Jefferies hires Tim Kerry (Tim Kerry

(Bloomberg) -Jefferies Financial Group Inc., Tim Kerry, hired by Tim Kerry of Barclays PLC, has established its ranks to prepare for related mergers and acquisitions. The wave of financing.

Kerry will be the co -person in charge of EMEA lever financing with Jefferies, and operate the department with Bala Ramesh, Bala Ramesh, It is also the head of the EMEA debt capital market within the scope of fixed income. Private. A spokesperson for Jefferies and Barclays refused to comment.

The people said that Jefferies also recently hired Arnaud Collas of Citigroup Inc. as the managing director of European bond leverage financing. A spokesman for Citi Group refused to make comments, and Kerry did not respond to the comments request, and Collas could not comment.

After years of mute activities, financing related to acquisitions has begun to increase, banks are preparing to arrange more transactions to provide some of the most favorable investment bank fees.

The acquisition of Synthon International Holding BV is an example that Jefferies is one of the lenders of about 900 million euros (US $ 938 million) loans. Jefferies is also a consultant to private equity EQT AB, and may sell Karo Healthcare, Swedish consumer health business. Bloods are providing potential bidders with a debt package of about 1 billion euros.

In Barclays, Kerry runs EMEA’s financial origin. Prior to Barclays, he stayed in HSBC Holdings PLC for ten years as a leveraged financing role.

Barclays suffered a series of departure, including Kartik Subramanian-Nair, Kartik Subramanian, leaving Goldman Sachs Capital Market in London in November. The bank’s global leverage Financial Group co -director of Stephen Smith, a credit hedge fund Sona, who left John Aylward in 2023.

Barclays recently hired a leverage loan from NORDEA and a high -yield banker, Bjorn Andersen, and Anastasia Chernetskaya, who joined the director of Deutsche Bank Ag.

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