Company hires and sector developments

Europe

Alantra has hired James Fadel as md. He was previously head of structured finance advisory at Deloitte.

DBRS has opened a new office in Madrid, making this its third European office - it is already up and running with analysts having relocated to Madrid from the London office. It will assign ratings to serve market participants looking for expertise in the analysis of sovereigns, banks, covered bonds, securitisations and ultimately corporate risk.

Mayer Brown has recruited Dasha Sobornova to its banking and finance practice as a partner, based in London. Previously a senior associate at Paul Hastings, Sobornova advises arrangers, investment managers, issuers and corporate service providers on a range of structured finance work, with a particular focus on CLO transactions.

US

Finitive, a financial technology platform providing institutional investors with direct access to alternative lending investments, has appointed Steven Lee to lead the company's San Francisco office and Guido Geissler as head of capital markets based in New York. Prior to Finitive, Steven Lee worked as partner, cio, and portfolio manager at Eaglewood Capital Management, where he led the effort to pioneer Eaglewood's software and algorithms to enable programmatic analysis and purchasing of loans in the online lending sector. Geissler has extensive structured finance experience and previously worked in Macquarie’s credit markets division involved in origination, structuring and managing portfolios for principal investments and financing solutions across the capital structure for specialty lenders in the consumer, small business, corporate middle market, equipment finance, factoring and commercial receivable or residential real estate space.

Standard Solar has hired Dan Dobbs as evp, structured finance. He was previously an executive at SunEdison and co-founder of Solar Grid.