On July 1 in London, Stefan Jentzsch will join Perella Weinberg Partners LP as a partner in its advisory group.

Jentzsch (pictured) was a member of the executive board of Dresdner Bank AG and CEO of Dresdner Kleinwort. He began his investment banking career in 1987 at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he became a partner in 1998. Jentzsch will work closely with Dietrich Becker, a founding partner of Perella Weinberg. Jentzsch will also focus on expanding the firm's financial institutions practice across Europe.

Chris Williams will join Credit Suisse Group as vice chairman of Europe, Middle East and Africa investment banking on Sept. 1 in London and report to Jim Amine, co-head of investment banking. Williams joins from Citigroup Inc., where he was global co-head of the financial institutions group. He previously spent 13 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Jim Ratigan will join Deutsche Bank AG as a managing director in the mergers and acquisitions group in the Americas, focusing on the industrials sector. Ratigan joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he spent 18 years. At Merrill, Ratigan recently worked on Republic Services Inc.'s $4.5 billion merger with Allied Waste Industries Inc.

In New York, Banc of America Securities-Merrill Lynch Research said a five-person U.S. real estate investment trust team has joined from UBS.

They are: Jeffrey Spector, head of U.S. equity research REIT; James Feldman, senior U.S. REIT analyst; and associates Lindsay Schroll and Andrew Ryu. Senior U.S. REIT analyst Michelle Ko will start in late June. Craig Schmidt, a senior U.S. REIT analyst at BofA-Merrill since 1995, remains in his current role and will report to Spector.

Miller Tabak Roberts Securities LLC launched a mortgage- and asset-backed securities department with eight structured product veterans.

They will initially focus on secondary sales and trading of nonagency prime, Alt-A and subprime residential mortgage-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities and consumer and industrial asset-backed securities. They will expand to CDOs of MBS/ABS, and agency RMBS.

Managing director Sachin Jhangiani leads the group. He most recently led the West Coast-based structured products sales team at Banc of America Securities LLC and, before that, was BofA's head of origination and servicing sales in New York.

Joining as senior vice presidents are traders Sean Grettum and Aaron Read; institutional salespeople Earl Rix, Matthew Kulekofsky and Mohammed Noorali; and RMBS credit strategist Stevan Stevanovic. Grettum, Kulekofsky and Noorali worked at BofA. Rix was most recently at Piper Jaffray & Co. Read comes from Blue Mountain Capital Management LP, and Stevanovic was an MBS and ABS research analyst at Credit Suisse Group.

Charles Joyce joins from Citigroup Inc. as an assistant vice president for MBS/ABS trading and operations support.

DLA Piper announced that Ronald Borod and Jonathan Black joined its corporate and finance practice as partners. Borod was formerly chairman of Brown Rudnick LLP's structured finance group.

Check The Deal Pipeline for updates on these Movers & shakers:

• Neal Wolin now serves as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
• Lazard banker Jim Millstein joined the Treasury as a senior restructuring officer.
• Energy Investors Funds, a PE fund manager investing in the U.S. energy and electric power sector, hired Rob Franson as a VP.