David E Barrett, a transactions lawyer with significant financial institutions experience, has joined Norton Rose Fulbright’s New York office as a partner. Barrett comes to Norton Rose Fulbright from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Barrett’s practice focuses primarily on acquisitions and disposals, restructurings, securities offerings and other transactions involving financial institutions and financial services businesses. His transactional experience includes significant cross-border matters and acquisitions as well as divestitures of financial services firms operating on a global scale.   Barrett represents a wide range of clients, including global universal banks, investment managers, securities and investment firms, private equity and

Confluence, a global leader in investment data management automation for regulatory, financial and investor reporting, has appointed Gary Casagrande (pictured) as Global Head of Investor Communications & Expense Solutions, a newly created position for the firm. Casagrande has more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry covering mutual fund operations, regulations, project management, and quality control.   In his new role, Casagrande will oversee a line of business charged with defining and implementing the go-to-market strategy for Confluence's global suite of investor communications and expense management solutions, which include financial, marketing and legal reporting, as well as

Mirabaud Securities, the brokerage and corporate finance arm of Swiss financial and banking Group Mirabaud, has enhanced its expertise in the petrochemicals sector with the appointment of David Thomas as oil and gas analyst. Thomas, who joined Mirabaud Securities to cover the oil & gas services sector, has now initiated coverage on seven stocks with a positive view of the sector. His coverage includes Amec Foster Wheeler, Aker Solutions, Petrofrac, Saipem, Subsea 7, Technip and Wood Group. This hire complements Mirabaud’s existing coverage of the E&P sector led by Richard Savage, and the Spanish stocks Repsol and Tecnicas Reunidas covered

Imagineer Technology Group, a provider of technology solutions for investment management firms, has recently been added to Portfolios with Purpose’s (PwP) sponsorship family. PwP is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to raise awareness and support for impactful charities by providing them with a platform to reach new and potential supporters and donors. PwP accomplished this mission by hosting stock selection competitions where each participant competes on behalf of their favourite charity. Through this contest, individuals are able to pool the resources of the group to make a significant impact on many charities, especially those that are small, underfunded and

Catella has appointed Martin Nilsson (pictured) as new co-manager of the award-winning fund, Catella Hedgefond, in addition to his current role as manager of the Catella Nordic Long Short Equity fund. Nilsson will now also join the Catella Hedgefond management team.    Together with Sven Thorén, he will manage one of several independent equity mandates, focusing on the Nordic stock markets. The team associated with Catella Hedgefond is otherwise unchanged, with Ulf Strömsten as the responsible lead manager.   Nilsson has been a fund manager at Catella since May 2015, and has since then successfully managed Catella Nordic Long Short

S W Mitchell Capital, a London-based European equity specialist, has been appointed by Balter Liquid Alternatives to sub-advise a new '40 Act liquid alternatives fund. The Balter European L/S Small Cap Fund, which launched on 31 December, 2015, provides US investors with access to S W Mitchell Capital’s concentrated bottom-up stock picking expertise.   S W Mitchell Capital partner and investment manager Jamie Carter, who has been managing dedicated long/short European smaller company strategies for more than eight years, brings almost two decades of investment experience to stock selection on the new strategy.   The Balter European L/S Small Cap

QIC – a global diversified alternative investment firm – has appointed Eric Belman to the QIC Global Infrastructure team in its newly-established New York office. Belman will lead the firm’s infrastructure origination, investment and execution efforts in North America. QIC is one of Australia’s largest institutional investment managers, offering infrastructure, real estate, private equity, liquid strategies and multi-asset investments.   Belman’s appointment is part of QIC’s geographic expansion strategy and further deepens the firm’s sector expertise in the infrastructure space. This hiring follows the appointment in March 2015 of Giles Tucker in London to develop QIC’s European infrastructure investments efforts