SG, the corporate and investment banking division of Société Générale, has re-hired Chris Lovgren, who began his career as a graduate trainee at the French bank's Paris office, and will now become a director in the European leveraged loans team in London.

Lovgren, who start next month reporting to Chris Baines, head of European loans distribution. For the past four years he has been in the leveraged loan sales team at UBS in London. Before that, he worked in SG's loan syndication group in Paris.