Chris Mihok is leaving Keefe, Bruyette & Woods to join JPMorgan $JPM Chase in a managing director role focused on bank coverage, according to a company spokesperson. Mihok is set to start in early July.
Clay Robinson and Andrew Spicehandler, the co-heads of North America banks coverage at JPMorgan, will serve as Mihok's supervisors in the new position, the spokesperson said. The hire expands JPMorgan's financial institutions group.
Among the transactions tied to the group's recent activity, JPMorgan $JPM advised on the £9.9 billion ($13.4 billion) deal in which Nuveen is acquiring Schroders, a move that marks the end of more than two centuries of independence for the storied London-based firm, the spokesperson said.