Larch Lane Advisors, a member company of Old Mutual Asset Management, has appointed Stephen A. McShea as general counsel.

Combinatorics Capital, a New York-based global macro hedge fund manager, has appointed Robert W. Jenkins as chief executive and managing partner.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has relocated partner Robert M. Griffin to Abu Dhabi to head the firm’s Middle East investment funds practice. 

Prisma Capital Partners has appointed John Stimpson as one of the managing directors in its marketing group, bringing the senior members of that team to four people.

Four Capital Partners has hired Rajesh Tanna as a senior fund manager to work within its new European equity business.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has appointed Michael B. DeNoma as a senior adviser.

Nick Tranter has joined Execution as head of derivatives to lead the development of the firm’s institutional and hedge fund derivatives business. He will work with Garreth Hodgson, head of European equities, and will sit on the firm’s European management committee.   Tranter, who has nearly 20 years of experience of working in the derivatives markets, has spent the last 18 months at BNP Paribas as pan-European head of equity and derivatives flow sales. For more than a decade prior to that he worked at Morgan Stanley, where he was a founder and later managing director in charge of its

SecFinex, a NYSE Euronext company and European marketplace for securities finance, has strengthened its London team with the addition of Jonathan Lombardo as executive director, sales.

GLG Partners, the US-listed asset manager, has appointed Javier Velasquez as head of European industrial investments and Carl Esprey and Tim Medland as co-heads of European basic resources

ThermoEnergy, a company engaged in the worldwide commercialization of patented and proprietary municipal and industrial wastewater treatment and power generation technologies, has appoi