Latest LevFin people & market news

• BAML's Munro heads to New York as global head of levfin

  

  Chris Munro, co-head of leveraged finance for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, is leaving London to take up a new role as the bank’s sole global head of leveraged finance in New York.

  • 20 Aug 2018

• No Brexit deal? No worries for bond deals… yet

  

  UK Prime Minister Theresa May may have rebuked her International trade secretary Liam Fox for his suggestion the chances of no-deal Brexit were now 60-40, but bookmakers Boyle Sports has exactly those odds for those who want to put any money on it. If that is the likely outcome now, what will it mean for the execution of bond deals?

  • 09 Aug 2018

• DBS scores syndicate hire from Chinese rival

  

  Debt syndicate banker Angie Li has joined DBS from Guotai Junan International after two years at the Chinese firm.

  • 08 Aug 2018

• Natixis names senior leadership in Apac IBD

  

  Natixis has made three senior appointments in Hong Kong to support its growing investment banking activities in Asia Pacific.

  • 03 Aug 2018

• Aharoni joins for TMT as Barclays keeps up banking hires

  

  Daniel Aharoni has started at Barclays as a managing director in its telecoms, media and technology team for Europe and the Middle East (EME).

  • 01 Aug 2018

• Bank of America Merrill Lynch hires former Barclays levfin head

  

  Bank of America Merrill Lynch said last week that it had hired Jill Schwartz, the former global head of leveraged finance at Barclays. Schwartz has been named executive vice chairman in the firm’s global corporate and investment banking unit.

  • 30 Jul 2018

• Burney to arrive as syndicate veteran Withers departs ING

  

  Colin Withers left ING’s EM and high yield syndicate last week after seven years at the bank and shortly before Uzair Burney, a high yield syndicate official from Lloyds, is set to join the desk.

  • 24 Jul 2018

• BNPP merges US credit markets and banking, hires new levfin head

  

  BNP Paribas is combining its primary and secondary activities in US credit markets under a new Global Credit Markets Americas division, with a new head of leveraged finance joining from Deutsche Bank to bolster the firm’s offering.

  • 23 Jul 2018

• Houlihan Lokey wades into US loan boom

  

  Houlihan Lokey has formed a new US leveraged loan syndication platform, HL Finance, with HPS Investment Partners working alongside the firm to underwrite and syndicate deals of up to $1bn.

  • 23 Jul 2018

• SC Lowy hires Bishop for distressed debt sourcing

  SC Lowy Asset Management has hired William Bishop as senior sourcer for distressed debt in London.

  • 23 Jul 2018

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