Dawnay, Day Corporate Broking has hired a real estate analyst as it expands its research and sales teams ahead of a merger with the corporate finance division of Dawnay, Day Group, that is scheduled to complete in the next couple of months.

Roger Leboff has joined the small and mid-cap broking business as a global real estate research analyst from Edison Investment Research, where he covered the property sector. The research team has one analyst covering renewable energy stocks and is in the process of hiring another to cover the support services sector.