Citadel Securities has announced that three senior investment bankers have joined the firm marking the launch of its investment banking division.
Citadel Securities has announced that three senior investment bankers have joined the firm marking the launch of its investment banking division.
Todd Kaplan, who joined Citadel in March, will assume the role of head of investment banking for Citadel Securities, reporting to Rohit D’Souza, chief executive of Citadel Securities.
Brian Maier joins as head of industry groups and Carl Mayer joins as head of leveraged finance. Both will report to Kaplan.
The investment banking offering is the most recent addition to the Citadel Securities platform, which also includes multi-asset class market making, order execution services, and Citadel Solutions, a hedge fund administration business.
‘By bringing Todd to Citadel Securities to head up our banking effort, we are executing our strategy of developing a leading, fully integrated, client-facing franchise across investment banking and institutional sales and trading," says D’Souza. "Todd and his team are outstanding investment bankers with strong relationships who have experience across a broad spectrum of capital markets areas."
Kaplan adds: "Now more than ever, corporations are looking for sound, actionable advice. With Citadel Securities’ unique set of assets, I look forward to building our investment banking operation as we provide innovative products and services to a broad group of clients in an increasingly complex environment.’
Kaplan is an internationally recognised adviser to companies in multiple industries. Previously, he held senior management and coverage positions at Merrill Lynch, including head of global leveraged finance, capital markets and financing, global principal investments and corporate finance. Kaplan began his career at Merrill Lynch in 1986, after graduating from Yale University.
Maier is a 25-year investment banking veteran of Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs. His experience encompasses extensive management and origination responsibilities across industries and products. He has built a strong reputation within the investment banking industry having completed a wide variety of transactions for clients throughout the consumer, retail, media, education, real estate, hotel, gaming, travel and leisure sectors. Most recently, Maier was group head of consumer industries and equity private placements at Merrill Lynch.
Mayer brings more than 23 years of capital markets experience to his role at Citadel. He joins the firm from Merrill Lynch where he was head of leveraged finance capital markets and a member of the Origination Capital Committee. Prior to Merrill Lynch, he served as managing director in high yield capital markets at Deutsche Bank.
