New York,
March 26, 2009 – BMO Capital Markets, the investment and
corporate banking arm of BMO Financial Group, announced today that it has
hired senior investment banker Christopher Donohoe as a Managing Director
in its Financial Institutions group. Chris will be based in the firm’s
New York City office.
“We’re excited to have another banker of Chris’s caliber
join our investment banking practice. Chris’s expertise in the specialty
finance industry is a great fit for the team and his hiring is testament
to our continued commitment to our clients as well as the continued building
out of our U.S. platform in financial services,” said Erik van Nispen,
Managing Director and Sector Head, U.S. Financial Institutions, Investment & Corporate
Banking.
Prior to joining BMO Capital
Markets, Chris was a senior investment banker with Bank of America
and J.P. Morgan, where he spent the last
15 years advising specialty finance companies and banks on a wide variety
of M&A, debt and equity assignments. He is a graduate of the MBA
program at the University of Chicago and earned his undergraduate degree
at Duke University in North Carolina.
About BMO
Capital Markets U.S. Financial Institutions, Investment & Corporate
Banking
For more than 50 years, the
BMO Capital Markets Financial Institutions team has been providing
innovative financial solutions to help clients
meet the challenges and opportunities of the changing financial services
sector. The team’s comprehensive coverage includes futures & securities,
specialty finance companies, and banks and thrifts, as well as asset
managers, financial technology firms, and insurance companies. The team
of more than 45 professionals offers clients a full array of financial
products and services, including M&A advisory, public equity and
debt underwriting, syndicated lending, private placements, global treasury
services and global financial products.
About BMO Capital Markets
BMO Capital Markets is a leading full-service North American financial
services provider, with over 2,400 employees operating in 14 North American
offices and 26 worldwide, offering corporate, institutional and government
clients access to a complete range of investment and corporate banking
products and services. BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial
Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO),
one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North
America with
US$361 billion total assets and 37,000 employees as at January 31, 2009.
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