Sector developments and company hires

Europe

Palamon has hired Aqib Kadar as director of tax and structured finance. Kadar was previously at PwC where he was a director in M&A tax.

Global

Värde Partners has appointed Elena Lieskovska and Haseeb Malik to partner, and promoted Brad Bauer to deputy cio. Based in London and Singapore respectively, Lieskovska is head of European financial services and Malik is head of Asia corporate and traded credit. In addition to his role as deputy cio, Bauer is a partner and global head of private debt, transportation and energy. He will relocate from Minneapolis to London in the coming months.

ILS

GC Securities has named Brendon Roche svp, based in Dublin. He was previously global leader of the Marsh Captive Solutions Centre of Excellence for ILS and SPV management services.

US

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has recruited partner Elizabeth Frohlich to its business trial practice group in San Francisco. She was most recently a partner at Morgan Lewis and represents banks and securities broker-dealers in complex civil and criminal actions in federal and state courts and arbitrations, and is particularly experienced with securitisation litigation.