Jefferies has hired Tim Kerry as co-head of EMEA Leveraged Finance, according to market sources.
As reported by LCD on Jan. 28, Kerry will work in his role alongside Bala Ramesh — the bank’s longstanding leveraged finance co-head who is also head of EMEA debt capital markets within fixed income. Kerry joins from Barclays, where he had worked since 2018 and was latterly head of EMEA Leveraged Finance Origination, according to his LinkedIn profile. Prior to that he worked at HSBC and RBS.
Kerry’s hire comes at the same time as the appointment of Arnaud Collas, who will be joining the Jefferies EMEA leveraged finance team as a managing director from Citi. Collas joined Citi in 2018 where he was a director, from Credit Suisse.
Jefferies’ expansion in its EMEA business platform follows the hire of Simon Francis from Citi last year to lead the bank’s financing solutions to clients across the region for investment banking. Also this year, Ramesh’s role expanded to include head of EMEA debt capital markets as well as co-head of leveraged finance.
A spokesperson for Jefferies declined to comment.
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