Sector developments and company hires

Europe

Accunia has promoted Mads Romild as head of Accunia’s CLO platform. Romild will continue as cio and head all Accunia investment strategies. Andres Garcia Bartolome and Rajiv Thaker are also promoted to senior portfolio managers and will be responsible for the portfolio management of the three existing and all new Accunia CLOs. Romild previously held a position as chief portfolio manager before his promotion. Bartolome was previous a portfolio manager at Accunia whereas Thaker held a position in European leveraged loans and high yield.

LendInvest has expanded its capital markets and treasury team with a batch of new hires, as the firm looks to open a securitisation programme next year for its buy-to-let product. Allister Keller has joined from Charter Court Financial Services as a member of the treasury team, with responsibilities for portfolio reporting and analysis and hedging. Keller worked at Deloitte UK as an assistant manager in securitisation, analytics, modelling and valuation. Taher Miah has joined from Deloitte, where he worked on analytics and the modelling of securitisation transactions. Robin Parker has joined as associate director from Orbit Housing, where he worked on the largest single-tranche bond issue seen in the sector. Victor Pichon has joined from fintech lender Prodigy Finance and Jonathan Gomez has been promoted to the role of treasurer from his previous role as director.

PCS has hired Max Bronzwaer as investor liaison after leaving a role as advisor to the ceo and management board at Obvion.

Pinsent Masons has hired Ian Falconer as a senior consultant. He leaves his position as partner at Freshfields, where he headed the firm’s structured finance business in London.

US

Starwood Capital Group has hired Armin Rothauser who will join the firm in January 2019. Rothauser will lead Starwood’s transportation, infrastructure and energy lending business. He will also join the investment committee of Starwood Property Trust. Prior to joining Starwood, Rothauser was md at Deutsche Bank, where he ran its transportation, infrastructure, energy lending group.

Churchill Asset Management has hired Marissa Short and Robert Lin as members of Churchill’s finance and operations team, with appointments effective immediately. Short joins Churchill as vp of finance. Prior to Churchill, she was a senior manager in the wealth and asset management practice at Ernst and Young, responsible for the planning, implementation and completion of financial statement audits for top tier SEC and non-SEC clients. Lin joins Churchill as vp of operations, having worked most recently at Ivy Hill, where he was responsible for surveillance, analytics and financial modeling of CLOs, leveraged facilities and a public business development company.