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Forefront Communications Group, a boutique marketing and PR firm focused on the capital markets and fintech, has appointed Eric Soderberg as a managing partner of the firm.
Soderberg (pictured) brings over 20 years of capital markets and fintech marketing and communications experience to Forefront.
His past experience includes chief marketing and communications officer roles at Macgregor, ClariFI, NYFIX, Trepp, BondDesk Group and Convergex.
He has been accountable throughout his career for helping companies define and strengthen their brands; generate buzz around new products, capabilities and ideas; build compelling demand generation campaigns; and develop executive communications that inspire employees, clients and
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has appointed Joshua Tod as of counsel in the firm’s London office.
Previously of counsel with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Tod will support Gibson Dunn’s existing EMEA private investment funds practice.
Tod has experience advising private equity, infrastructure, credit and real estate funds. He regularly counsels clients on the establishment and operation of private investment funds, including advising on the structuring and marketing of such funds and commercial issues arising from their operation.
Tod has represented a range of private fund managers on multi-billion large buyout and mid-market fundraisings. He also advises on matters ranging from
Law firm K&L Gates has appointed Michael T Dyson as a partner in the government enforcement practice of its Washington DC office.
Dyson joins K&L Gates from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the self-regulatory organisation dedicated to investor protection and market integrity through effective and efficient regulation of broker-dealers.
Dyson has nearly 20 years of public and private sector regulatory and enforcement experience with a concentration on complex civil and white-collar criminal litigation and domestic and international arbitration in industry sectors such as securities, internal investigations, real estate, construction, labour and employment, antitrust, professional liability, product liability, and technology.
Greenstone Equity Partners, a fund placement firm based in the Middle East, has hired Sean Kearney as chief operating officer and Khalid Alkelabi as managing director, investor relationships.
Kearney (pictured) is an emerging markets banking professional with a 23-year career devoted to identifying and managing risk. His key responsibilities will include operations team leadership, lead-managing the implementation of internal control framework enhancements, running regulatory processes and overseeing strategic change management.
Prior to joining Greenstone, Kearney worked for a decade at UBS in London and Dubai. In his last position with the firm as group COO, Middle East and North
Peter Brown has been appointed head of funds at RBS International to drive the expansion of the bank’s offering to the alternative funds sector.
Brown (pictured) has more than 25 years’ experience in corporate and institutional banking, and most recently headed up the RBS Financial Institutions Group in the UK, which included the RBS funds banking business in London.
Prior to that, he was one of the founding members of the RBS mid-market leveraged finance business, delivering multi-million-pound buyout transactions alongside key private equity sponsors.
Brown now leads a funds banking team that supports more than 1,000 fund
Timothy G Massad has tendered his resignation as chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to President Obama, effective 20 January 2017.
Massad (pictured) issued the following statement:
“For the past two and a half years, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside the very talented CFTC staff, and I thank them for their dedication on behalf of the American people. I also want to express my appreciation to my fellow commissioners, Sharon Bowen and Chris Giancarlo, for the constructive and collaborative engagement we have had throughout my tenure. I am also very grateful to President Obama
Law firm Akin Gump has elected 10 new partners, effective 1 January 2017.
The 10 individuals and their respective office locations are Gerald Brant (New York), Olivia Chung (New York), Olivier De Moor (New York), Sophie Donnithorne-Tait (London), Mahmoud (Mac) Baki Fadlallah (Dubai/Washington, DC), Jaisohn Jungbin Im (New York), Allison P Miller (New York), Daniel L. Moffett (San Antonio), Alexander Specht (New York) and Annisah Iman Um’rani (Washington, DC)
“The lawyers promoted to partner this year are a very talented and diverse group of individuals,” says Akin Gump chairperson Kim Koopersmith (pictured). “I know they will continue to work tirelessly
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has named Jeremy Berry as a partner in the firm’s asset management practice.
Berry (pictured) will be based in New York.
Berry has experience in advising large private equity and hedge fund managers on matters involving private investment funds and complex corporate transactions, with a focus on private equity and hedge fund formation and other alternative investment matters.
"Jeremy brings a wealth of experience representing some of the most prominent private equity and hedge fund sponsors and investment banks, as well as a broad range of other investment management clients," says David Greenwald, chairman of
Apex Fund Services has appointed Daniel Strachman as head of US business development.
Strachman (pictured) brings more than 20 years of financial services experience having held positions at Cantor Fitzgerald and Morgan Stanley.
He led A&C Advisors for 16 years delivering strategic guidance, counsel and support to investment management companies and institutional investors.
Strachman is the author of nine investment strategy books including “The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management and Getting Started in Hedge Funds”. In his new role at Apex he will drive US growth initiatives and deliver fund management clients with proactive fund administration solutions.
William J Brodsky, Susan M Phillips and R Eden Martin, among CBOE Holdings' longest serving board members, are to step down from the board upon the closing of CBOE’s acquisition of Bats Global Markets.
Their resignations are conditional upon the transaction closing.
CBOE Holdings and Bats have entered into a definitive agreement that provides that at the effective time of the Bats acquisition, CBOE Holdings' board of directors will consist of 14 directors.
These 14 directors will include 11 directors currently serving on the CBOE Holdings board plus three individuals who are serving on the Bats board of
