People moves

Karl Cole-Frieman, former general counsel and chief compliance officer at Standard Pacific Capital, a San Francisco based hedge fund manager, has teamed up with Mauricio Beugelmans, a former executive director at Morgan Stanley, to form Cole-Frieman & Beugelmans, a boutique law firm serving investment managers and broker-dealers with offices in New York and San Francisco. The new legal firm works on a broad range of corporate and litigation matters including securities litigation, FINRA arbitration, internal investigations, operational compliance, regulatory risk management, regulatory inquiries, ISDAs and counterparty documentation, loan trading and distressed debt transactions, hedge fund due diligence, marketing and investor relations, employment and compensation matters and routine business matters.

Investec Asset Management has appointed Jeff Burch co-head of its credit team. He joins the fixed income team co-headed by John Stopford. Burch joins from Blue Mountain Capital, a specialist credit hedge fund, where he helped to build and ran the company's European credit operations and managed all European, Asian and African credit exposure.

Technology Group, an agency broker and financial technology company, has announced three senior additions to its international sales trading operations. Robert Blyth Currie has been appointed head of sales trading in Europe. In the Asia Pacific region, Neil McCann has been hired as director of sales trading in Hong Kong. James Levy has joined as senior sales trader in Australia.

Currie will manage the sales trading desk in London where he will focus on the single stock business reporting to David Stevens, CEO of ITG in Europe. Currie joins from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein where he was director of pan European equity sales trading based in London.

GlobeTax has appointed Kevin Cullen as a director based in the company's New York headquarters. He joins the company's business development and marketing area and will also be a member the management committee. Previously he was as global director of marketing of Information Mosaic, a global wealth management solutions provider. GlobeTax is a provider of withholding tax recovery and market reference data services covering over 230 jurisdictions.