S&P Capital IQ Power Moves

Cowen Group announced that Dan Charney has joined the firm as managing director and co-head of equities.

Charney will join Tom O’Mara, co-head of equities, in overseeing the company’s domestic and international equity sales and trading businesses. He is based in New York and reports to Jeffrey Solomon, chief executive officer of Cowen and Company, Cowen’s broker-dealer business.

Charney joins Cowen from Jefferies where he was most recently managing director and head of global electronic trading services as well as head of U.S. salestrading. -Business Wire

Cowen Group announced two appointments within its investment banking platform, Cowen and Company.

John Nelson has joined the firm as managing director and head of aerospace, defense and industrials investment banking and Jeff Porphy has been appointed head of mergers and acquisitions. Porphy will also maintain his role as head of financial sponsors coverage.

Both Nelson and Porphy are based in New York and report to Kevin Raidy and Chris McCabe, co-heads of investment banking for Cowen and Company.

Nelson re-joins Cowen from Macquarie Capital where he served as a managing director in the firm’s industrials investment banking group. He served as head of Cowen and Company’s aerospace & defense investment banking group from August 2007 to April 2011. Prior to joining Cowen in 2007, he was a managing director in the mergers & acquisitions group of Friedman Billings Ramsey, where he was head of aerospace, defense and IT services. He was also a managing director at Bank of America Securities, where he was head of the technology & business services corporate investment banking group from 2000 to 2002.

Porphy joined Cowen in March 2010 as head of financial sponsors coverage and subsequently assumed responsibility for industrials investment banking at Cowen and Company. Prior to this, he served as head of financial sponsor idea generation and corporate advisory M&A at Barclays Capital. Before Barclays, he was managing director and head of financial sponsors M&A and co-head of middle market M&A at Credit Suisse. -Business Wire

Cowen Group announced that Keith Kurzner and Kyle Solomon have joined the firm as managing directors and co-heads of institutional options and event driven strategies.

In their roles, Kurzner and Solomon will be responsible for growing the firm’s presence in institutional options and launching the event driven strategies group, which will include both equity and options sales and trading. They will be based in New York and will report to Tom O’Mara, Cowen’s head of institutional derivatives. -Business Wire

Cowen Group announced that Chris McCabe will become a managing director and head of technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) investment banking. He will based in San Francisco.

McCabe will join Cowen in September and will report to Jeffrey Solomon, chief operating officer and head of investment banking.

McCabe will join Cowen from Piper Jaffray where he was a managing director and global co-head of both the clean technology and renewables and industrials groups. He led the clean tech practice from 2008 until he left the company, organizing and branding the group. His responsibilities included coverage of solar, energy efficiency, industrial biotech, industrial technology and industrial growth.

Also joining Cowen’s TMT investment banking team are Blake Williams as managing director, head of semiconductors and capital equipment group, and Jose Cobos, as managing director, head of internet group.

Both Williams and Cobos will join Cowen on July 6, 2011 in San Francisco and both will report to Solomon on an interim basis until McCabe joins in September.

Williams will join Cowen from Piper Jaffray where he was a managing director in the technology, media and telecommunications group and head of semiconductor, component and communications coverage, where he was responsible for originating a variety of equity, convertible debt, private capital, restructuring and exchange offerings and M&A transactions for public and private companies.

Cobos also will join Cowen from Piper Jaffray where he was principal and head of internet investment banking. He joined Piper’s technology group in 2004 and held positions of increasing responsibility as he worked on a broad range of deals including M&A, IPO’s, follow-ons, convertible debt securities, private equity and PIPE financings.

Peter Petitt, managing director based in San Francisco, will also expand his responsibilities into clean technology coverage and mandates. He will report to McCabe. -Business Wire

Cowen Group announced that Timothy Lufkin has joined the firm as managing director in the industrials investment banking group.

Lufkin will be based in New York and will report to Jeff Porphy, Cowen’s head of industrials and financial sponsors.

Lufkin was most recently at FBR Capital Markets where he was a managing director responsible for initiating new business development focusing on both buyside and sellside M&A and public and private capital. -Business Wire

Cowen Group announced that Steven Qian has joined the firm as managing director and head of Asia capital markets.

Qian will be primarily responsible for expanding company’s capital markets business throughout Asia. He will be based in Beijing and report to Jeff Solomon, company’s chief operating officer and head of investment banking, and Kevin Reynolds, global head of capital markets.

Qian joins Cowen from China Bridge Capital where he was a mangaing partner responsible for advancing business development initiatives such as financial advisory and private equity investment. -Business Wire

Cowen Group announced that Katherine Lu has joined the firm’s China health care research team as a managing director.

Lu will be based in New York and report to Barry Tarasoff, director of research at Cowen and Company.

Lu joins the company from Oppenheimer & Co. where she was a managing director and head of China equity research. -Business Wire

Cowen Group announced that Dr. Simos Simeonidis has joined the firm as director and senior research analyst, where he will cover biotechnology in the health care sector of Cowen’s research group.

Prior to joining Cowen and Company, Simeonidis served as a senior equity research analyst at Rodman & Renshaw and focused on biotechnology, specifically oncology, diabetes, inflammation and RNAi. Prior to this, he was a vice president and senior biotechnology analyst at First Albany Capital, where he covered the small and mid-cap biotechnology and specialty pharmaceuticals sectors. -Business Wire

Cowen Group announced that Charles Rhyee has joined the firm as managing director and senior research analyst.

Rhyee will cover health care information technology (HCIT) and distribution in the health are sector of Cowen’s research group. He will be based in New York and will report to Barry Tarasoff, Cowen’s director of research.

Rhyee joins Cowen and Company with over ten years of experience in healthcare distribution and information technology, most recently serving as a senior research analyst for healthcare distribution & information technology at Oppenheimer & Co. Prior to this, he was an equity research associate at Credit Suisse. -Business Wire

Cowen Group announced that Jaime Burnes has joined the firm as a managing director in healthcare investment banking.

Based in Cowen’s San Francisco office, Burnes will focus on biotechnology and life sciences companies.

Burnes joins Cowen from Oppenheimer & Co. where he was a managing director in the healthcare group. Prior to Oppenheimer, he was a senior coverage officer at Credit Suisse and held similar roles at Lehman Brothers and UBS. -Business Wire

Cowen Group announced that, effective immediately, Jeffrey Solomon, chief operating officer of Cowen, will assume the role of head of investment banking and Kevin Reynolds has been appointed as head of global capital markets, which brings together the existing equity capital markets, private equity capital markets and debt capital markets businesses.

Scott Ryles, previously head of investment banking, will assume a role as strategic advisor to investment banking. Reynolds, along with Len Sheer, will continue to lead the debt capital markets effort. Grant Miller and Kevin Raidy will become co-heads of an integrated equity capital markets effort.

The global capital markets division will report to Solomon. -Business Wire

Cowen Group announced that Michael R. Costa has joined the firm as head of mergers and acquisitions and vice chairman of investment banking.

Mr. Costa will be based in New York and will report to Scott Ryles, head of investment banking for Cowen.

Michael was previously a managing director at Merrill Lynch, focusing on mergers and acquisitions. Before joining Merrill Lynch in 1989, he was also a mergers and acquisitions attorney at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York. -PR Newswire

Cowen Group announced that Declan Quirke has been promoted to head of health care investment banking, succeeding Peter Reikes, who has been promoted to vice chairman. Both Mr. Quirke and Mr. Reikes will continue to be based in New York.

Mr Quirke joined Cowen in 2001 and most recently was a managing director and head of life sciences. -PR Newswire

Cowen Group announced that William Reiland has joined the Cowen broker/dealer subsidiary as a managing director in the health care investment banking group.

Mr. Reiland will be based in New York and report to co-heads of the firm’s investment banking division, Scott Ryles and Don Meltzer.

In his new position, Mr. Reiland will be responsible for structured and other debt financings, primarily in the health care sector.

Most recently, Mr. Reiland was a managing director at Leerink Swann where he was responsible for originating, structuring and marketing royalty monetizations, mezzanine financings and private equity transactions. -PR Newswire