ARLINGTON, Va., March 31, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FBR & Co. (Nasdaq:FBRC) (FBR), a leading investment bank serving the middle market, announced the hiring of Messieurs Eric M. Corrigan as Managing Director, Financial Institutions, and John W. Patterson as Managing Director, Healthcare. Mr. Corrigan will be covering depository institutions, primarily in the southeastern United States. Mr. Patterson will be covering companies in the healthcare services sector. Both will be based in FBR's New York office.
"We are extremely pleased to have attracted these two Wall Street veterans to FBR. Both Eric and John bring a wealth of experience, expertise, and contacts to our banking practice and will complement our existing teams very well," said Kenneth Slosser, Executive Vice President and Head of Investment Banking at FBR. "Adding strategic resources in both our newer industry groups as well as in those of historic strength for FBR is a valuable and ongoing endeavor."
Eric M. Corrigan comes to FBR with more than twenty years of experience in investment banking. He has held senior positions at Citigroup, Bank of America, Macquarie Capital and most recently Keefe, Bruyette & Woods where he served as Managing Director within the Depository Institutions group. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado.
John W. Patterson began his career covering the healthcare industry in 1989 at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He has held senior positions at Deutsche Bank Securities, RBC Capital Markets, Coady Diemar Partners, and Headwaters MB. He has an undergraduate degree from Bucknell University and a M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
FBR & Co. (Nasdaq:FBRC) provides investment banking, merger and acquisition advisory, institutional brokerage, and research services through its subsidiary FBR Capital Markets & Co. FBR focuses capital and financial expertise on the following industry sectors: consumer; diversified industrials; energy & natural resources; financial institutions; healthcare; insurance; real estate; and technology, media & telecom. FBR is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with offices throughout the United States. For more information, please visit www.fbr.com.
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