Sector developments and company hires

EMEA
Pan-European special situations and credit trading lawyer Justin Conway has joined McCarthy Denning as a partner in its banking and finance department. Conway, a dual-qualified solicitor in both England and Wales and New Zealand, was previously a partner at Jones Day. He has extensive experience in advising clients on all aspects of debt, investment and loan portfolio trading across key international markets.

Mizuho International has hired nine staffers within its European fixed income business. Among the new recruits are Sara Famouri, who has joined the securitised product sales team and will focus on developing the global franchise for the EMEA client base. Famouri was most recently at Wells Fargo, where she worked in the ABS sales team. Mikey Nguyen has also joined Mizuho as a trader in the structured trading and financing team. He will be focusing on growing the bank’s structured financing activity, in collaboration with other Mizuho entities. Nguyen joins from Deutsche Bank, where he was responsible for credit solutions and liquid asset financing.

North America
Fitch has appointed Kevin Kendra as its new head of US RMBS and Derek Miller as its new head of US structured credit. Both analysts will report to North American structured finance and covered bond group head Rui Pereira. Concurrently, former US RMBS head Grant Bailey steps into a new global role building on Fitch's agenda for thematic research, enhanced analytics and criteria that cut across securitised asset classes and regions. Bailey will report to global head of structured finance and covered bonds Marjan van der Weijden.