Event desks are recruiting ahead of an anticipated uptick in UK M&A deals, with the UK seeing more than $300bn worth of deals to June 2021 on a rolling 12-month basis, according to Citi research.
Shingo Yatsui will run the new entity in Tokyo at BTIG, focusing on building a local team and strengthening the investment banking business.
Neil Roberts and Matt Austin join BTIG as equity sales trader and equity trader respectively in its London-based institutional equities division from Barclays.
Hugo Clark joins BTIG from UBS to lead European trading and distribution operations in the latest senior hire for the broker.
Imran Khan and Andrew Chappell join BTIG as managing directors focused on EMEA loan and claims trading and loan sourcing and sales on the fixed income credit desk in London.
Buy-side trading veteran Michael Conze joins BTIG as director of outsourced trading as the broker aims to expand its reach.
Luke Hodges joins the senior European leadership team at BTIG after 17 years with investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Samantha Huggins will join BTIG as managing director after more than 20 years’ experience with Citi and Merrill Lynch.
Free trading initiative from BTIG is aimed at charitable, state and union pension funds, as well as medical and educational endowments and emergency services benefit programs.
Drew Doscher has worked in distressed debt trading for three decades in senior roles at BTIG, Jefferies, Barclays and UBS.