CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS
Jones Lang LaSalle
The property-focused financial and professional services firm has appointed James Brown from Grosvenor as its new head of retail research and consultancy for the EMEA region.
Brown is currently UK director of research at Grosvenor, where he is responsible for property market forecasting and analysis of demand, supply and values, local market and catchment and retail performance. He was previously head of retail research at DTZ and Donaldsons.
Ernst & Young
Dai Bedford and Keith MacDonald have been appointed as partners in the accountancy firm’s EMEIA performance improvement practice.
Both join from Capco. Bedford will be responsible for building and leading the banking and capital markets operations in the division, while MacDonald will help build up the operations and customer side.
In addition, Mark Dynes and Kieran Mullaley have also joined the practice as directors. Mullaley was also from Capco, while Dynes worked as a director in financial services strategy consulting at Deloitte.
Mizuho International
Mizuho’s London-based securities and investment banking arm has hired Shu Yang, Elliot Blair and James Godfrey to its fixed income business.
Yang has become a government rates trader, having previously worked for Lehman Brothers. Blair joins in August as a euro SSA trader from Incapital Europe, while Godfrey will join the team in September as a credit trader from Daiwa Capital Markets.
UniCredit Group
The German banking group has appointed Peter Schaede as head of German equity capital markets, effective immediately.
Schaede joined the firm in 2005 as global head of execution and documentation in the equity capital markets team. Prior to that, he had worked as a capital markets lawyer at Clifford Chance.
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain
The City law firm has hired intellectual property partner Clive Thorne from its rival Arnold & Porter.
Thorne, who joins RPC’s IP, technology and outsourcing group, has over 30 years of legal experience. He joined Arnold & Porter as a partner in 2004 after 18 years as a partner at Denton Wilde Sapte in London.
Talaris
The cash management solutions firm has appointed a new chief executive in the form of Tim Robinson.
Robinson, 46, was most recently chief executive of private equity-backed pensions and financial services group Xafinity. He started his career at IBM, where he spent 11 years progressing through the ranks to director in the UK.
At Talaris, he replaces Tracey Graham, who has led the business since September 2005, including the Carlyle-backed management buyout from De La Rue.