City Moves for 13 June 2014 | Who’s switching jobs June 12, 2014 Investec Asset Finance Jane Mantell has been appointed head of portfolio risk at the asset finance provider. She joins from Insight Plus, the consultancy, where she has worked since 2007. Mantell previously spent nine years with Foxreed Consulting. UBS Michael Hafner has been appointed head of oil and gas, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) [...]
City Moves for 02 June 2014 | Who’s switching jobs June 2, 2014 Keystone Law Robert Harvey has joined the law firm’s dispute resolution team. He is a former partner at Addleshaw Goddard, and has particular experience running commercial litigation and white collar crime investigations for high net worth individuals. Lloyds Bank Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking has appointed David Bee to the newly-created position of managing director, head [...]
City Moves for 23 May 2014 | Who’s switching jobs May 22, 2014 Addleshaw Goddard The law firm has announced the election of John Joyce as a managing partner. He specialises in corporate restructuring. Joyce has been a partner since 1998, and was most recently head of business support and restructuring. Euler Hermes Bonding The surety bond provider has appointed Adam Hinc as a senior underwriter in its [...]
City Moves for 06 May 2014 | Who’s switching jobs May 5, 2014 Squire Sanders The law firm has hired Mark Gleeson, formerly head of the data and information practice at Addleshaw Goddard, as a partner in the firm’s global intellectual property and technology practice. Gleeson, formerly head of data protection for Barclaycard, has more than 15 years’ experience within the financial services industry, including time at consulting [...]
City Moves for 03 April 2014 | Who’s switching jobs April 2, 2014 Waverton Investment Management The investment management firm has appointed Ian Enslin to its charities team. He joins from Newton Asset Management, and has previously worked at Barings, Invesco and Norwich Union. City Financial The asset management business has hired Mark Pearson as marketing director. He was formerly head of investment strategy and communications at Aegon [...]
City Moves for 07 March 2014 | Who’s switching jobs March 6, 2014 London Offshore Consultants The marine and offshore energy consultancy has named Robin Bidwell as its chairman. He previously built and led global environmental advisory firm Environmental Resources Management. T Rowe Price Peter Hunt has been appointed vice president for UK and Ireland institutional business at the asset management firm. He was formerly a partner at TT International. Before [...]
Rathbones buys £2.8bn private client managers April 1, 2014 RATHBONE Brothers bolstered its private banking business yesterday after spending around £57m on two acquisitions, increasing its assets under management by £2.8bn. The upmarket wealth manager has agreed to buy rival fund manager Jupiter’s private client and charity investment management business for £43.1m, assuming all of its assets are moved over. It has also snapped [...]
City Moves for 18 February 2014 | Who’s switching jobs February 17, 2014 Morrison & Foerster The law firm has announced the appointment of Philip Slater as a partner in its financial transactions group. He joins from Reed Smith, where he led its acquisition and leveraged finance practice in London. Prior to that, Slater was a partner at Addleshaw Goddard. Santander Corporate & Commercial Charles Garfit has been appointed head [...]
Investment into Europe property hits record high March 10, 2014 INVESTORS from outside of Europe spent a record €36bn (£30bn) on European real estate last year, with US, Asian and Middle Eastern investors leading the charge. According to research released today by DTZ at Mipim, the property’s industry annual conference in Cannes, this represented a 26 per cent share of total volumes invested across the [...]
Boss of Speedy Hire quits after £5m hole found November 28, 2013 BRITISH construction equipment provider Speedy Hire has said its chief executive will step down and that the finance director of its international unit has been suspended after it uncovered accounting irregularities. The company said yesterday that, based on the information it had available, control processes within its international division had been repeatedly and deliberately circumvented. [...]