SG has strengthened its German leveraged finance team with the hire of two bankers in Frankfurt as the French corporate and investment banking subsidiary of Société Générale continues to revamp its European leveraged debt business.

Joachim Erdle joins SG as a vice-president to boost the bank's debt origination and execution capability for mid-cap and large-cap companies in Germany. He was previously head of acquisition and leveraged finance at Landesbank Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart, where he was involved in several private equity, asset-backed debt and equity capital market deals.