Knight Libertas Appoints Al Lhota as Managing Director, Head of U.S. High Yield, Distressed and Bank Loan Sales
July 20 2009 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
GREENWICH, Conn. and JERSEY CITY, N.J., July 20 /PRNewswire/ --
Knight Libertas LLC, a subsidiary of Knight Capital Group, Inc.
(NASDAQ:NITE), today announced the appointment of Al Lhota as
Managing Director, Head of U.S. High Yield, Distressed and Bank
Loan Sales. Knight Libertas is an institutional fixed income
broker-dealer providing sales, trading and research across a broad
range of securities as well as capital markets services. "Al
Lhota's expertise and reputation within the fixed income industry
are unsurpassed, " said Gary Katcher, Executive Vice President,
Head of Global Institutional Fixed Income at Knight Capital Group.
"He is a consummate professional with strong client focus as a
salesman, team leader and strategic decision-maker. We are
fortunate to have him join us at Knight Libertas." Mr. Lhota has
more than twenty years experience in fixed income sales. Prior to
joining Knight Libertas, Al led High Yield teams at RBS Greenwich
Capital Markets and UBS. In his role at Knight Libertas, Al is
responsible for leading sales of High Yield, Distressed and Bank
Loans to institutional firms. He reports directly to Mr. Katcher.
"I look forward to working with Gary and the team he's assembled.
Our goal is to continue building the best distribution platform in
the industry," said Lhota. Mr. Lhota is based in the Greenwich
office, phone 203.629.9230 or . Biography Al Lhota Managing
Director, Head of U.S. High Yield, Distressed and Bank Loan Sales
Knight Libertas LLC Al Lhota, Managing Director, Head of U.S. High
Yield, Distressed and Bank Loan Sales, is responsible for leading
sales to institutional firms. Mr. Lhota joined Knight Libertas in
June 2009 from RBS Greenwich Capital Markets where he led the High
Yield team. Prior to that, Al worked at UBS in High Yield sales in
the U.S. and U.K. where he led the High Yield team in London and
worked to integrate the bond and loan teams. Following an earlier
period at UBS in high yield sales, he and a group of partners
formed Libra Investments, which was eventually sold to US Bancorp.
He began his career at Scotiabank in sales of Investment Grade and
High Yield bonds. Al attended Worcester Polytechnic University
where he studied mechanical and civil engineering. About Knight
Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NITE) is a leading financial
services firm that provides electronic and voice access to the
global capital markets across multiple asset classes for buy-side,
sell-side and corporate clients. In Global Markets, we provide
market access and trade execution services in nearly every U.S.
equity security and a large number of global equities and fixed
income, foreign exchange, futures and options. Our approach to
trading combines deep liquidity with robust trading technology and
capital facilitation, when necessary, to deliver high quality trade
executions consistent with client defined measures. Our Corporate
segment invests in strategic, financial services-oriented
opportunities, allocates, deploys and monitors all capital and
maintains all corporate overhead expenses. Our Asset Management
segment is reported as a discontinued operation as of March 31,
2009. More information about Knight can be found at
http://www.knight.com/. Certain statements contained herein may
constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
forward-looking statements are not historical facts and are based
on current expectations, estimates and projections about the
Company's industry, management's beliefs and certain assumptions
made by management, many of which, by their nature, are inherently
uncertain and beyond our control. Accordingly, readers are
cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not
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including, without limitation, risks associated with (i) the costs,
integration, performance and operation of businesses recently
acquired, or that may be acquired in the future, by the Company,
and (ii) the closing of the sale of substantially all of the assets
of the Asset Management business and costs and expenses associated
with the Company's exit from the Asset Management business. Since
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"Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
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DATASOURCE: Knight Libertas LLC CONTACT: Margaret Wyrwas, Senior
Managing Director, Communications, Marketing & Investor
Relations, +1-201-557-6954, , Kara Fitzsimmons, Director, Media
Relations, +1-201-356-1523, , Jonathan Mairs, Vice President,
Corporate Communications, +1-201-356-1529, , all of Knight Capital
Group, Inc. Web Site: http://www.knight.com/
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