Bill Dobson joined Macquarie Capital as managing director and head of Corporate Credit Trading in the Credit Sales and Trading group. Based in New York, he will be responsible for trading leveraged loans and high yield bonds.

Dobson has more than 25 years experience in leveraged loan trading and syndication. He was most recently co-head of Deutsche Bank’s U.S. Loan Trading practice and oversaw daily cash loan trading activities with the firm’s sales force and loan market investors. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Dobson worked for Goldman Sachs, where he was responsible for Par Loan trading activity in a number of industry sectors.

Prior to Goldman, Dobson was a managing director, Loan Syndications and Trading at First Union/Wachovia, where he managed the firm’s Par Loan trading activity. Prior to First Union, he held various high yield loan sales and trading positions with Bear Stearns, Bank of Montreal, Banque Paribas and Sanwa Bank.

“We are pleased to have Bill join the team to strengthen our leveraged loan trading capabilities out of New York,” said Andy Stock, senior managing director and head of Credit Sales and Trading for Macquarie Capital. “His extensive loan trading experience and long-standing client relationships further strengthen Macquarie’s integrated Leveraged Finance platform. As Macquarie’s Debt Capital Markets business continues to grow, loan investors tell us that they value secondary market liquidity now more than ever and the addition of Bill helps our team deliver that value.”