KPMG is seeking to strengthen its investment in its alternative investment funds practice by bringing on board several new partners and managing directors to bolster the firm's initiative in the growing sector.
The new hires and transferees include Ted Carreiro as partner, who joined KPMG in June of 2012 as a federal tax partner within the Alternative Investment Fund practice in Boston.
Laura Thompson will be the managing director, based in Boston. Thompson joined KPMG from Bain Capital, where she was vice president of the General Partner group. Prior to Bain, Laura spent over a decade leading the international tax function at Wellington Management Company.
Angela Yun and Michael Richards have also both been appointed as partners. ?Angela Yu joined KPMG as a partner for KPMG's US Real Estate Tax Practice in the New York office.
Prior to her current role, she was an international tax partner with KPMG's Washington National Tax Practice and Vancouver US Tax Planning Practice. Yun also served as a member of the US Congressional staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Before KPMG, Michael Richards spent three years as a principal at Fremont Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm associated with the Bechtel Group with over $2 billion under management.
Phillip DeSalvo has been appointed as senior manager. DeSalvo has experience working with private equity investment firms and their portfolio companies in connection with all aspects of transaction investigation, structuring, execution, post-closing integration and other matters.
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