Reuters hires Summerville for M&A team

Anirban Sen, editor in charge of U.S. mergers and acquisitions at Reuters, sent out the following on Wednesday: I’m pleased to announce that Abigail Summerville has joined us as a M&A Correspondent, based in New York. In her new role, Abigail will focus on breaking news and landing the biggest scoops in the consumer and […]

Debtwire’s Bringardner steps into new role

Debtwire managing editor John Bringardner has taken over a wider role as executive editor of leveraged capital markets, overseeing journalists and analysts across Debtwire, Xtract and Creditflux. He will also continue to work with the product and client teams across ION Analytics. Bringardner has previously served as managing editor for emerging markets, global legal editor […]

Ledgard joins Debtwire as Latin America primary bond market reporter

Alvaro Ledgard is now a Latin America primary bond market reporter at Debtwire. Previously, he was an intern reporter at Bloomberg News. He has also worked as an economics and finance analyst, senior economics and finance analyst, subeditor, and then as editor-at-large at Semana Económica, a business and economics magazine in Peru. He also won […]

Debtwire hires Rose to cover high-yield bonds and leveraged loans

Debtwire has hired Philadelphia Business Journal reporter Kennedy Rose to cover high-yield bonds and leveraged loans. She will start March 7. At the Business Journal, she has been covering technology, startups, higher education, and residential real estate. Previously, she was a digital producer at the Journal. Rose has previously interned at the Journal and at Albany Business Review. […]

Knauth to cover business litigation for Reuters

Dietrich Knauth has joined Reuters to cover business litigation, including opioid lawsuits. He comes from Debtwire, where he was a reporter covering bankruptcy court cases. He was also a reporter at Private Equity Law Report and has covered private equity, with a focus on large institutional investors for Buyouts Insider in New York. He was […]

Sadovi joins Industry Dive as a senior reporter

Maura Sadovi has joined Industry Dive as a senior reporter at CFO Dive, covering issues finance executives are steering. She has also covered the commercial real estate market while also editing stories for Debtwire’s ABS site. She has also worked on Debtwire’s distressed corporate debt team. She has also written for The Wall Street Journal’s […]

Debtwire associate editor Caiger-Smith departs

Will Caiger-Smith, an associate editor at Debtwire, has left after more than 4 years for a new opportunity. He oversaw Debtwire’s leveraged finance coverage in North America, spanning from deal origination to primary issuance of high yield bonds and leveraged loans through to secondary market performance and company earnings. Caiger-Smith previously was at Institutional Financing […]

Euromoney hires Azevedo as associate editor at Inside P&C

Giovanna Bellotti Azevedo has joined Inside P&C, part of Insider Publishing and Euromoney Institutional Investor, as an associate editor. In her new role, she will be reporting and editing stories that cover the entire U.S. property and casualty insurance market, including big-ticket commercial insurance, U.S. specialty, and personal lines. Azevedo comes from Debtwire, where she […]

Debtwire reporter Morpurgo departs

Giulia C. Morpurgo, a senior reporter covering European distressed debt and restructuring for Debtwire, has left. Morpurgo joined Debtwire in 2018 as Southern Europe reporter. Before that, she was an emerging markets reporter covering Latin American FX and sovereigns for Bloomberg News. She has also freelanced for News-Decoder. She also served as co-editor-in-chief and writer […]

Perloff to cover energy at Debtwire

Catherine Perloff, a reporter at Debtwire, is now covering energy focused on leveraged finance and distress. Previously, she was covering leveraged finance, distress and private credit, with her beat including both middle market issuers and large caps, non-investment grade and distressed telecom companies. She was also an editorial intern on the wealth team at Forbes. […]