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  • Malcolm Stewart, the former head of European leveraged capital markets at Merrill Lynch, has joined North Sea Partners, the debt advisory firm, as managing partner for Europe. He will be based in London.
  • Deutsche Bank has made David Ross its new head of loan trading for Europe, the Middle East and Africa following the departure of Deutsche’s long standing loans trading head Matthew Smith, who left in April to join Barclays Capital.
  • Another leveraged finance banker has left Credit Suisse, continuing the round of departures from the region's shrinking market.
  • Maxim Group has hired Sharie Loeffler, Catherine Yelverton and Kevin Cohen to its leveraged finance group in New York.
  • Jean-François Balay has been made head of global loan syndications at Calyon following the departure of Carol Shymanski. Balay, previously headed the corporate origination team within the loans business at Calyon, a position he has held since a reshuffle in 2005.
  • René de Laigue, global co-head of leveraged and media telecom finance at Société Générale, is set to retire at the end of the month after 33 years at the bank.