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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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