Lazard hired Jason Hutchinson as a managing director on its Middle Market Telecommunications, Media & Technology group. Hutchinson will be based in San Francisco.

Hutchinson has advised clients in the technology industry on M&A and other financial transactions for more than two decades across a number of subsectors, including data networking, internet and social media, semiconductors and software infrastructure.

Prior to joining Lazard, he was a managing director and head of Global Technology M&A at Oppenheimer & Co., and served as head of Technology M&A at Houlihan Lokey. He also held similar positions at Merrill Lynch and Piper Jaffray.

Lazard’s Middle Market Advisory practice provides financial and strategic advice on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity recapitalizations and financial restructurings to mid-sized companies.