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...Bank of America has tapped Lukas Poensgen as head of M&A for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and Juan Vilarino Rumeu as head of M&A for Iberia....
...Alex Szapiro, the fund’s third remaining partner, is being promoted, as is Mexico City-based investor Juan Franck....
...Board directors Kai Nargolwala and Juan Colombas are also departing....
...Lex Greensill: suited and booted DD readers are by now painfully aware of Lex Greensill’s public persona....
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...Houlihan Lokey has acquired Madrid-based Fidentiis Capital, bringing on board the advisory firm’s founders, Carlos Paramés and Juan Luis Muñoz, as managing directors....
...DD thinks Icahn may need a new calculator....
...Randy Bullard, Alexandra Aguirre, Enrique Conde, and Juan Delgado are all joining the firm from Greenberg Traurig....
...Dunas Capital has appointed Juan Díaz-Laviada as an independent member of the firm’s private equity fund of funds....
...Seyfarth Shaw, a law firm, has hired Juan D Reyes III as a partner in the real estate department and public-private partnership practice....
...It will see a series of bankers promoted into new roles including Jasper Tans, Juan Monte, Christian Lesueur, Alberto Palombi, Nestor Paz-Galindo and Stefanos Papapanagiotou....
...HSBC has hired Mark Epley and George Patterson as it builds out its North American business, DD has learnt....
...Regular readers might remember the special edition of DD we sent out the day the FT broke the story....
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...The US-trained General Alzate is the highest ranking military officer ever abducted by the Farc....
...Juan Manuel Santos, the Colombian president, on Sunday suspended talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the Farc, after the rebel group abducted General Rubén Darío Alzate, another...
...“We already know the Farc were responsible for this kidnapping, a kidnapping that is totally unacceptable,” said Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos....
...The latest kidnappings prompted President Juan Manuel Santos to halt the negotiations in the first major setback for the attempts at peace....
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