Alastair Mankin and Charlie Hawkesworth have joined BTIG from Clear Street as the firm looks to build out its event-driven offering, The TRADE can reveal.
Both most recently served in even-driven strategies roles at the prime broker and have had similar career paths thus far.
Before joining Clear Street, the duo worked together at TD, Hawkesworth in an event-driven sales trading role as part of the alternative equity strategies team, and Mankin in a role focused on event driven M&A arbitrage.
Before that, both also served in similar event-driven roles at Olivetree Financial.
The appointments of Mankin and Hawkesworth follow on from BTIG’s recent appointment of Will Kain back in May. He had most recently served eight years at Berenberg, most recently in an equity sales trading role.
Elsewhere, BTIG recently announced a new outsourced trading-focused hire, naming UBS’ Ian Power head of EMEA outsource trading as the firm continues to expand its outsourced trading offering amid market shifts in the space.
In his new role, Power is set to build out the offering – as he did previously at UBS – across EMEA. Currently, BTIG’s outsourced service comprises six outsource buy-side trading desks globally with more than 25 dedicated outsource traders.
BTIG had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.