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Jefferies Group announced the appointment of Rohit Bansal as a managing director and head of distressed and special situations trading in its fixed income department.

Bansal joins the firm from Citigroup, where he spent four years and was a managing director and head of distressed debt trading. Previously, he worked in distressed debt trading at Goldman Sachs. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the appointment of Michael Collinson as a managing director and European co-head of consumer and retail investment banking.

Collinson will be based in the firm’s London office and will partner with Robert Foster, European co-head consumer and retail investment banking.

Collinson brings to Jefferies 18 years of experience and joins the firm from The Royal Bank of Scotland (and its predecessor ABN Amro), where he spent seven years and was a managing director in the consumer industries group of the global banking and markets division, responsible for consumer products. Previously, he spent eight years at Credit Suisse First Boston in Europe focusing on mergers and acquisitions and capital raisings for leading consumer companies. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the appointments of Guy Cornelius as a managing director and head of sterling credit sales, and Christian Janssen as a managing director and head of commercial real estate debt capital markets Europe.

Cornelius will be responsible for the sales of GBP-denominated fixed income securities, and will report to Jon Pliner and Frank Cerveny, co-heads of Jefferies’ European credit business.

Cornelius brings to the company, more than 22 years of experience and joins the firm from Nomura, where he was a managing director and co-head of fixed income, currency and commodities (FICC) sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Janssen will be responsible for European commercial real estate-related capital markets transactions, including commercial mortgage-backed securities and loans secured on European commercial real estate, and will report to Steve Hulett and Craig Tipping, co-heads of Jefferies’ European MBS/ABS group.

Janssen brings to the company, more than 15 years of experience, and joins the firm from Barclays Capital, where he spent seven years and was most recently a managing director in the commercial real estate finance group. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the addition of Christopher Burns as a managing director in the firm’s leveraged finance investment banking group. He will be based in the firm’s New York office.

Burns brings to the company more than 15 years of experience, and joins the firm from Goldman Sachs, where he spent the last nine years, including seven years in leveraged finance investment banking, most recently as co-head of industrials leveraged finance. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the appointment of James F. Parsley as a managing director in public private infrastructure group.

Parsley is based in Denver and will join managing director Paul Kopsky in the expansion of the firm’s global infrastructure and project finance capabilities. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the appointment of Biren Amin as a managing director and senior equity research analyst covering biotechnology companies.

Amin brings to the companny more than 15 years of industry experience, and joins the firm from WJB Capital Group, where he was an equity research analyst. Previously, he was a biotechnology analyst at FTN Equity Markets, and held similar equity research roles at Stanford Financial and Prudential Equity Group. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the addition of four professionals who have recently joined the firm as managing directors in Asia.

Marcus Okuno joins the firm as a managing director in equity sales in Tokyo. Okuno joins Jefferies from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he spent 13 years and was most recently a director in equity sales. Previously, he was a vice president in equity sales at Robertson Stephens and, prior to that, worked for Salomon Smith Barney in equity Derivatives sales.

Chua Lee Leng joins the firm as a managing director in equity sales and trading in Singapore. Chua brings to Jefferies just over 17 years of experience and joins the firm from UBS, where she was executive director, regional equity sales. Previously, she was head of equity sales at HSBC in Singapore, and prior to that was a director in equity sales at Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong and Australia.

Lisa Lau joins the firm as a managing director and co-head of Hong Kong and China sales trading in Hong Kong. Lau brings to Jefferies 17 years of experience and joins the firm from China International Capital Corporation, where she spent seven years and was an executive director and head of equity sales trading. Previously, she spent four years at Societe Generale, where she was a sales trader covering the Asia region. Prior to that, she was head of Hong Kong trading at Paribas.

Conor O’Mara joins the firm as a managing director in equity sales and trading in Hong Kong. O’Mara brings to Jefferies 17 years of experience and joins from Morgan Stanley, where he was an executive director running a long/short Asian technology book in that firm’s strategic investment group. Previously, he was a fund manager at Balyasny Asset Management, covering Asian technology stocks, and prior to that, founded and became the fund manager of the HSBC global technology alpha fund, a market neutral long/short fund focused on Asian technology stocks. Before that, he co-founded Arete Research, Europe’s first independent research broker. He started his career at Dresdner RCM, managing global equity portfolios, with a focus on Japan. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the appointment of Daniel Gilman as a managing director in municipal securities trading. He is based in the firm’s New York office.

Gilman joins the firm from Fundamental Advisors, a municipal bond private equity firm, where he was co-head of investments. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the addition of Anthony Fitzpatrick, who joins the firm as a managing director and head of european chemicals investment banking. He will be based in the firm’s London office. Mr. Fitzpatrick brings approximately 20 years of investment banking experience to Jefferies and joins the firm from UBS, where he was based in London and was a managing director and global head of chemicals investment banking. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced that Kunal Bajaj has been appointed as a managing director and head of India equity sales. Bajaj has 11 years of industry experience and joins Jefferies from Credit Suisse where he was a director in institutional equity sales covering clients based in Asia.

Govind Chellappa has been appointed as a managing director and head of India research and as senior equity research analyst covering the auto and consumer industries. Chellappa has 12 years of industry experience and joins Jefferies from Credit Suisse where he was a director in equity research covering the automobile and consumer sectors. Previously, he was a vice president in equity research at Deutsche Bank.

Anand Agarwal has been appointed as a senior vice president and senior equity research analyst covering the real estate industry. Agarwal has nine years of industry experience and joins Jefferies from Credit Suisse where he was a vice president in equity research covering the real estate and cement sectors. Previously, he was an equity analyst at UBS.

Ramnath Iyer has been appointed as a managing director in equity sales focused on serving the Indian Market. Iyer has 21 years of industry experience and joins Jefferies from Pioneer Investments where he was a senior portfolio manager. Previously, he worked as an emerging markets strategist at CLSA in London and as India portfolio manager and strategy Coordinator at Uob Asset Management.

Bajaj, Chellappa and Agarwal will be based in Mumbai, and Iyer will be based in the firm’s Singapore office. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the appointment of Tim Sullivan and Harold DeRolph as managing directors in the firm’s investment grade corporate bond business. They are both based in New York.

Sullivan has nearly 17 years of industry experience and joins Jefferies from UBS, where he was a managing director in credit trading. Previously, he spent nearly six years at Credit Suisse and, prior to that, 10 years at Merrill Lynch.

DeRolph has nearly 25 years of industry experience and joins Jefferies from Citadel Securities, where he was a portfolio manager for distressed credit and event-driven equities. Previously, he held a similar role at Deutsche Bank, and prior to that he spent eleven years at Merrill Lynch. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group appointed Clifford Lanier as a managing director and head of fixed income cross product sales.

Lanier brings to Jefferies 20 years of fixed income experience and joins the firm after three years with Deutsche Bank, where he was a managing director for fixed income sales and head of generalist sales. Previously, he spent 16 years at Merrill Lynch in fixed income sales where he was most recently a director in the fixed income strategic solutions group. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the appointment of Sean George and Richard Roche as managing directors and senior traders in the firm’s investment grade corporate bond business. They are both based in New York.

George joins Jefferies from Deutsche Bank, where he spent two years and was a managing director and head of investment grade credit default swap and credit electronic trading.

Roche joins Jefferies from Morgan Stanley, where he spent nine years and was most recently a managing director and co-head of investment grade corporate bond trading.

Jefferies Group also announced the addition of Caspar Bentinck as a managing director who will lead the firm’s financial institutions debt capital markets business. He will be based in Jefferies’ New York office.

Bentinck is an experienced and highly respected debt capital markets investment banker. He brings to Jefferies nearly 15 years of investment banking experience and joins the firm from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was a managing director and led the debt capital markets effort for depository institutions in the FIG capital markets & financing group. Previously, he spent eight years at Lehman Brothers in their high grade syndicate group in New York and London. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the appointment of Jerome Doyle as a managing director in municipal securities trading. He is based in the firm’s New York office.

Doyle will focus on high net worth, middle markets and electronic trading platforms.

Doyle joins Jefferies from UBS, where he spent 13 years and was most recently a managing director and manager of that firm’s Northeast municipal trading group. -Business Wire

Jefferies & Company has appointed David Murphy as managing director for corporate bond sales in its investment-grade sales and trading group He is based in New York.

Murphy is responsible for client coverage and service as part of Jefferies’ investment-grade sales force. He reports to Tom Thees, head of investment-grade corporate bond sales and trading.

Murphy joins Jefferies from Morgan Stanley.

Murphy’s appoint is part of the firm’s continued efforts to expand its fixed-income division which include the recent additions of Paul Kopsky as managing director in the military housing mortgage business, Danford Peterson as managing director in municipal securities trading, Alix Bernard as managing director in European credit sales and Dirk Schlochtermeyer as head of European insurance services. -The Bond Buyer

Jefferies Group announced the appointment of Allan Heye as a managing director in portfolio sales trading.

Heye joins the company after 14 years with Credit Suisse, where he was a director in portfolio trading sales. Previously, he was co-head of Matif Trading at BZW Paris and head of German-Listed derivatives trading at BZW Frankfurt.

Jefferies Group also announced the appointment of Amin Arjomand as a managing director in distressed sales, and Nathaniel Morse as a senior vice president in distressed trading.

Previously, Arjomand was a managing director in the distressed products group at Deutsche Bank.

Morse was previously a vice president on the distressed credit trading desk at Citigroup. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the expansion of the investment grade sales and trading group with the addition of David L. Murphy, who joins as a managing director for corporate bond sales.

Murphy brings to Jefferies more than 20 years of experience and joins the firm from Morgan Stanley, where he spent 17 years and was most recently an executive director in fixed income sales and trading. Previously, he worked in fixed income sales at Dillon Read & Co. and Wertheim Schroeder and traded municipal bonds at Citigroup. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the appointment of Alexander Yavorsky as a managing director in the firm’s financial institutions investment banking group.

Yavorsky will lead the firm’s efforts to provide comprehensive balance sheet and funding strategies to its financial services clients. He will be based in New York.

Yavorsky joined the firm from Moody’s Investors Service, where he spent the last 11 years, most recently served as senior analyst in the banking, finance and securities group. -Business Wire

In the continued development of the firm’s fixed income division, Jefferies Group announced the appointment of Danford Peterson as a managing director in municipal securities trading. He is based in the firm’s New York office.

Peterson joins Jefferies from PIMCO, where he was a portfolio manager focused on municipals as a senior vice president. Previously, he spent more than 10 years with Goldman Sachs, and was most recently a vice president on that firm’s municipal trading desk. -Business Wire

Jefferies Group announced the addition of Peter Bacchus, who joins the firm as joint head of European investment banking and global head of metals and mining investment banking.

In addition five other investment bankers will join the metals and mining investment banking group, including Richard Allan, who joins as a managing director and European head of metals and mining investment banking.

Bacchus and Allan will be based in the firm’s London office.

In his role as joint head of European investment banking, Bacchus will partner with Dominic Lester, joint head of European investment banking and European head of technology and telecommunications investment banking.

Bacchus brings to the company 20 years of investment banking experience and joins the firm from Morgan Stanley, where he was a managing director and global head of metals and mining investment banking. Previously, he served as a managing director at Citigroup where he was head of Asia-Pacific industrials investment banking and co-head of global metals and mining investment banking based in Sydney, Jakarta and London.

Allan brings to the company over 13 years of metals and mining investment banking experience, and joins the firm from Morgan Stanley where he was a managing director in the metals and mining investment banking group. -Business Wire