Thomas Weisel hires O'Loughlin, Cook, Torres, Maher for convertibles group

By Laura Lutz

Des Moines, Sept. 19 - Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. announced four new hires in its convertible debt securities trading business.

Gregory O'Loughlin was hired to continue to build the company's convertibles business. He previously ran convertible capital arbitrage at Descartes Capital and, before that, traded convertible bonds at Deutsche Bank Securities.

Bradford Cook, Christopher Maher and Miguel Torres were also hired for the convertibles team.

Cook was also at Descartes as a convertible bond credit analyst.

Torres was formerly head of the European and Asian convertible arbitrage team at UBS O'Connor, LLC.

Maher was previously at CIBC World Markets selling multi-strategy, convertible arbitrage.

The company also announced that Paul Slivon, its director of institutional sales, will assume responsibility for management of the convertible debt securities trading businesses. Slivon will also continue to work with institutional sales and the India research business.

"These recent hires add deep knowledge and extensive track records to our convertible trading business, an area that we are expanding aggressively," Slivon said.

Thomas Weisel is a San Francisco investment bank focused on the technology, healthcare and consumer sectors.

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