payments, led to a number of lawsuits. Jens-Peter Neumann, former head of Capital Markets sued in Germany in April 2009 for €1.5 million in severance pay. Former senior managers Martin Newson, Eduardo Listorti and Michael Adams sued but settled out of court. Other executives (Areski Iberrakene, Efstratios Hatzistefanis, Kaveh Taleghani and Stefan Guetter) won their bonus suits against the bank in August 2009. Additional cases were brought by Dresdner Kleinwort executive committee members John McIntyre, Bertrand Pinel and Alberto Piedra in August 2009 seeking €11 million. In September 2009, 72 former and current Dresdner Kleinwort front office employees sued for £30 million in disputed bonus payments. BHF Kleinwort Benson Group In September 2009 Commerzbank decided to abandon use of the Dresdner Kleinwort name and, in October 2009, sold the firm, by then renamed Kleinwort Benson, to RHJ International. In July 2011, RHJ International announced that its subsidiary, Kleinwort Benson, was in exclusive negotiations with Deutsche Bank regarding a potential acquisition of BHF Bank, one of Germany's strongest banking brands, with operations in private banking, asset management, financial markets and corporate banking. In September 2012, it announced that it had reached agreement with Deutsche Bank for Kleinwort Benson to acquire BHF Bank for €384 million. In November 2011 Saffron Tax Partners announced the acquisition of the private client tax compliance business from Kleinwort Benson. In December 2012 London-based independent advice firm SK Financial bought about 1,000 clients from Kleinwort Benson that Kleinwort Benson felt it could no longer support profitably after the implementation of the Retail Distribution Review. The bank moved to new premises at St George Street in London in 2012. RHJ International became "BHF Kleinwort Benson Group" in March 2015 and was acquired by Oddo & Cie in early 2016. Then in June 2016, Société Générale acquired Kleinwort Benson from Oddo et Cie. It merged the bank with its existing private banking subsidiary SG Hambros in November 2016 to form Kleinwort Hambros. Notable current and former employees Business Sir Alan Yarrow, former Lord Mayor of London (2014–2015) Bruce Wasserstein, former chairman and CEO of Lazard Xavier Rolet, London Stock Exchange Group, CEO Sir David Clementi, Prudential, Chairman (2002–2008) Sir Adrian Montague, Friends Provident, Chairman Callum McCarthy, HM Treasury, Non-executive board member Ronald Kramer, former President of Wynn Resorts; current CEO of Griffon Corporation Luke Johnson, Royal Society of Arts, Chairman Máxima Zorreguieta, former Vice-President at the department Emerging Markets,