We are delighted to announce that we have enhanced our UK funds offering with the appointment of Melville Rodrigues as Senior Consultant to our fund services team.

Melville has over 25 years of legal and structuring experience and more recently was a partner of one of the UK's leading law firms in London. He spearheads industry thought leadership initiatives, including the Professional Investor Fund, a proposed unauthorised contractual scheme for pension fund and other professional investors, which has the support of industry organisations and many fund management houses. In addition, Melville leads initiatives to attract pension fund and other institutional capital in social impact investment fund projects.

Alan Booth, Managing Director of our UK office commented, "We are delighted to welcome Melville to Ocorian. With the impending launch of the Professional Investor Fund regime, in addition to the current UK funds offering, having the expertise that Melville provides in-house will be of tremendous benefit to Ocorian and our clients. Melville's technical capabilities and industry insight will add great depth and breadth of expertise to our funds business."

On his appointment, Melville added, "I'm delighted to join Ocorian, one of the largest corporate, funds, capital markets and private client service providers in the world. The team offers a professional funds administration service in multiple jurisdictions, and I look forward to expanding this service in the UK".