Hedge Week.com – DLA Piper has appointed Australian corporate and financial services lawyer Luke Gannon as a partner in its corporate group and head of the firm’s funds practice throughout Asia. Gannon, who will be based in DLA Piper’s Hong Kong office, will work closely with partners from the firm’s financial services and regulatory groups and will act for a range of clients on mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets matters.
 
Gannon has almost 20 years experience in a range of funds, regulatory and capital-raising matters in Asia, acting for clients including real estate investment trusts, hedge funds, funds of funds, private equity, infrastructure funds, wealth managers, underwriters and corporate issuers.
 
He was previously a partner and head of funds for eight years at Australian law firm Freehills in Melbourne, where his clients included a international investment banks, fund managers and sponsors. In 2006, he joined a major client as head of corporate and M&A, gaining extensive commercial and acquisitions experience in Asia’s financial services sector.

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Stamford Advocate- Despite a chaotic financial services sector, a new ranking shows money continued to pour into hedge funds at a historic rate last year.

The top 100 firms managed a record $1.35 trillion in 2007, including about $148 billion controlled by 11 lower Fairfield County hedge funds, according to a list compiled by Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine.

The $1.35 trillion held by the top 100 marked a 35 percent increase from the year before and the $148 billion managed locally was a 16.5 percent increase from the 2007 list.

Tops among local hedge funds, and the only lower Fairfield County firm in the top 10, was Westport-based Bridgewater Associates. Bridgewater regained its No. 2 ranking with $36 billion in assets.

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