DC Advisory, the firm formed after Japan’s Daiwa Capital Markets acquired Close Brothers' corporate finance business in July 2009, has promoted three dealmakers in Europe to managing director, lifting its senior ranks to 30.

The firm has named Benoit Thébault, the Paris-based co-head of French real estate M&A, François Prioux, who specialises in technology, media and telecoms and is also based in France, and former JP Morgan banker Neale Marvin, who joined DC in 2014 and is a London-based infrastructure adviser, as new MDs, according to a statement.