CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 18, 2012 Duncan Lawrie Jane Parry has been appointed to the UK board of Duncan Lawrie Private Bank. She joined the business a year ago and is now director, head of marketing and new business development. Parry started her banking career at Barclays, where she became marketing director of Premier banking in 2006. She has also held [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 31, 2012 Brooks Macdonald Funds The fund management firm has appointed Christine Tacon as chairman of UK Farming, its new asset-backed UK farming business. Tacon was managing director of Co-operative Farms from 2000 to December 2011, and an executive board member of Co-operative Food Retail. UK Farming targets investment in existing arable farmland. Kleinwort Benson Valentina Tacchino [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 6, 2012 Winston & Strawn Justin McClelland has joined the law firm from Milband as a partner in its global commercial litigation practice. He started his legal career at Slaughter & May, and previously served in Army Legal Services, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was appointed a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in 1998. PIMCO [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 8, 2012 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 [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 7, 2012 Squire Sanders The legal practice has promoted senior associate Gareth Timms to its global partnership. Timms is a finance litigation specialist, and his promotion took effect on 1 May. He joined the firm in 2005 and has over twelve years of experience working for asset based lenders. Bridgepoint The private equity firm has announced the [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS March 18, 2012 Carey Olsen The leading legal services provider, with offices in London and the Channel Islands, has announced that Elaine Gray is joining its Guernsey litigation and dispute resolution group. Gray is the second senior level appointment to the department in less than a year, following the arrival of contentious trust specialist Michael McAuley in July [...]
WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 25, 2012 Drivers Jonas Deloitte The provider of property consultancy services has announced that Jeremy Castle has joined as director in its planning team. Castle most recently spent four years leading planning strategy at Battersea Power Station as planning director of Treasury Holdings. He has also previously worked at Legal & General. In addition, Nigel Hawkey arrives [...]
Deutsche Bank misses profit forecast April 26, 2012 Deutsche Bank missed market expectations for profits in the first quarter as Germany’s biggest bank was hit by one-off charges and weak markets which hurt earnings from trading and asset management. Group pretax profit of 1.9bn euros, came in below the 3 billion euros in the year-earlier period and the 2.4bn euro forecast in a [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS February 20, 2012 Rowanmoor Pensions Rowanmoor Pensions, the independent small self-administered scheme provider and self-invested personal pensions operator, has appointed Martin Stead as a regulated consultant in its consultancy team. Stead joins from AXA Wealth, where he was a financial planning manager in the company’s Bancassurance division. Prior to AXA Wealth, Stead was a corporate relationship manager at [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS February 6, 2012 Deloitte Mark Williams has been appointed as a partner in Deloitte’s economic consulting practice. Williams, who joins Deloitte from the World Bank, will join a team of more than 30 in Deloitte’s economic consulting practice, where he will focus on telecoms clients. He worked at the World Bank for five years, where he led the [...]