BMO Capital Markets, the investment and corporate banking arm of BMO Financial Group, has promoted a new head for its financial sponsors group, which covers private equity. Dirk Leasure will be based in New York and will lead a team of investment bankers in New York and Chicago who specialise in helping US private equity firms.
BMO hires PE head in preparation for ‘substantial’ activity in 2010
Dirk Leasure, who previously worked with financial sponsors for Goldman Sachs, will head a team of investment bankers who specialise in private equity transactions.