SG has recruited Hero Brahms, former chief financial officer of German forklift truck maker Linde, as a senior adviser in Germany as part of a drive to strengthen its regional corporate and investment banking coverage.

Brahms, who took on his new non-executive role at the French bank on Wednesday, awarded SG its first German equity-linked bond mandate in April, when the bank worked alongside Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein on a €550m ($670m) five-year convertible.