Deutsche Bank hired Philip Pucciarelli and Robert Verdier, two senior Healthcare Investment bankers, from BMO Capital Markets.

Pucciarelli will join as co-head of Healthcare Investment Banking alongside Ross Hammerman who joined the bank in October 2016. Pucciarelli has nearly 20 years of healthcare investment banking experience and was most recently managing director and head of Healthcare Services Investment Banking at BMO.

Prior to BMO, Pucciarelli spent 12 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he focused on Healthcare Services. He will be based in New York and report to Mark Fedorcik, head of Corporate Finance Americas and co-head of CIB Americas.

Verdier also joins from BMO as a managing director in Healthcare Investment Banking reporting to Pucciarelli and Hammerman. He spent the last year and a half with BMO’s Healthcare Services Investment Banking team focused on community-based healthcare, including providers of consumer/retail health and post-acute care services. Prior to BMO he spent six years at Jefferies and the seven years prior at UBS.