Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) expanded its restaurant-finance platform to cover hotel franchises with the hiring of two veteran bankers to its restaurant and hospitality finance team, which is part of MUFG’s corporate and investment banking division.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) expanded its newly formed direct lending business and hired Claude Mattessich and Will McCarthy as managing directors and senior originators.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) launched a direct lending group that will focus on providing loans to the bank’s private equity sponsor clients to support their portfolio company LBO and recapitalization transactions. Matt Maley will lead the team.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) hired Garret Rowan as head of its leveraged loan trading group and Mike Macchia as a salesperson in leveraged finance sales. Both will be based in New York.
Ray Barretto joined Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group as a director and head ABS trader. Based in New York, Barretto will report to Michael McCarthy, head of macro trading.
Yezdan Badrakhan will join Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) as managing director and head of U.S. esoteric asset-backed securities. Badrakhan previously launched Morgan Stanley’s structured products capital markets transportation business.
According to the annual outlook from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s capital markets team, corporates have embarked on a “feverish pace” of capital-expenditure investment and strategic activity in response to a rapidly evolving landscape.
The U.S. economy is moving from a post-reopening boom phase toward a moderating period, which, depending on policy prescription, may end up feeling like a mid-cycle slowdown in the second half of 2022, according to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
Jess Sodaski joined Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group as managing director and head of investment grade credit sales. Sodaski will be responsible for leading MUFG’s investment grade sales strategy across the United States.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group hired Kimberly Boulmetis as a managing director and head of U.S. financial institutions for its debt capital markets group. Boulmetis has 25 years of experience covering the capital markets and financial institutions.