UPDATE 1-MOVES-DLA Piper, SIFMA, Moelis, Credit Suisse, others
May 27 (Reuters) - The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Wednesday. To inform us of other job changes, e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.
DLA PIPER
DLA Piper, the law firm, hired H. Jeffrey Schwartz as chair of the U.S. restructuring group. He previously worked at Dechert LLP, where he was co-leader of the global business restructuring and reorganization practice group.
SECURITIES INDUSTRY AND FINANCIAL MARKETS ASSOCIATION
SIFMA named Andrew DeSouza manager of global communications. He joined from the U.S. Treasury Department, where he worked in public affairs.
MOELIS & CO
Moelis & Co, an investment bank specializing in mergers, said Stuart Goldstein will join in June as a managing director, based in Los Angeles. Goldstein most recently worked at Citigroup Inc (C.N), where he was a managing director and head of West Coast technology investment banking.
CREDIT SUISSE GROUP INC (CSGN.VX)
Switzerland's second-largest bank said a top UBS AG (UBSN.VX) prime brokerage banker, Matt Pecot, will join the bank as head of prime services for Asia-Pacific, based in Hong Kong. Since 2007, Pecot was the Americas head of prime brokerage services for UBS. [ID:nHKG290207]
STANDARD CHARTERED PLC (STAN.L)
The bank appointed Brent Eastburg as its global head of credit trading. Eastburg, most recently a managing partner of the credit hedge fund portfolio at Ravenscourt Capital Partners LLP, will be based in Singapore.
J O HAMBRO INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
J.O. Hambro, a Credit Suisse-owned fund manager, said its chief executive of 15 years, Andrew Steel, is leaving the company for personal reasons. It named Hugh Grootenhuis, lately the head of all the funds business, as interim CEO. (Compiled by Archana Shankar in Bangalore)
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