Guggenheim Securities, the investment banking and capital markets division of Guggenheim Partners, hired Lackland Bloom as a senior managing director in the energy investment banking group.

Bloom has more than 17 years of investment banking experience. He spent 16 years at JPMorgan, serving as co-head of its Oil & Gas Investment Banking Group. He joins Guggenheim from Deutsche Bank Securities, where he served as managing director and head of the Houston Investment Banking office.

“We are pleased to welcome Lackland to Guggenheim,” said Mark Van Lith, co-CEO and head of Investment Banking at Guggenheim Securities. “His strong industry knowledge and deep client relationships in the E&P and oilfield services sectors are an important addition to our rapidly growing energy investment banking practice.”