People moves and key promotions in securitisation

This week’s roundup of securitisation job swaps sees Morgan Lewis hiring a structured finance specialist and former SEC special counsel as partner. Elsewhere, Marathon Asset Management has promoted a long-standing senior portfolio manager to partner, while Close Brothers Property Finance has added two senior professionals to its new structured finance team in London.

Morgan Lewis has hired the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Brandon Figg as partner in its Washington office. In his new role, Figg will focus on public and private asset-backed securities, asset-backed lending, repurchase agreement transactions and derivatives. He leaves his role as senior special counsel at the SEC after three years with the organisation. Figg previously spent seven years at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton where he focused on structured finance, securitisations, credit funds, derivatives and asset-based finance, among other areas.

Meanwhile, Marathon Asset Management has promoted Joseph Griffin to partner, based in its New York office. Griffin joined the firm 12 years ago and will continue in his capacity as senior portfolio manager focusing on loan origination and CMBS trading, as well as sitting on the manager's investment committee. 

Close Brothers Property Finance has expanded its new structured finance team in London with the hire of two senior professionals. Manu Dinamani joins the build to rent specialist as a director from Downing, where he served as investment director. Joining him is Iain Melville, who will serve as the firm’s new senior business development manager, after previously serving as funding manager at Citu, where he led the structuring development and investment finance for the group.

And finally, Eagle Point Credit has recruited the ForeStar Sustainable Credit team to focus on direct origination in the ‘infra-centric’ space and build the firm’s infrastructure credit investing programme and support its private credit strategies. 

ForeStar managing partner Jennifer Powers will lead the team as principal and head of infrastructure credit. She is joined by md Brittany Starck Pinkerton and director Michael Weber. Prior to ForeStar, Powers worked at Global Infrastructure Partners, Mizuho, RBS and CSFB. Starck Pinkerton and Weber also worked at Mizuho and RBS before joining ForeStar.

Corinne Smith, Claudia Lewis, Kenny Wastell