Broker-dealer hires sales and trading team

Knight Capital Group has announced the establishment of a European credit sales and trading team at fixed-income broker-dealer Knight Libertas, according to a press release.

The team is based in London and will include Neil Robertson, Andrew Linford, Tom Goodale, James Holdsworth, Simon Marriott, Spencer Harman, Daniel Cohen, Michael Levy, Nigel Perry, David Fenwick, Kayyor Rao, Justin Perry, Andrew Carrie and Geoff Capell.

Robertson and Linford will handle investment grade real money sales, Goodale and Holdsworth lead investment grade hedge fund sales, and Marriott and Harman cover high yield sales.

Fenwick and Rao complete the investment grade sales team while Justin Perry is a member of the high yield sales team. Cohen, Levy and Nigel Perry run trading, with Cohen focusing on high yield, Levy trading investment grade and crossover bonds and Perry handling financials. Carrie is Knight Libertas' desk analyst in investment grade and high yield Europe and Capell will oversee operations.

Linford was previously at UBS for 15 years, most recently covering institutional UK real money accounts. Goodale joins from Calyon and was director of hedge fund sales responsible for establishing and building a hedge fund team within fixed income credit. Holdsworth spent his entire career at UBS and was most recently executive director in UK IMG and hedge fund sales.

Neil Robertson, managing director of Knight Libertas, is responsible for managing the European credit sales and trading team and reports to Gary Katcher.

Knight Libertas provides secondary market liquidity and credit-based analysis across a range of fixed income securities, including investment grade and high yield bonds, bank loans, emerging market credit and sovereigns.