Rush Street Capital hired two new associates, Patrick Kelly and James Sheehan, who will work out of the firm’s Chicago headquarters location.

Kelly and Sheehan will focus on underwriting, sourcing and placing debt for middle market transactions as part of the Debt Capital Markets team.

Kelly most recently worked at West Suburban Bank as a senior underwriter in their Commercial Lending division, supporting the bank’s lending practices to Chicago-based companies.

Sheehan previously worked in Institutional Sales at Zacks Investment Research, where he sold research platforms to portfolio managers, CIOs and financial advisors at broker dealers, RIAs and other institutions.

Rush Street Capital is a Chicago-based investment bank, focused on the middle market and the lower middle market. The firm’s flagship products include debt private placements and debt capital markets.