CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS
Barclays
Sharon Quinlan has been appointed head of structured property, London within Barclays’s debt finance team. She joins from Bank of Ireland, where she was head of business banking and responsible for running its UK commercial banking franchise. She takes over from Richard Payne, who will stay on as a consultant.
PMB Holdings
Ed Jones has been promoted to chief executive of the commercial real estate and leisure investment group. Peter Beckwith, who founded the company in 1992, will continue to take an active role in the firm, serving as executive chairman of the board. Jones joined PMB in 2000 and has been responsible for its UK investment and development business since 2002.
Signia Wealth
The wealth management firm has appointed Ameet Patel as head of alternative investments. He will be based in Signia’s London office and report to chief information officer Gautam Batra. Patel was previously a managing director at AlphaOne Partners and spent several years as an equity analyst in the telecoms team at Lehman Brothers.
Aviva Investors
Elysia Tse has been appointed senior vice president strategy and research of Aviva Investment’s Asia Pacific real estate business. Tse joins the company from the real estate equity group at BlackRock, where she held the post of director of research and strategy, real estate equity. She has also worked in the research and strategy teams at Citigroup Property Investors and at LaSalle Investment Management.
Liberum Capital
The independent investment bank has hired Lawrence Sugarman as telecoms analyst, effective yesterday. He joins from RBS, where he has headed up its European telecoms research team since March 2011. Sugarman previously acted as director and head of telecoms at ING from 2009. He has held similar positions at Stoy Hayward and Dresdner Kleinwort.
FTI Consulting
The business advisory firm has hired Dario Garcia to its European tax services group as a senior managing director. Garcia was previously at Barclays, where he was managing director with responsibility for indirect tax and transfer pricing. He also spent 14 years at Ernst & Young, 10 of which were as an indirect tax partner.
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain
The City law firm has hired disputes partner Simon Hart into its banking litigation team. He joins from Reed Smith, where he has been a partner since 2005. Hart originally qualified at Wilde Sapte in 1996 and has since specialised in banking disputes, financial markets litigation and regulatory investigations.