing services and strategic development. Harris (pictured), will drive the strategic direction of facilities management across the 15 jurisdictions in which SANNE operates. He brings with him 30 years of experience that has included the management of multi-million-pound facility and real estate schemes, and M&A projects across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the UK.   Harris joins SANNE from FIS Global, where he was director of real estate for the EMEA region. He managed all M&A and integration projects covering 77

Sycomore AM has appointed Brice Prunas and Jessica Poon as senior global analysts. Both join the investment team, which now includes 19 professionals. These appointments are designed to allow Sycomore to broaden its research universe to include the United States and Asia and to strengthen its expertise, notably in the IT Services & Software, Technology and Consumer Goods & Services sectors worldwide.   Prunas, 43, has close to 20 years’ experience in the analysis of listed companies and has developed recognised expertise in IT Services & Software and Technology as a whole. After serving as a European Equity analyst at

Trium Capital has appointed Donald Pepper as co-head of the firm Capital alongside co-founder Shenan Dhanani. With a career spanning over 30 years, Pepper has a wealth of hedge fund and alternative UCITS fund experience, including time with Goldman Sachs Prime Brokerage Sales, and Merrill Lynch as managing director of Prime Brokerage for EMEA. In this role, Pepper worked on the launch of the MLIS UCITS platform in 2007.   Pepper moved to the “buy side” in 2008 when he became head of alternatives at New Star and, upon its acquisition, head of hedge funds at Henderson Global Investors. In