WSJ hires finance reporters from Bloomberg, Reuters

Duncan Mavin, Europe finance editor at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff announcements on Tuesday:

We’re very pleased to announce some significant new hires that will add depth and breadth to our coverage of finance and markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Simon Clark joins as private-equity reporter. Simon previously spent 13 years at Bloomberg News where he won numerous international awards. His previous reporting runs the gamut from U.K. banks in the financial crisis to the plight of Congolese child laborers. He holds degrees in English and Italian and International Relations.

Laurence Fletcher will cover hedge funds. Laurence comes to us from Reuters, where he worked for the past eight years in a variety of roles including European Hedge Fund Correspondent. His reporting earned several international awards and has included an exclusive investigation into the collapse of hedge fund Dynamic Decisions and revelations about Bernard Madoff’s U.K. business dealings. Laurence has a degree in English and has also worked for Bloomberg News and Citywire.

Shayndi Raice is appointed M&A reporter.  Shayndi joined Dow Jones Newswires in 2010 and was most recently covering the banking industry for the WSJ in New York. Prior to that she covered the tech sector in San Francisco, reporting on the IPOs of Facebook, Groupon and Zynga. She comes to London with a strong track record of scoops, arriving just as the M&A sector in this region starts to heat up. Shayndi previously worked for The Boston Courant, and has four degrees, including a Masters in Journalism from Columbia.