New York broker-dealer
Guggenheim Capital Markets LLC launched a financial institutions group. It hired
Frank McCutchan and
Scott Schondau as managing directors of the group, based in Dallas. McCutchan and Schondau worked together for the past 10 years, focused on the community banking sector. They were managing directors at Bear, Stearns & Co., where they established the pooled trust preferred and subordinated debt program and headed the origination platform out of Dallas.
U.K. private equity firm
Sovereign Capital appointed
Richard Taylor as an assistant director to its investment team. Taylor arrives from
Octopus Private Equity, where he established and headed the Leeds office, leading deals in the lower-mid market. He previously spent seven years at
YFM Group.
Check The Deal Pipeline for updates on these Movers & shakers:
- Merriman Curhan Ford Group Inc. hired three senior equity research analysts.
- Leerink Swann LLC said Joshua Schimmer joined the firm as a managing director, biotechnology analyst.
- SecondMarket, a marketplace for illiquid assets, hired Richard Levin (pictured) as
general counsel, chief compliance officer and secretary to the board.
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