Lazard chooses Brendan Dyson to lead new convertible securities advisory team

By Devika Patel

Knoxville, Tenn., March 11 - Lazard Ltd. announced in a press release it has hired Brendan Dyson as a managing director in its corporate finance advisory group.

Dyson was recently managing director and convertible securities group head at Piper Jaffray. Based in San Francisco, he will lead a new convertible securities advisory team.

While at Piper Jaffray from 2002 until 2007, Dyson led the convertible origination, advisory and sales and trading practice. Prior to joining Piper Jaffray, he was a managing director with Robertson Stephens for ten years, where he founded and built its convertible securities desk.

"Brendan is a top-tier convertible securities professional, who has built his 25-year career on providing quality service and advice to clients on complex refinancing and corporate finance," Lazard North America chief executive officer Kenneth Jacobs said in the release. "He and his team will support our existing corporate finance advisory business, and bolster our efforts on the West Coast."

Lazard's corporate finance advisory group provides advice to corporations with respect to all forms of public and private equity and equity-linked financings. Lazard is a New York-based financial advisory and asset management firm.

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