S&P Capital IQ Power Moves

Evercore Partners announced that Steve Wellington has agreed to join the firm’s investment banking business as a senior managing director based in London, focusing on financial restructuring, distressed M&A and debt advisory.

Wellington will work closely with industry coverage bankers, as well as the restructuring team in New York, which is led by David Ying.

Wellington has specialised in financial restructuring advisory and leveraged finance underwriting for the past 16 years. Prior to that he was co-head of European leveraged finance and was a senior member of the financial sponsors group. -Business Wire

Evercore Partners also announced that Randolph Sesson has agreed to join the firm’s investment banking business as a senior managing director based in London, where he will be head of European transportation.

Sesson will focus on providing strategic and financial advice to companies in the transportation and related infrastructure sectors.

Sesson was most recently a managing director and head of European transportation and infrastructure within the investment banking division at Morgan Stanley & Co.’s London office. -Business Wire

Evercore Partners announced that Shaun Finnie has agreed to join the firm’s investment banking group as a senior managing director and head of its oil and gas acquisition and divestiture advisory business based in Houston. Mr. Finnie was most recently a managing director and head of mergers and acquisitions for Scotia Waterous in the U.S. He has been with Scotia Waterous (and Scotia Capital) since 2003.

Lance Dardis also has agreed to join Evercore’s investment Banking group as a managing director in the firm’s oil and gas acquisition and divestiture advisory business based in Houston. Mr. Dardis will join Evercore from Scotia Waterous. In addition, engineers Jerry Smith and Doug Rogers from Scotia Waterous have agreed to join Evercore as vice presidents. -Business Wire

Evercore Partners announced that Lloyd A. Sprung has agreed to join the firm’s investment banking business as a senior managing director. He will be based in New York.

Sprung will focus on advising clients on debt capital markets and corporate restructuring transactions.

Sprung was most recently a managing director at Miller Buckfire & Co. where he was responsible for leading restructuring, financing and strategic advisory assignments across a variety of industries. With over 17 years of capital markets and restructuring experience, he has advised on numerous significant transactions, notably representing Interstate Bakeries on its bankruptcy restructuring and Advanstar Communications and Aveos Fleet Performance on their out of court restructurings. He started his career at Merrill Lynch & Co. where he structured, originated and traded debt derivative and commercial real estate products. -Business Wire

Evercore Partners announced that Eric Mandl has joined the firm’s investment banking business as a senior managing director. He will be based in New York.

Mandl will focus on advising companies in the large cap technology and software and internet sectors, and will work closely with other senior members of Evercore’s technology team, including Michael Price, Paul Deninger, Brian Roberts and Naveen Nataraj as the company continue to build out this team.

Mandl was most recently global head of software and Enterprise Banking at UBS. -Business Wire

Evercore Partners announced that Paul Deninger has agreed to join the firm’s investment banking business as a senior managing director.

Deninger, who will be based in Boston and San Francisco, will focus on advising companies in the technology and clean technology sectors and will work closely with Evercore’s technology team including senior managing directors Michael Price, Naveen Nataraj, Brian Roberts and Jed Sherwindt.

Deninger was most recently a vice chairman at Jefferies. -Business Wire

Evercore Partners announced that Philip Kassin has joined the firm’s advisory business as a senior managing director effective immediately.

Kassin, who is based in New York, will focus on advising companies in the chemicals and energy sectors. -Business Wire

Evercore Partners announced the appointment of Martin J. Cicco as senior managing director and head of company’s real estate advisory practice.

Mr. Cicco founded MJC Associates in January 2007. Prior to MJC Associates, he spent 29 years at Merrill Lynch ultimately serving as vice chairman of global commercial real estate and global head of real estate investment banking.

Evercore Partners announced that it intends to expand its premier investment banking platform by establishing a U.S. cash equities business and broadening its strategic capital markets advisory services.

Charles Myers has joined the company as a senior managing director and will lead the company’s cash equities business.

Mr. Myers was most recently a managing director and global head of equities at Fox-Pitt Kelton. He joined Fox-Pitt Kelton in 2004, held a number of senior positions during his tenure and as global head of equities was responsible for research, sales and trading of all equities products across the United States, Europe and Asia. Myers has 20 years experience in the global equities markets having worked previously at UBS and ING Barings.

Jim Birle has joined the company as a senior advisor, and will lead the company’s effort to advise its clients on strategic capital markets issues.

Mr. Birle was most recently the head of global equity capital markets at Merrill Lynch from 2001 to 2008. He spent the majority of his 20 year career at Merrill Lynch in equity capital markets and was a member of the firm’s equity and investment banking operating committees. Birle began his career at Merrill Lynch in the high yield and restructuring investment banking group. He retired from Merrill Lynch in 2008. -PR Newswire

Evercore Partners has hired Mark H. Burton as a senior managing director in its advisory business. Burton was a vice chairman at Barclays Capital and a senior member of its financial institutions group. Before that, he was a vice chairman at Lehman Brothers and member of its strategic committee, senior client council and business development committee. -American Banker

Roger Altman, chairman of Evercore Partners announced that Ralph Schlosstein has joined Evercore as president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. Mr. Schlosstein was previously president and co-founder of BlackRock, where he spent nearly two decades as president helping to grow BlackRock from a start-up into one of the world’s leading financial services firms. Mr. Altman will continue as full time chairman with an undiminished commitment to Evercore. As president and CEO, Mr. Schlosstein will manage all of Evercore’s businesses and work with Mr. Altman and the firm’s other partners to expand Evercore by building out its core advisory business and further globalizing and diversifying the firm’s overall business. -PR Newswire

Evercore Partners announced that George R. Ackert has agreed to join the firm’s advisory business as a senior managing director and will establish and lead Evercore’s transportation & infrastructure practice. Mr. Ackert, who will be based in New York, will also lead the development of Evercore’s new sports advisory business.

Previously, he was the global head of transportation & infrastructure at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Prior to the merger, he ran the gaming, leisure & transportation group at Merrill Lynch. At Merrill Lynch, Mr. Ackert advised on a number of important transactions, including the 2008 merger of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines.-PR Newswire

Evercore Partners announced that Qazi Fazal has joined the firm’s restructuring advisory practice as a senior managing director. Mr. Fazal, who will be based in New York, will work with William Repko, David Ying, Daniel Celentano and Stephen Sieh in expanding Evercore’s restructuring advisory business. Mr. Fazal was most recently at Miller Buckfire  where he was a managing director and a member of the management committee.

Evercore Partners announced that Les Fabuss has joined the firm’s Advisory business as a senior managing director. Mr. Fabuss’ appointment is effective November 12, 2008 and he will be based in New York. He comes to Evercore after a 25-year career at Lehman Brothers, where -PR Newswire

Evercore Partners announced that Daniel A. Celentano has joined the firm’s restructuring advisory practice as a senior managing director. He will be based in New York and join William Repko and David Ying in expanding Evercore’s restructuring advisory business.

Mr. Celentano is a nationally recognized advisor to distressed companies and their stakeholders and acquirers, facilitating restructurings both out of court and in Chapter 11 cases. Previously he was a senior managing director at Bear Stearns and formerly served as head of its financial restructuring group.

Mr. Celentano, 57, holds an M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. with Honors from the College of the Holy Cross. He has served as a member of the board of the Turnaround Management Association and presently serves as vice president and trustee of Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York.-PR Newswire

Evercore Partners announced today that Anthony Fry will join the firm’s advisory business as a senior managing director, based in Evercore’s London office on January 1st, 2008.

Anthony Fry joins from Lehman Brothers, where he was head of UK investment banking and chairman of the media group and subsequently senior advisor.

Anthony is the third senior managing director to join Evercore’s European business this year, following the appointments of Ian Ferguson from Merrill Lynch and Edward Banks from JPMorgan Cazenove in September.

Anthony Fry has spent more than 30 years working around the world as an investment banker for the Rothschild, Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers. He has been involved in many transactions including the privatizations in the UK in the 1980s, the launch of the National Lottery in the 1990s and the defenses of the London Stock Exchange over the last three years. He has just returned from a spell at Harvard Business School, where he attended the Advanced Management Program.

He has held a number of non-executive positions at companies including Southern Water, the BSI, Mowlem and is currently on the Board of Dairy Crest. He also serves on the boards of charitable foundations and academic institutions including SOAS, The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and The Edinburgh International Television Festival. -PR Newswire