Updated 9:32 a.m., Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Berkery Noyes— The investment bank announced that Peter Yoon has joined as managing director of the firm's education group. The 15-year banking veteran will specialize in advising companies within the education and training sector, including childcare services. Yoon, a former captain and helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army, was most recently a principal at merchant banking firm Epic Partners. Before that, he worked in the investment banking groups at the Bank of Montreal and UBS.


CapitalSource— The small and mid-sized business lenders announced that Michael Broderick has joined the firm as a director and will lead the healthcare leveraged finance group. Broderick will be based in the firm’s Boston office. He joins CapitalSource from General Electric Capital Corp., where he spent 11 years working in various positions, including senior vice president at GE’s healthcare finance business, where he specialized in leveraged finance transactions.


Friendly’s Ice Cream LLC— The ice cream distributor and operator of Friendly’s restaurants named John Maguire as chief executive officer. Most recently, Maguire was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Panera Bread, where he held various leadership positions over the course of 19 years. He also held positions with Au Bon Pain Co. Inc., Bread and Circus/Whole Foods Supermarkets, and Continental Baking Co. Maguire succeeds Harsha Agadi, who resigned in February to pursue other opportunities, but remains on the Friendly’s board of directors. James Parrish, who has served as interim CEO, will return to his primary role as chief operating officer.


Hunton & Williams LLP— The law firm poached six partners from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and incorporated them into the Hunton & Williams global energy and infrastructure practice. Bud Ellis, formerly co-head of Dewey’s utilities, power and pipelines industry group, Kevin Felz, Michael Fitzpatrick, Steven Friend, Steve Loeshelle and Peter O’Brien represent companies and investment banks in the power and utility industries. They will work out of the firm’s New York office.


Iberiabank— The Lafayette, La.-based bank brought in a longtime community banker to help it identify future deals. Iberiabank hired J. Randolph Bryan, a former executive at First Southern Bancorp in Boca Raton, Fla., as executive vice president and director of strategic initiatives and mergers and acquisitions. As First Southern's chief operating officer, Bryan was in charge of identifying acquisition targets in Florida and on his watch the company absorbed two failed banks. He had previously spent 13 years at the former Hibernia National Bank in New Orleans, which is now part of Capital One Financial.


LDR Holding— The medical device company specializing in spinal implants appointed Robert McNamara as chief financial officer, effective April 23. McNamara has held various leadership positions with technology and medical device companies, where as CFO he managed two initial public offerings, numerous capital raises, and multiple mergers and acquisitions. Dennis Hynson, who previously held the position of CFO, will remain with the company as senior vice president global finance.


O’Melveny & Myers LLP— The law firm announced that Stanton Lovenworth has joined the New York office as counsel, where he will be a member of its healthcare and life sciences practice. Previously, Lovenworth was chair of Dewey & LeBoeuf’s life sciences global industry sector group and a former head of its technology and intellectual property transactions practice group.


The Riverside Company— Erick Bronner has been hired to lead the private equity firm’s investor relations department. Most recently, he was a founding partner at Mercury Capital Advisors, a global private equity fundraising and investment advisory firm. Prior to that, Bronner was a managing director in Merrill Lynch's private equity funds group. Bronner takes over for Christine Croissant, who is moving into a part-time role with the investor relations team.


Walt Disney Co.— The Burbank, Calif.-based movie studio and entertainment company announced that chairman Rich Ross has resigned. A successor has not been named. The departure follows Disney’s reported $200 million loss on the science-fiction picture “John Carter,” which was reportedly over budgeted and poorly marketed. Ross ran Disney’s film division since October 2009 and, before that, helmed operations at the Disney Channel.

For last week's edition...