Career moves

Jeffrey Gundlach, the CEO of DoubleLine Capital whose home was burglarized earlier this month, has offered some $1.7 million for information leading to the recovery of stolen artwork.

United Realty Partners has hired Barry Funt as president of United Realty Capital Markets.

Sidley Austin has hired Matthew Cahill, whose expertise includes securitization, to start in early November as a partner in its global finance practice.

Richard D. Baum has been elected as chairman of Redwood Trust, the only current consistent issuer of private-label MBS.

James Meleones will be responsible for all aspects of Clayton Holdings's commercial real estate practice, including loan-level due diligence, loan and portfolio valuation and portfolio oversight and strategy.

Matthew G.J. Duncan, Theresa Kradjian, and Paul Matthews join the firm from Sidley Austin. Sean J.W. Crosky came from Norton Rose, according to a release from the law firm.

Standard Chartered has appointed Steve Perry as head of capital markets for the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan, according to a company release. His responsibilities include overseeing the bank's regional securitization business.

The independent third-party review firm has hired the securitization expert as general counsel, the company said in a release today.

The CLO manager said today that it had tapped Jess Larsen for a new role developing and managing relationships with institutional investors in Europe and the Middle East.

Bradley Lerman was appointed as Fannie Mae executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary effective Oct. 1, the GSE said today in a release.

A California judge upheld his own decision to whittle the government's claims against the firm's ex CEO Michael Perry.

NewDay USA, a nationwide reverse mortgage lender, Tuesday named former Ginnie Mae president Joseph Murin as its new president and chairman.

Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers has opened a Tokyo office that will be headed by directors Kelly Hayes and Peter Gensheimer.

New hire Margaret Kerins will build BMO’s strategic product as part of its global fixed-income platform, including MBS.

ResCap is seeking a nine-month extension of its exclusive right to file a reorganization plan that would settle legal claims related to Ally and MBS investors.

The Real Estate Finance Group's addition of three commercial real estate lenders expands its client service and coverage nationwide for commercial real estate.

Kevin Cooke Jr. has joined Carrington as managing director.

The industry veteran,who most recently served as a senior research fellow at Standard & Poor's, has left the firm to pursue other interests.

Daniel Ornstein joined GoldenTree and is cohead of its trading business along with Corey Geis.