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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has promoted eight attorneys to the partnership, effective 1 January 2014.
Rob Boller is in the firm’s litigation practice. He represents companies, partnerships and individuals in a variety of litigation and criminal/regulatory matters, with a particular focus on disputes arising out of complex financial transactions. He also counsels creditors and creditors’ committees in litigation arising out of bankruptcy.
Brian Carney is in the firm’s litigation practice in New York. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation matters in bankruptcy court, federal district court and New York state courts, especially matters involving private equity funds,
Alternative investment management firm Eclipse Capital Management has appointed Nigel Ekern as managing director to lead the firm’s business development efforts.
Eclipse Capital's chief executive and founder Tom Moller says: "This is an exciting time for Eclipse Capital with the addition of Nigel to our senior management team. Nigel's breadth of experience delivering investment solutions to institutional clients is a key element of Eclipse Capital's business development plans. We are very optimistic about the growth of Eclipse Capital in the coming years and are looking to build upon our core strengths to expand our investor base and grow assets."
SSARIS Advisors, an affiliate of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), has appointed Paul Lucek as chief executive, effective 1 January 2014.
Lucek (pictured) succeeds Mark Rosenberg, who will relinquish his role as CEO at the end of this year.
In addition to the role of CEO, Lucek will maintain his current responsibilities as chief investment officer of SSARIS’ hedge fund group.
Rob Covino has been named president of SSARIS, in addition to his existing responsibilities as head of business development.
Along with Scott Powers, SSgA president and CEO, Rosenberg will stay on as co-chairman of the SSARIS board
Ridge Road Partners, a private investment partnership focused on long-run value creation, has appointed former Ward Ferry Management partner and fund manager Michael Mager as a partner of the firm.
In his new role, Mager will help develop Ridge Road’s public market efforts in addition to working on the firm’s existing private investments. He will be based in New York.
Mager joins Ridge Road’s managing partners – hedge fund veteran Adam Jiwan and entrepreneur Brian Norton – who formed the partnership in October 2012.
Ridge Road focuses on long-run value creation by acquiring and developing private companies and
Ingenious, the UK alternative investment and advisory group, has strengthened its clean energy division with five new appointments, including Helen Wade as a senior investment director.
In addition, the firm has appointed one investment director, one investment manager and two investment associates. The appointments bring Ingenious Clean Energy’s team of investment professionals to 12, with over 50 years’ renewables and energy efficiency experience between them.
Ingenious is one of the fastest growing companies in the UK, having raised and deployed over GBP8bn in alternative investment sectors since 1998.
Ingenious Clean Energy was established in 2010 to enable Ingenious clients
AllianceBernstein, a global investment management firm with USD447bn in assets under management, has appointed Christine Johnson as senior vice president – head of alternatives product management.
In this newly created role, Johnson will join AllianceBernstein's growing alternatives team and collaborate with senior investment and distribution executives to drive the growth of the firm's alternatives business.
Her primary responsibilities will be to shape a strategic vision and brand for the platform, focus the team on key business opportunities, and partner with distribution channels to position products and support client engagement.
Johnson will report to Steven Eisenberg, chief operating officer
Altegris, a provider of alternative investments, has named Jack L Rivkin as chief investment officer.
Rivkin will oversee the firm's research and investments group and will be a member of the Altegris investment committee.
He will also have overall responsibility for identifying, selecting and monitoring fund managers across multiple investment disciplines and will oversee asset allocation and research for Altegris products. He will be a key representative of Altegris in the investment community.
Rivkin has held senior roles in the investment industry with Neuberger Berman, Citigroup Investments, and PaineWebber, among others. His managerial achievements have been featured in
The Hedge Fund Association (HFA) has appointed Christina Bodden and Colin Nicholson as co-directors of the association’s Cayman Islands Chapter.
These hedge fund industry professionals have been selected to direct the HFA’s local member events and educational programmes, and to contribute to the organisation’s global mission of increasing transparency, accelerating business and professional development, and fostering greater trust in alternative investments.


Bodden is a partner in the investment funds group of international law firm Maples and Calder. She specialises in the structuring of private equity funds and advising on the related downstream transactions. Bodden also works extensively with major
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) and the London Metal Exchange (LME) have formed the board of LME Clear, the LME's self-clearing platform currently in development.
LME Clear is on track to launch, as planned, on 22 September 2014.
The board will be comprised of five independent non-executive directors and four executive board members.
The independent non-executive directors will be Richard Thornhill, chairman; John Harrison; Marye Humphery; Nat le Roux; and Marco Strimer.
The executive directors will be Trevor Spanner, chief executive of LME Clear; Gerald Greiner, HKEx head of global clearing; Garry Jones, chief executive of
Carne Group has named Michelle Wilson-Clarke as the latest addition to its team of Cayman Islands fund directors.
Carne’s Cayman Islands office now has seven independent fund directors.
Wilson-Clarke joins Carne from Intertrust Fund Services (Cayman) Limited.
Prior to that she was with Walkers Fund Services (WFS), a division of offshore law firm Walkers, which was acquired in 2012 by the Intertrust Group, where she was instrumental in the growth and development of the fiduciary services team. She began her financial services career with Wellington Management Company n Boston, Massachusetts.
At Wellington, Wilson-Clarke was vice president and relationship
