CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS July 19, 2011 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Freshfields has appointed corporate partner Julian Long as head of its London corporate practice for a three-year term. Long, who succeeds Mark Rawlinson, newly elected as London managing partner, is an M&A specialist who also runs the law firm’s consumer and healthcare sector group. He recently advised on Petrochina’s venture with Ineos [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS July 19, 2011 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Freshfields has appointed corporate partner Julian Long as head of its London corporate practice for a three-year term. Long, who succeeds Mark Rawlinson, newly elected as London managing partner, is an M&A specialist who also runs the law firm’s consumer and healthcare sector group. He recently advised on Petrochina’s venture with Ineos [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS July 6, 2011 Brooks Macdonald Asset Management The independent private client investment manager with £2.8bn of funds under management has appointed Richard Harley as an intermediary sales manager. Harley previously worked for Hornbuckle Mitchell, where he specialised in SIPP, SSAS and retirement options; prior to that, he worked for Friends Provident as an adviser and AXA Sun Life [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS July 21, 2011 BNY Mellon Michael Cole-Fontayn has been appointed as the new chairman of EMEA at BNY Mellon, retaining his existing responsibilities as chief executive of the depositary receipts division. Cole-Fontayn succeeds Tim Keaney, chief executive of BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, who is relocating to New York. Cole-Fontayn joined BNY Mellon in 1984 and has worked in [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS July 21, 2011 BNY Mellon Michael Cole-Fontayn has been appointed as the new chairman of EMEA at BNY Mellon, retaining his existing responsibilities as chief executive of the depositary receipts division. Cole-Fontayn succeeds Tim Keaney, chief executive of BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, who is relocating to New York. Cole-Fontayn joined BNY Mellon in 1984 and has worked in [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS August 25, 2011 Berenberg Bank The private bank has strengthened its new London private banking operation, launched in January, by appointing Max White as a director to focus on clients in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the North West. White (pictured) joins from Morgan Stanley, where he spent eight years in the private wealth management [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS August 25, 2011 Berenberg Bank The private bank has strengthened its new London private banking operation, launched in January, by appointing Max White as a director to focus on clients in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the North West. White (pictured) joins from Morgan Stanley, where he spent eight years in the private wealth management [...]
New takeover rules set to test the City September 18, 2011 ALMOST two years after Kraft’s unsolicited bid for Cadbury, changes are being introduced today designed to strengthen the hand of companies that find themselves the subject of unwanted advances. But critics fear the changes will further damage the UK’s stalled M&A market, proving onerous for bidders and diverting investment away from the UK economy. Shortly [...]
CLEAN-UP BORIS PUTS HIS HAND IN HIS POCKET August 24, 2011 CONFIDENCE is returning to the streets of London, says Mayor of London Boris Johnson, who yesterday launched the High Street Fund to help small businesses affected by the riots with “immediate cash flow assistance”. “In August, we have been reminded of some truths about London,” said the mayor as he launched the fund at City [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 29, 2011 LSCA Grant Jones, a partner at accountancy firm Cooper Parry, has been appointed as the new president of the London Society of Chartered Accountants, as announced at the body’s recent AGM. The other office holders announced include David Symes, managing director of compliance recruitment solutions, as deputy president and Naima Siddiqi, a director at corporate [...]