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Davidson Kempner has appointed Sona Gohel, who joins after almost 22 years at Goldman Sachs, as COO and promoted James Li, head of capital markets, to president.
Li was also a Goldman Sachs veteran, spending 12 years with the US investment bank before joining New York-based Davidson Kempner in 2018.
He was made partner last year. Gohel joins as partner as part of a series of changes at the $37bn firm, which ranked sixteenth in last year’s AFI Power List.
Michael Herzog, a global co-head of merger arbitrage and global head of long/short equity, and Perry Metviner, co-COO and CTO, are leaving and retiring this year, respectively, Bloomberg reported.
A series of internal promotions and appointments have also been made.
The firm has over 500 employees across seven offices: New York, Philadelphia, London, Dublin, Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Mumbai.