People moves and key promotions in securitisation

This week’s roundup of securitisation job swaps sees Fitch Ratings appointing a successor to outgoing BRM head for structured finance Douglas Murray. Elsewhere, Barings has hired a BlackRock director to lead European real estate debt portfolio management, while King & Spalding has rehired two structured finance partners who left the firm for Milbank last year.

Fitch Ratings has promoted Anjali Sharma to global business and relationship management (BRM) head for structured finance, taking over from the retiring Douglas Murray. Sharma is based in the ratings agency’s London office and will assume the role from the start of July, reporting to Mark Oline, global BRM head.

Sharma joined Fitch 11 years ago and is promoted from global BRM head of US public finance, international public finance and global infrastructure. Prior to joining Fitch she spent 17 years working in leveraged finance, corporate banking and loan syndication at banks including National Australia Bank, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Credit Lyonnais Securities and HSBC.

Meanwhile, Barings has hired BlackRock director Rupert Gill to head up portfolio management for European real estate debt. Gill will be based in London and report to Nasir Alamgir, head of US and European real estate debt. He leaves his role as head of European real estate debt at BlackRock after almost seven year with the firm, and previously worked at Hatfield Philips International and Lloyds Banking Group.

Gill will be responsible for the management of the European real estate debt portfolio management group; oversee strategy development and execution of investment solutions; and sit on the European real estate debt investment and valuation committees.

King & Spalding has rehired structured finance partners, Katie Weiss and Martin Eid, following the departure of the Urschel-Weiss-Eid group for Milbank last year (SCI 24 April 2023). The departures come after fellow partner Michael Urschel, who moved from King & Spalding with Weiss and Eid last year, also recently left Milbank for Kirkland & Ellis to establish a new borrower-side practice (SCI 7 June). Weiss and Eid will return to King & Spalding in its finance and restructure practice in New York, and will continue their lender-side advisory on esoteric transactions and private credit.

Greystone has hired Fannie Mae veteran William Iacobucci as senior director for real estate lending, based in Atlanta. He will report to senior mds Charlie Mentzer and Brad Waite. Iacobucci leaves his role as vice president of multifamily structured finance after 12 years with Fannie Mae. He will be responsible for leading Greystone’s lending activity in student housing finance and structured finance.

Biagio Giacalone has joined Christofferson Robb & Company as ceo of the firm’s Italian operations. Based in Milan, Giacalone will lead CRC’s investing initiatives in Italy, focusing on growth and value creation. With over 30 years of experience in structured finance and credit portfolio management, he was previously the head of the active credit portfolio steering department at Intesa Sanpaolo, managing credit portfolios for capital optimisation purposes and overseeing the group’s NPL plan.

ING has promoted Jordan Batchelor to global head of asset securitisation. He has relocated to the Netherlands, having spent the last four and a half years in Singapore as a director and then md, head of asset securitisation Asia Pacific. Before joining ING in January 2020, Batchelor was a director, structured capital markets at ANZ in Sydney.

Enrica Landolfi has joined P&G Alternative Investments as senior advisor for funds development, based in Rome. She was formerly head of ABS origination for continental Europe and structured finance for Italy at HSBC, which she joined in May 2005. Before that, Landolfi worked in DCM and structured finance origination at UBM.

Tramontana Asset Management has recruited Sergio Ravich Calafell as md, focusing on further developing the firm’s energy transition and sustainable finance franchise. He has previously worked at UniCredit as an md, Bear Stearns as senior md and EMEA head of credit structuring and marketing, and Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Bankers Trust in fixed income and derivatives roles.

Lendable has hired structured finance banker Sharad Prakash as head of Asia, fintech investments, based in Singapore. He previously led Citi’s private credit markets and solutions team in Asia, having worked in credit products and solutions roles at JPMorgan and Barclays before that.

And finally, Natixis Investment Managers subsidiary Ostrum Asset Management has appointed Gaëlle Théaud-Gautheron as chief operating officer. Théaud-Gautheron has been with the Natixis group for three years and leaves her role as managing partner – transformation management office at Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking. She starts her new role at the beginning of July, will report to md Olivier Houix, and will be in charge of optimising the organisation and efficiency of key processes.

Corinne Smith, Claudia Lewis, Kenny Wastell