City Moves for 20 March 2015 | Who’s switching jobs March 19, 2015 Baker Tilly The audit, tax, and accountancy firm has appointed Rowan Williams as head of its professional services group. She joined Baker Tilly in 2009, and has led its London business advisory team and its professional services group in London and the South. Old Mutual Wealth Mary-Anne McIntyre has been appointed chief distribution officer at [...]
City Moves for 20 January 2015 | Who’s switching jobs January 19, 2015 HSBC David Phythian has been appointed head of corporate real estate for the bank in the UK. He joined HSBC in 2006 and was head of its London corporate real estate office. Phythian has also held roles at UCB Bank, the United Bank of Kuwait, and a number of private property companies. Square Mile Investment [...]
Sports Direct shares drop with M&A chief’s sudden exit February 17, 2015 SPORTS Direct’s share price fell more than four per cent in morning trading yesterday after it emerged that its mergers and acquisitions boss Jeff Blue was leaving the retailer. Blue, a former Merril Lynch banker, was hired two years ago to spearhead takeover deals for Mike Ashley’s high street giant. He was also standing in [...]
Bye-bye Tech City? Spiralling office rents in Shoreditch’s Silicon Roundabout will push tech startups out of London April 17, 2015 Technology firms are being forced to consider relocating outside of London by the spiralling costs of renting office space in the capital and the home of tech in Shoreditch. A quarter of London’s tech firms have considered a move away from the capital entirely, while more than two in five lack confidence in the city’s [...]
Vyta Du Roc looks the value call in wide-open Neptune March 10, 2015 ANOTHER Cheltenham Festival novice hurdle and another Willie Mullins-trained favourite. Nichols Canyon is a warm order to land this afternoon’s opening Neptune Novices’ Hurdle (1.30pm) and follow in the hoofprints of Douvan, yesterday’s hugely impressive Sky Bet Supreme Novices winner. The five-year-old son of Authorized looked very good when quickening up smartly from the front [...]
City Moves for 10 March 2015 | Who’s switching jobs March 9, 2015 New Bridge Street The executive remuneration specialist has appointed Drew Matthews as partner. He joins from Tesco, where he was group reward director for the past three years. Matthews has also held consultancy roles at PwC, Deloitte, and Stern Stewart. Eaton Vance Management International David Morley has been appointed business development director, UK institutional at [...]
M&A comeback this year is led by mega-deals November 23, 2014 More than $2.5 trillion (£1.6 trillion) worth of mergers and acquisition (M&A) deals have been announced so far this year. The figure marks a 30 per cent increase on last year’s $1.9 trillion and is also set to be the best year for M&A deals since 2007, according to data released today by financial services [...]
City Moves for 26 February 2015 | Who’s switching jobs February 25, 2015 Deloitte The business advisory firm has appointed Jurga McCluskey as partner and head of its UK immigration practice. She joins from PwC Legal, where she was head of private clients and the lead on a number of key corporate clients. McCluskey has also worked at Fragomen. BlackRock Thomas Müller has been appointed managing director and [...]
City Moves for 11 February 2015 | Who’s switching jobs February 10, 2015 Close Brothers James Mallinson has been appointed as director of Family Business, a role created as part of the asset manager’s expansion of its initiative to support family businesses. Mallinson has 10 years’ experience and was at In Partnership and St. James’s Place before Close Brothers. easyProperty.com The online property platform has appointed Robin Wilson [...]
China-maker Wedgwood is put up for sale January 18, 2015 WATERFORD Wedgwood, the 250-year-old luxury china and glassware maker, has been put up for sale by its owners, six years after being rescued from the brink of collapse. KPS Capital Partners, the US private equity firm, has hired bankers at Goldman Sachs to find a buyer for WWRD, the owner of the Waterford, Wedgwood, Royal [...]