Vistina builds out team and opens London base after Moody’s hire
EXCLUSIVE: After hiring Moody’s executive and ratings expert Jeanine Arnold, private credit advisory firm Vistina is expanding its European footprint

Houlihan hires HarbourVest MD in GP-led secondaries push 
Dan Buffery joins the investment bank to help lead the firm’s North American GP-led secondaries advisory business

Nick Fall returns to Barclays as co-head of US leveraged finance capital markets
Fall, who joined the bank after a five-year stint at Goldman Sachs, officially started in the role this week

Silver Point hires Goldman MD for private credit origination
Michael Cote previously served as a managing director in Goldman Sachs’s leveraged finance business

Cahill’s private credit co-head joins Paul Hastings in New York
Peter Williams, who also has experience as a managing director at KKR, now joins Paul Hasting’s global finance platform

BTG Pactual Global adds another CVC veteran to performing credit platform
Eric Ballantine has been named co-head of research for performing credit at BTG Pactual Global

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader launches with eight CLO partners
EXCLUSIVE: The newly merged law firm now has the largest structured finance legal team in the world, with 40-45 partners globally in leveraged finance and fund finance

King & Spalding adds former Proskauer partner in fund finance biz build out
The law firm has recruited Ron Franklin, who previously served as co-head of the corporate & fund finance group at Proskauer Rose

CLO hiring market heats up ahead of summer break
The CLO hiring market is boiling over – here’s a roundup of the moves we’ve seen over the last couple of weeks

Elmwood appoints new global head of research
The firm creates new role as the CLO manager builds up its European presence, CEO tells Creditflux

RBC’s head of new CLO issuance departs for TD Bank
Christopher Heron has left RBC after more than 20 years at the bank, amid a wave of moves in the CLO arranging space

JPMorgan combines private credit financing and CLO businesses
The bank has announced that former global head of private credit financing James Greenfield will head the new entity, with existing global head of CLO primary Steve Baker set to report to Greenfield

Nearwater hires Morgan Stanley’s key CLO leader
The speciality finance firm has nabbed a senior US investment banker to drive its risk retention and structured credit capital solutions

Barings recruits BofA lynchpin as head of CLO capital markets
Bank of America’s head of US CLO structuring Ankit Aggarwal is leaving to join Barings as its head of CLO capital markets, sources familiar have told Creditflux

Orrick adds four more partners to growing structured finance team
Orrick has grown its structured finance team further with the addition of four new partners to meet “unprecedented” demand for ABS expertise

CalPERS appoints leaders for total portfolio approach investing, private markets
The US pension giant has hired a CPP Investments alum to lead the transition to a new portfolio investment strategy

Barings reorganises leadership team, taps new president
Barings President Eric Lloyd is transitioning to the role of vice chairman

JPMorgan’s Lacey Vigmostad jumps to Soros’ family office
EXCLUSIVE: Vigmostad is joining Soros Fund Management, the family office founded by George Soros, as COO of investment

GreensLedge head of structured credit investments retires
Matthew Natcharian, a CLO and CBO industry veteran with nearly 30 years of experience, announced his exit this week

Millennium building a team as it preps a new CLO management business
EXCLUSIVE: The hedge fund has been on a hiring spree as it prepares to launch a BSL CLO strategy in the US

Mercer appoints head of North American private debt
The investment consultant also named a head of North American infrastructure and head of Americas real estate

Seward & Kissel hires structured credit head as CLOs, private funds converge
Taha Khan joins from Milbank to build out a structured credit practice that will advise on CLOs as well as complex fund finance solutions like CFOs and rated note feeders

Golub shakes up leadership with co-CEOs, co-Presidents appointments
The alternative credit manager will have three co-presidents after promoting Spyro Alexopoulos and hiring two new executives

Morgan Stanley alum joins as SMBC managing director
The new hire will work in securitized products and capital solutions, adding to SMBC’s expanding global securitization capabilities

Hayfin names Goldman Sachs veteran as head of investments
Goldman Sachs veteran Michael Marsh has been hired to the newly created role