Richard Ambery has been appointed as MPG’s general counsel by Managing Partners Group, the international boutique asset manager.

Mr Ambery joins MPG from Malta-based Ganado Advocates, where he was partner and head of capital markets. He began his career in 1988 in debt securities sales and trading at Security Pacific Hoare Govett before switching disciplines and becoming a trainee solicitor then associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

He later worked for Clifford Chance, Dechert, Mayer Brown, Paul Hastings and Arthur Cox. He is a member of the investment and capital markets committee of the Institute for Financial Practitioners, which is a main consultative body for the government and Malta Financial Services Authority.

Managing Partners Group intends to offer securitisations and alternative fund management services to the pan-European market. Malta and Luxembourg are the only two financial centres in Europe with a comprehensive regulatory infrastructure in place to domicile securitisation vehicles.