BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Regions
Financial Corp. today announced that Regions Securities, LLC has
further expanded its Corporate Finance Group by hiring two managing
directors, Gene Bowles and Daniel Hoverman. Bowles and Hoverman join
previous hires including Managing Director Rob Tyndall and others
following the 2016 launch of the Corporate Finance Group, which provides
capital raising and advisory services to Regions' corporate clients,
with an emphasis on the middle market.
Rit Amin, co-head of Corporate and Leveraged Finance said: "We continue
to look for ways to better serve our corporate clients and in today's
banking environment, being just a capital provider is not enough. Our
clients want strategic and financial advice as they look to grow and
build their businesses by utilizing the capital markets. We are excited
to add associates with experience across public, private debt and equity
markets along with significant advisory capabilities."
Bowles brings more than 20 years of investment banking and capital
markets experience, most recently with Cary Street Partners and prior to
that, Wells Fargo predecessor Wachovia Securities. His broad transaction
expertise includes private capital raising, merger and acquisition
advisory, leveraged finance, high yield capital markets, and significant
experience working with private equity groups. Bowles received an MBA
from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of
Virginia and B.A. in Government and Foreign Affairs from the University
of Virginia.
Hoverman joins Regions Securities from Houlihan Lokey where he was a
senior member of the firm's Mergers & Acquisition Group. Previously
Hoverman served with Credit Suisse in Hong Kong and UBS in New York, and
began his career as a corporate and securities attorney with Kirkland &
Ellis. Hoverman brings over 15 years of experience advising on complex
transactions, including public company, international, dual track and
similar situations, as well as restructuring, and capital markets
transactions. He graduated from Columbia Business School with an MBA and
received a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent
Scholar and John C. Olin Fellow. He received a B.A. in History from Yale
University.
Through its Corporate
Banking Group, Regions serves public and private companies
throughout the bank's geographic footprint as well as across the United
States through its Specialized Industry groups. Regions Capital Markets,
a division of Regions Bank, provides products and services including
syndicated loan facilities, interest rate, commodity and foreign
exchange risk hedging. Regions provides advisory and certain capital
raising services through Regions Securities LLC, a wholly-owned
subsidiary which serves as a broker-dealer to commercial clients and
acts in an advisory capacity to merger and acquisition transactions.
BlackArch Partners LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Regions, offers
merger and acquisition services to its institutional clients and
commercial entities.
About Regions Financial Corporation
Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF), with $125 billion in assets, is
a member of the S&P 500 Index and is one of the nation's largest
full-service providers of consumer and commercial banking, wealth
management, mortgage, and insurance products and services. Regions
serves customers across the South, Midwest and Texas, and through its
subsidiary, Regions Bank, operates approximately 1,500 banking offices
and 1,900 ATMs. Additional information about Regions and its full line
of products and services can be found at www.regions.com.

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