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People: Oak Hill hires distressed structured products team from Blackstone, CIO and FoHF manager Cynthia Nicoll leaves Tremont, Thames River bolsters emerging markets team with two economists, NIR Group loses two key employees, WexTrade Financial names Jerry Considine director of trading, Johansson takes charge at troubled fixed-income, currencies and commodities UBS arm

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Opalesque Exclusive: Oak Hill hires distressed structured products team from Blackstone Oak Hill Advisors, a credit and distressed investment manager with over $10 billion of capital under management, has added to its capabilities a team of distressed structured product specialists led by Jason Serrano. Most recently at The Blackstone Group, the team spearheaded an effort to uncover investment opportunities within the dislocated structured finance sector. Prior to Blackstone, Jason Serrano and fellow team member, Nicholas Mah, were at Fortress Investment Group where they focused on investing across various distressed asset classes in the securitization markets.

Oak Hill Advisors, L.P. is a specialty investment management firm with over 18 years experience in the below investment grade credit markets, including high yield bonds, leveraged loans, and special situations. The firm reportedly raised approximately $900 million of capital recently for investing in opportunities in the loan and bond markets. Oak Hill Advisors is based in New York, with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. +212-326-1500

CIO and FoHF manager Cynthia Nicoll leaves Tremont From Pionline.com: Cynthia Nicoll left as CIO of hedge fund-of-funds manager Tremont Capital, confirmed spokesman Montieth Illingworth. Mr. Illingworth would not say why she left, and she could not be reached for comment about her plans. Tremont Capital is searching for a new CIO, Mr. Ill......................

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