BMO appoints Kevin Sherlock as Leveraged finance head

The co-head of global financial sponsors Kevin Sherlock has resigned to be head of leveraged finance and private capital at the Bank of Montreal, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

One of the people who requested anonymity because of the appointment isn't yet public, said that Sherlock will join Canadian lender's investment banking arm BMO Capital Markets after a period of gardening leave.

A spokeswoman for BMO did not respond to a request for comment. A BofA spokesman didn't immediately make a statement. Sherlock didn't respond immediately to requests for comment.

Sherlock worked at Bank of America and its predecessor Merrill Lynch since 2014. He spent more than a decade at Deutsche Bank AG, where he was head of loan and high yield capital markets and Bankers Trust for about four years until it was bought by Deutsche Bank in 1999, according to his LinkedIn profile and Finra records.

The bank has made senior hires across Wall Street in recent months, including Sam Chaturvedi and Ryan Williams, both of whom are from Credit Suisse Group AG.

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