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Piper Sandler Expands Fixed Income Non-Agency Team with Five Key Hires

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Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR) announced the hiring of five key professionals to enhance its non-agency credit business. The new hires include managing directors Royce Sharp, Cliff Johnson, John Duffy, and Haley Rubin, along with vice president Deb Comunale. Sharp and Johnson bring over 20 years of experience from Amherst Pierpont Securities, while Duffy and Rubin come from Daiwa Securities and Mesirow Financial, respectively. These additions aim to strengthen Piper Sandler's trading and distribution capabilities, enhancing client service and creating synergies within their existing banking community.

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  • Hiring of five experienced professionals to enhance non-agency credit business.
  • Royce Sharp and Cliff Johnson bring two decades of RMBS experience.
  • New hires expected to create meaningful synergies within existing banking community.
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MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR), a leading investment bank, is pleased to announce the hiring of Royce Sharp, Cliff Johnson, John Duffy and Haley Rubin as managing directors, in addition to Deb Comunale as a vice president. These new hires mark Piper Sandler’s strategic build out in both trading and distribution capabilities of the firm’s non-agency credit business.

“We are committed to growing our non-agency business across all client verticals. Our new hires will dramatically enhance that directive,” said Alan Roth, head of structured products trading at Piper Sandler.

Royce Sharp and Cliff Johnson join Piper Sandler from Amherst Pierpont Securities, bringing more than two decades of experience building a non-agency RMBS business. As managing directors, they earned a stellar reputation among the hedge fund, money manager and insurance company communities. Coupling that with Piper Sandler’s existing banking community will create meaningful synergies.

Significant additions to the firm’s sales force includes John Duffy who brings over 20 years of trusted institutional sales experience, most recently as an executive director at Daiwa Securities. Haley Rubin joins Piper Sandler from Mesirow Financial where she was a managing director in institutional sales. And finally, Deb Comunale who served as a structured products salesperson at Citigroup.

“We are thrilled to have these new hires at Piper Sandler. They bring a tremendous amount of energy, product knowledge and long-standing relationships that will complement our existing platform well,” said Michael Piper, head of fixed income sales.

ABOUT PIPER SANDLER

Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR) is a leading investment bank driven to help clients Realize the Power of Partnership®. Securities brokerage and investment banking services are offered in the U.S. through Piper Sandler & Co., member SIPC and NYSE; in the U.K. through Piper Sandler Ltd., authorized and regulated by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority; and in Hong Kong through Piper Sandler Hong Kong Limited, authorized and regulated by the Securities and Futures Commission. Alternative asset management and fixed income advisory services are offered through separately registered advisory affiliates.

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