The latest senior moves in the North American wealth management sector.

Warburg Pincus
Warburg Pincus, the investment house, has appointed business figure David Gabriel as a senior advisor in its industrials group. 

Gabriel, who has more than four decades’ experience at a number of firms, will work with Warburg Pincus to identify and evaluate new investment opportunities in distribution and other sectors and help drive value-creation at portfolio companies.

Previously, Gabriel was chief operating officer of Sonepar SAS, a business-to-business distributor of electrical, industrial and safety products, solutions and related services. Prior to his COO role, Gabriel served as president and CEO of Sonepar North America. (That firm is a B2B distributor of electrical, industrial and safety products.)

Warburg Pincus has been an active investor in industrials, such as in Consolidated Precision Products, Duravant, Extant Aerospace, Infinite Electronics, Polypore, Pregis, Scotsman Industries, Service Logic, Sundyne, TransDigm, TriMark USA, and Wencor, among others. In total, the firm oversees more than $85 billion in investments.

Goodwin
Global law firm Goodwin has appointed Anthony McCusker as the firm’s next chair. The appointment will become effective at the beginning of the firm’s next fiscal year on October 1, 2023. McCusker will succeed Robert Insolia, who has served as chair since 2019 and as managing partner from 2012 to 2019.

“Goodwin’s success has been driven by relentlessly focusing on our strategy and our culture, and the partnership overwhelmingly feels Anthony is the right person to carry this torch forward,” said Insolia, who will return to full-time practice after stepping down from the chair role at the end of this fiscal year.

Goodwin’s strategy is to help clients across the firm’s key industries of focus achieve great outcomes. The firm’s clients include successful and innovative leaders, entrepreneurs, companies, and investors at the convergence of and within the life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology, and financial services industries. Goodwin’s culture is encapsulated in its Core Principles.

As chair, McCusker will drive both strategic initiatives and culture, working closely with managing partner Mark Bettencourt. He will focus on client, talent, and press relations, and on promoting and supporting the firm’s unique brand.

“Thanks to the trust our clients put in us and to the commitment of our lawyers and business professionals, Goodwin has been and continues to be on an extraordinary trajectory,” said McCusker. “Our client-centric strategy and our global platform are differentiated as much by the unique mix of market-moving industries they cover, as by our deep understanding of these industries, and the growing convergence among them. Rob has done an outstanding job building on the Goodwin promise to both our clients and our people, and I look forward to continuing with this build – along with all of us at the firm – in my role as chair.”

McCusker joined Goodwin in 2010 to launch the Technology practice on the West Coast. Most recently, he co-chaired the firm’s global Technology practice. He has held a number of leadership positions at Goodwin, including chairing the Silicon Valley office (where he is based), and serving on both the executive and the allocations committees. McCusker is widely-recognized as a pre-eminent advisor to technology companies and their investors.