Murphy will bring over 20 years of experience and will join Jefferies from Morgan Stanley, where he spent 17 years and was most recently an executive director in fixed income sales and trading.
Previously, he worked in fixed income sales at Dillon Read & Co. and Wertheim Schroeder and traded municipal bonds at Citigroup.
Jefferies head of investment grade corporate bond sales and trading Tom Thees said Murphy’s addition is part of the ongoing enhancement of the investment grade effort and demonstrates Jefferies’ commitment to providing institutional clients with best-in-class fixed income product, strategy and trading.
Presently, Jefferies fixed income has approximately 525 professionals globally who are focused on the sales and trading of investment grade corporate bonds, high yield bonds, government and agency securities, repo finance, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, municipal bonds, whole loans, leveraged loans, distressed securities and emerging markets debt.
