SG Corporate & Investment Banking has hired Michael Finkelman, a former banker at rival French bank BNP Paribas, to run its new US leveraged finance business.

Finkelman, who will be based in New York, will spearhead SG's push in US leveraged finance. He will report to René de Laigue, global head of leveraged and acquisition finance in London, and Powell Robinson, head of financing for the Americas.