BGL adds to capital markets staff

Cleveland-based investment banking firm Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. (BGL), which has established an ongoing presence in the waste and recycling financing sector, has hired David L. Koch as a new managing director.

Koch, who will be based in New York, will lead the firm’s activities in equity capital markets (ECM) and will co-lead the company’s Capital Markets Group along with Jason F. Sutherland, who also leads the firm’s Debt Capital Markets staff.

BGL says Koch’s hire also will contribute as the company’s Capital Markets Group begins to “offer an enhanced suite of capital markets solutions addressing corporate financing needs across client capital structures and life cycles.”

Koch has more than 23 years of investment banking experience, focusing on equity and equity-linked transactions in the United States and Europe in numerous sectors and industries.

Prior to joining BGL, Koch was head of Equity Capital Markets at London-based GP Bullhound, leading the firm’s ECM activity for clients globally, according to BGL. Before that, Koch was a managing director and ECM head of Southern Europe at Barclays in London.

“I’m excited to join BGL and bring new equity capital markets products, capital formation solutions and advisory support to all of our clients as they look to navigate an increasingly dynamic market environment,” Koch says.

“In today’s continuously changing capital markets climate, our clients encounter new challenges daily, which means they need bankers who can address those challenges as they arise with novel approaches and creative solutions. BGL has a strong reputation for being agnostic, agile and well connected across the capital markets landscape, and I look forward to helping the firm build on its existing capabilities and reputation.”