Brean Capital added Christopher Hogg as managing director and head of Capital Markets for debt and equity transactions.

Hogg is a Wall Street veteran, who spent 23 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was head of New Product Development and head of FIG Capital Markets. In those dual roles, Hogg was responsible for the development of the trust preferred/capital securities product, which became a major capital-raising strategy for banks, insurers and other financial institutions around the world. Hogg was responsible for billions of dollars of issuance in this space.

After Goldman, Hogg worked at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Macquarie Capital and InCapital. His role at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch was similar to the one he held at Goldman Sachs. However, he became more involved in private placements, as well as smaller, tailored public capital and debt raisings. This marked a transition from focusing on larger financial institutions to smaller companies, particularly regional and community banks, smaller insurers and finance companies.

While at Macquarie, Hogg did the First Kroll Bond-rated capital raising for community bank, United Community Bank of Georgia. Hogg also worked on a private placement of a $2 billion “Sidecar” fund investing in commercial aircraft leases for Air Lease Corporation, whose A- KBRA rating he also helped them attain.

Most recently, while at InCapital, Hogg consummated capital and funding transactions for Everbank, Wintrust and Eaglepoint.

“We are extremely excited to have Chris join our team. The experience and skillsets he brings to Brean will help us to better serve our financial institution clients by leveraging off our distribution platform to provide financing, as well as asset side services,” said Robert Fine, chief executive officer.

Peter McNierney, head of Investment Banking and Equities said, “Our plan is to fully integrate Chris’ liability-side business into our existing strong asset side business.”