Daniel Leland Joins B. Riley FBR as Head of Fixed Income Capital Markets
February 22 2018 - 9:00AM
B. Riley FBR, Inc. (“B. Riley FBR”), a full service investment bank
and wholly-owned subsidiary of B. Riley Financial, Inc. announced
today that Daniel Leland has joined the firm as Head of Fixed
Income Capital Markets, a division which offers a broad array of
investment, trading, analytic and underwriting services.
Mr. Leland brings over 30 years of capital markets and fixed
income trading and underwriting experience. In his new role, he
will be overseeing institutional sales and trading and the
Fundamental Broker Inter-Dealer group, a division which offers
dealer-to-dealer “voice” brokerage services to the institutional
dealer community.
“Dan’s experience with building a Fixed Income Capital Markets
operation, combined with his successful track record and extensive
industry expertise, enables us to expand and strengthen our
existing fixed income platform,” said Bryant Riley, Co-Chief
Executive Officer of B. Riley FBR. “We’re thrilled to have Dan join
our team and see him contribute to our growing success.”
Dan Leland commented: “The B. Riley FBR platform is unique in
its diverse set of resources and services offered to clients. I’m
excited to join the firm and look forward to building upon this
team and expanding the level of services we can offer in the
capital markets segment.”
Prior to joining B. Riley FBR, Mr. Leland served on the
Executive Management team at Southwest Securities (SWS) from 1995
through 2017. He joined SWS as Executive Vice President, where he
was responsible for the firm’s Capital Markets division and served
as Executive Vice President of the firm’s former parent company,
SWS Group, Inc. Throughout his time at SWS, Mr. Leland held several
leadership positions with the company’s subsidiaries and was
credited with successfully expanding the fixed income and equity
business, opening offices strategically across the United States
and expanding the business reach internationally. In addition, Mr.
Leland added credit trading and sales, mortgage and TBA trading and
sales; as well as equity syndicate, which introduced preferred
underwriting and Closed End Fund underwriting, and Unit Investment
Trust (UIT) underwriting, making the firm the top UIT underwriter
in the country. Prior, Mr. Leland served as President of Barre
& Company, a Dallas-based broker-dealer which was acquired by
SWS in 1995, where he was responsible for fixed income trading and
sales.
Mr. Leland received his B.B.A. in Finance from University of
Iowa and holds multiple securities licenses. He will be based in B.
Riley FBR’s Dallas office.
About B. Riley FBR, Inc.
B. Riley FBR, Inc. is a leading investment bank which
provides corporate finance, research and sales and trading to
corporate, institutional and high net worth individual clients.
Investment banking services include initial secondary and follow-on
offerings, institutional private placements and merger and
acquisitions advisory services. The firm is nationally recognized
for its highly ranked proprietary equity research.
B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:RILY), through its
subsidiaries, provides collaborative financial services and
solutions to the capital raising and financial advisory needs of
public and private companies and high net worth
individuals. The company operates through several wholly-owned
subsidiaries, including B. Riley FBR,
Inc., Wunderlich Securities, Inc., Great American Group,
LLC, B. Riley Capital Management, LLC (which
includes B. Riley Asset Management, B. Riley Wealth
Management, and Great American Capital Partners, LLC) and B.
Riley Principal Investments, a group that makes proprietary
investments in other businesses, such as the acquisition
of United Online, Inc.
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