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Law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman has promoted five lawyers across its British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Hong Kong and Singapore offices and corporate, litigation and insurance practices to partner status.
Richard Evans (pictured) of Conyers’ BVI litigation department has over 15 years’ experience in commercial litigation and all contentious aspects of commercial and insolvency law. He has appeared as lead counsel in a number of leading decisions in BVI.
Evans specialises in obtaining and securing the enforcement of all forms of urgent interim relief, shareholders’ and connected disputes, and disputed debt/distressed funds matters.
Jeffrey Elkinson JP of Conyers’ Bermuda litigation
Odyssey Investment Management, an investment adviser based in New York City, has appointed Mikhail Filimonov as chief investment officer.
Odyssey will manage several funds specialising in global credit strategies, including a fund that focuses on special situations in the credit markets globally and another that specifically focuses on Indian convertible bonds.
“We are delighted to have Mikhail join us and we welcome his vast industry expertise,” says founding partner Jayavardhan Diwan.
Key members of the Odyssey team have worked together previously, including Diwan and Filimonov, as well as Christian Picot who is chief operating officer and Diana Imperatore
Mount Lucas Management, a global macro investment manager, has hired Wall Street economist Robert J. Barbera as chief economist.
Barbera is accompanied by his long-time associate Jackie Kadre, who has been named economist at the firm.
Barbera has spent the last 28 years as a y respected Wall Street economist, and has gained a wide institutional following.
He is a frequent guest on CNBC, and is regularly quoted in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Barbera is former managing director and chief economist at Investment Technology Group, a brokerage and investment technology firm, where he was responsible
Prisma Capital Partners, an alternative investment manager providing multi-manager hedge fund solutions, has appointed Anne Wynne as general counsel and James Welch as managing director and member of the firm’s portfolio management group.
Wynne will assume the role of in-house counsel at Prisma and coordinate all legal activities on behalf of the firm.
Welch will focus on product development and coordinate the response of the firm to enquiries from institutional clients who seek a variety of hedged equity and credit strategies.
“Consistent with our business model, we continue to add senior team members with significant track records and expertise in
Law firm Bingham McCutchen has expanded its investment management group to Hong Kong with the addition of Anne-Marie Godfrey as partner.
Godfrey has experience advising investment managers in Asia on the establishment and regulation of hedge funds, mutual funds and private equity funds.
She advises investment advisers, fund administrators, trustees and other fund service providers on investment fund-related issues.
"Anne-Marie will add significant value to our US fund clients with ties to Asia," says Roger Joseph, head of Bingham’s investment management group and co-leader of the financial services area. "Her arrival underscores the critical role Asia plays in Bingham’s growth
Prologue Capital, an alternative investment firm that manages a discretionary fixed income strategy, has hired Manny Mifsud as a portfolio manager focusing on foreign exchange trading.
Mifsud works in the firm’s London office and reports to founding partners David Lofthouse and Graham Walsh.
“Manny’s knowledge and experience in FX will be a significant addition to the firm,” says Lofthouse. “FX is an important asset class both in its own right and also in its impact on the fixed income markets.”
Mifsud was most recently head of trading at Nylon Capital and focused on FX strategies. Prior to joining
ING’s global securities finance team has hired Colin Bugler to head its new synthetic portfolio solutions team, reporting to Richard Pryce, head of equity lending and repo.
The creation of the synthetic portfolio solutions team, which incorporates the contracts for difference offering, is part of ING’s growth plan for its global securities finance business.
Bugler’s remit will be to enhance ING’s position as a provider of securities financing products to hedge funds, as well as expanding the range of products offered.
“Hedge funds are seeking greater credit diversification among their providers of both traditional prime brokerage and synthetic products. In
Equinox Capital Markets, the alternative investment marketing organisation, has appointed Daniel Gormont as an institutional sales associate.
Gormont joins a team dedicated to marketing, sales and business development solutions for alternative investment managers both in the US and internationally.
Gormont will be responsible for marketing a select group of hedge funds, commodity trading advisors, and other specialised asset managers including Equinox Fund Management, an affiliated company, to a variety of US institutions.
John Gallagher, president of Equinox Capital Markets, says: "We are building out a very able, accomplished and competitive capital raising team. Dan Gormont’s appointment substantially increases our reach
Financial services firm Brown Brothers Harriman has expanded its EMEA securities lending team with the addition of four senior executives.
David Lewis, Jacqueline Waller, Céline Emond and Samantha Peppiatt have joined BBH’s team to focus on relationship management and business development activities across the EMEA region.
"The shift in beneficial owner sentiment towards customised, intrinsic value lending programs is leading to significant new business for our program across regions. Our EMEA business in particular has grown significantly in recent months as beneficial owners move into our program from exclusive arrangements and other agent lending programs," says Keith Haberlin, head
Qbasis Invest, the Liechtenstein-based managed futures specialist, is expanding its London marketing operations with the appointment of Alistair Evans as director sales, UK.
Evans has eight years’ experience in the alternatives sector.
Most recently, he was partner and co-founder of GLS, a hedge fund marketing business.
Prior to that he worked at UBS and Merrill Lynch, where he focused on the intermediary and wealth manager market.
He began his career in 2002 at the US investment bank Laidlaw and then moved to the ECU Group, a former subsidiary of ED&F Man.
Evans will concentrate on promoting Qbasis’ new exchange-traded fund,
