Company hires and sector developments

Europe

Latham & Watkins has recruited Jeremiah Wagner as a partner in its finance department, based in London. Wagner’s practice focuses on advising banks, private equity funds, asset managers, insurance companies and pension funds on a variety of complex structured finance, securitisation and derivatives transactions. He joins the firm from Cadwalader’s London office, where he was a partner.

PACE appointment

Residential PACE financing provider Energy Efficient Equity (E3) has appointed Rasool Alizadeh as cfo. Alizadeh has more than 15 years of experience in providing and facilitating debt and equity liquidity planning to specialty finance platforms. Prior to joining E3, he was treasurer and head of capital markets at Ygrene Energy Fund, where he jumpstarted that company’s securitisation platform and managed all liquidity needs, raising over US$1.5bn in debt and equity. Prior to this, Alizadeh spent time at SMBC Nikko Securities, RBC Capital Markets and S&P, working in structured products across multiple asset classes and clients.  

USA

McGuireWoods has hired Margaret Seurynck, who brings more than 15 years of experience advising clients, including national and multinational banks and private equity firms, in complex financings. Seurynck, who joins the firm’s Chicago office, represents lenders and borrowers in transactions such as secured and unsecured loans, asset-based and cash flow loans, and single-bank and syndicated credit facilities. She also handles structured finance arrangements, including structured note tax credit finance transactions and commercial paper programs. She comes to McGuireWoods from Jones Day, following the January addition of highly regarded finance partner Chris Molen, who joined McGuireWoods in Atlanta.

Napier Park Global Capital has named Joseph Lane vice-chairman and a member of the firm’s management committee. Lane is currently an md in the firm’s real assets group, having joined Napier Park’s private equity group as an md in July 2015. He previously held a number of executive roles in the commercial finance sector and also co-founded Sinter Partners.