Global Hunter Securities LLC will combine with energy investment bank and institutional financial services firm Pritchard Capital Partners LLC to form Pritchard Global Hunter Securities. The merged firm will serve small- and midcap energy clients.

Thomas Pritchard (pictured), managing partner and founder of Pritchard Capital, will become president and managing director of capital markets. Daniel Conwill, chief executive of Global Hunter Securities, will be CEO and head of investment banking at the new firm.

Edward Lainfiesta, president of Global Hunter Securities, will be vice chairman, and Todd Giustiniano, chief financial officer of Pritchard Capital, will be CFO of the new entity. The combined firms will remain based in New Orleans, with offices in New York, Houston, Washington, Atlanta and Newport Beach, Calif.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. hired David Sawyer as a managing director and head of U.S. restructuring, based in New York. He worked at Silver Point Capital LP, a distressed debt-focused investment fund, where he built and headed the restructuring and portfolio groups. He was also a founding member of its special situations group, focused on distressed private equity investments.

Before joining Silver Point in 2004, Sawyer was at Credit ­Suisse Group, where he was a workout and restructuring banker.

Longtime Merrill Lynch & Co. bankers Daniel Markaity and Christopher Bury have joined Jefferies & Co. as managing directors. They also become co-heads of the fixed-income rates business, which includes institutional sales and trading of Treasury and government agency securities, as well as the repo finance business.

Markaity will arrive in February. He spent 27 years at Merrill, the past seven as head of global public credit. Bury, who was at Merrill for more than 13 years, was director and co-CEO of Merrill Lynch Government Securities Inc. and trading manager of the USD agency desk.

Scott Cutler became executive vice president of NYSE Euronext Inc. listings for the Americas. He is responsible for the exchange's relationships with the investment banking, private equity, venture capital and legal communities to attract new listings.

Cutler oversees initial public offerings, structured products and closed-end funds and is responsible for the listings business recently acquired from the American Stock Exchange for the NYSE. Previously, Cutler headed Western U.S. at the NYSE's Palo Alto, Calif., office as a senior vice president. He replaces Noreen Culhane, who retired.

Horizon Cash Management LLC recruited Taylor Nigro as director of sales, reporting to president Pauline Modjeski. Nigro was previously a financial adviser in institutional and individual sales at Wachovia Securities LLC.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP named Gary DiBianco leader of its corporate investigations practice in Europe. DiBianco was a partner in the Washington office since 1998 and has relocated to London.

In December, partners John Carroll, David Meister and Warren Feldman, previously with Clifford Chance LLP, joined the firm's white-collar crime group in New York. Carroll was previously head of Clifford Chance's global white-collar practice and was formerly chief of the securities and commodities fraud unit at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

Loeb & Loeb LLP said Jennifer Borow joined its Los Angeles office as a partner and that commercial intellectual property litigator Timothy Carroll arrived in Chicago as a partner.

Borow is a member of the mergers and acquisitions, corporate media and entertainment and corporate and securities practice groups. She acted as an independent consultant from 2006 to 2008 and, before that, was a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP. Carroll was previously a shareholder at Vedder Price PC.

Robert Gutkin, formerly a partner with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, joined Morris, Manning & Martin LLP in Washington, focusing on intellectual property litigation.

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP named three partners: Keith Andruschak, insurance; Stuart Graiwer, real estate; and Matthew Schwartz, financial restructuring. Also, new counsel include: Glenn Borin and Joseph Giminaro, tax certiorari; Christine Hilla and Manuel Lauredo, real estate; Leah Melone, corporate; and class action litigator JiAe Moon.

Kaye Scholer LLP elected three partners: William Fellerhoff of Chicago, corporate and finance; Frankfurt-based Hans-Joachim Fritz, corporate restructuring; and Sebastian Jungermann, also of Frankfurt, German corporate law, German and European antitrust law and intellectual property.

New counsel include litigators Daniel Boglioli and Coke Stewart, and corporate and finance attorney Lowell Dashefsky.

Energy lawyer Deborah Carpentier, insurance attorney Andrew Weiner and intellectual property practitioner Dawn Albert were named partners with Dickstein Shapiro LLP.