People moves and key promotions in securitisation

This week’s roundup of securitisation job swaps sees Western Alliance Trust Company appointing a new president and ceo with a background in CLOs, levered loans and securities custody. Elsewhere, Aon has hired an executive md of capital advisory, while Eversheds Sutherland has snapped up a Clifford Chance veteran as a capital-markets-focused partner.

Western Alliance Trust has promoted md Jocelyn Lynch to president and ceo, based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. In her new role, she will be responsible for overseeing overall strategy and operations, and focus on CLO trustee, levered loan and securities custody strategies.

Lynch joined the business in early 2022 after a brief stint as senior vp at Computershare. She previously spent seven years focusing on the CLO market at Wells Fargo and 14 years working across a number of areas at BNY Mellon.

Meanwhile, Aon has hired Will Allen as executive md of capital advisory within its reinsurance solutions division. Based in London, he will report to the firm’s head of capital advisory, Kelly Superczynski.

Allen will be responsible for sourcing capital to support Lloyd’s of London programmes, and will work alongside the FAL team in support of risk transfer and capital optimisation programmes. He leaves his role as ceo of London Innovation Underwriters, a company he founded in mid 2023 to invest in the Lloyd’s market, and has previously worked at Macquarie Group, KBW, Fox Pitt Kelton and Bear Stearns.

Eversheds Sutherland has appointed Clifford Chance’s Mohsin Abbasi as a capital-markets-focused partner in its Dubai office. He will focus on transactions spanning debt capital markets and Islamic finance.

Abbasi has a background in structured products, conventional bonds, sukuk, liability management exercises, regulatory capital and ESG issuances. He leaves his role as senior associate at Clifford Chance after 13 years working in the firm’s London and Dubai offices. 

MetLife Investment Management’s Jennifer Potenta has joined Golub Capital as md in its New York office, to head up its newly launched insurance solutions team (SCI 9 May). She joins the firm after six years with MetLife Investment Management, where she was most recently senior md and global head of private fixed income and alternatives. 

Potenta also previously spent nine and a half years at MetLife, but left in 2017 to join New York Life Insurance Company in the role of senior director and head of international focusing on private capital investors. The launch of the team forms part of the firm’s plan to expand its investor partners group, which is focused on supporting the “specialised investment needs of different investor segments”, according to a statement issued by Golub.

Allen & Overy partner Daniel Shurman has left the firm to take up a new role as partner in Clifford Chance’s equity derivatives and structured products team. The announcement earlier this week came just six days after London-based A&O and New York firm Shearman & Sterling announced they had completed their merger and relaunch as A&O Shearman. Shurman had been with A&O since 1999. 

Clyde & Co has appointed Elizabeth Evans from K&L Gates as a partner in its global aviation practice group, based in its New York office. She leaves her role as partner at K&L Gates after four and a half years with the firm, and previously held partner positions at Reed Smith, Dentons, Jones Day, and Weil Gotshal & Manges.

Evans’s expertise spans aviation, project, transportation and aerospace finance. She has worked across transactions including structured finance, leveraged leasing, syndicated loans and both private and public offerings of debt and equity.

Luxembourg-based Maples and Calder has hired AKD Benelux partner Yann Hilpert as partner and co-head of its finance practice. Hilpert focuses on leveraged finance, secured lending transactions, fund finance, debt capital market, securitisation and asset finance. He leaves AKD Benelux after three years with the firm, having previously held senior positions at DCL Avocats, ContourGlobal and Dentons.

And finally, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank has named Francesca Revelli md, senior head - securitisation and fund finance, based in Abu Dhabi. She was previously senior director - private credit markets at Citi in London, having joined the firm as associate - ABS structuring in May 2004.

Kenny Wastell, Corinne Smith