Career moves

Simmons & Simmons boosted its Paris banking team this week by hiring Colin Millar, a partner from SJ Berwin.

After boosting its securitized products origination group just last week, Barclays Capital has hired more personnel for its ABS operations.

Matthew Yoon has joined the financial services regulatory group of DLA Piper’s government affairs practice as a partner in New York, the law firm announced Thursday. Yoon arrives from SNR Denton and previously Thacher Proffitt & Wood.

Global multi-asset brokerage and clearinghouse Newedge appointed two senior hires based in its New York office.

Freddie Mac’s capital market chief, Peter Federico, a 23-year veteran of the GSE, announced that he is leaving the company in mid-May.

Integrated Asset Services (IAS) appointed Paul Sveen, a residential mortgage and structured finance business executive, as its chief executive officer.

Gregory Heher and Thomas Cullum are the latest in a series of hires to Sandler O’Neill & Partners' fixed-income group.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) appointed Marcia Davies as Chief of Staff, effective immediately.

Michael Wade will be leaving Credit Suisse. Wade was hired by Credit Suisse from Barclays Capital about a year ago as a managing director and co-head of asset finance in the global markets solutions group along with Tricia Hazelwood.

O’Melveny & Myers has appointed Washington,DC-based partner Jeffrey Kilduff as the firm-wide chair of its securities litigation practice group.

Jefferies Group appointed Michael Old as a managing director in Real Estate Investment Banking. He will be based in the firm's London office.

CMG Mortgage has hired Todd Hempstead, a Fannie Mae veteran of 25 years, to work with private investors interested in buying and securitizing conforming and Jumbo mortgages.

Riverside Risk Advisors, a New York-based derivatives advisory firm, said today that it has hired Steven Plake to help “broaden its relationship(s) with corporate and public pension plans.”

Deutsche Bank Securities hired Douglas Runte as a managing director and head of aviation debt research within its markets division.

Lee Farkas isn’t exactly a household name in America, but this week he became the first mortgage executive of a once top-ranked lender to be found guilty of a fraud with its roots in the housing bust.

RBS Securities tapped Brice Van Elswyk as head of client solutions for insurers in North America, a new position.

Jefferies appointed Paul Kopsky as a managing director in the firm’s military housing mortgage business. He will be responsible for sourcing and originating military housing bond issue transactions.

RBC Capital Markets appointed Peter Hirsch as managing director and head of U.S. dollar rates and mortgage trading. The new appointee's, who will be based in New York, focus includes coverage of governments, agencies, agency mortgages and derivatives.

BlackRock hired Jack Chandler as global head of real estate. In this new position, Chandler will oversee the firm's global real estate capabilities that extend across the capital market structure and include both equity and debt investment products that have reached around $13 billion in assets under management.

Barclays Capital announced in an internal memo that Diane Rinnovatore will become co-head of securitized products origination (SPO) along with with Cory Wishengrad, who is currently co-head of SPO and head of the esoteric ABS origination group at the bank. He has been running the Barclays esoteric ABS business since late 2008.