Mizuho Americas names Gaut as managing director in capital markets

By Susanna Moon

Chicago, Jan. 12 – Mizuho Americas has hired Mariano Gaut as a managing director to help bolster the firm's equity and convertible offerings in the health care and real estate sectors.

Gaut was most recently at Citigroup and has 20 years of experience originating, structuring and executing equity, convertible and derivative financing transactions and advising on strategic and structured equity and share repurchases, according to a company announcement.

As a lead banker, Gaut raised more than $30 billion of equity and convertible capital in the health care sector and more than $60 billion in equity-linked financings, the release noted.

Mizuho also appointed J.T. Deignan as a managing director, in charge of the firm's growing real estate ECM business, the release added.

“The addition of these talented and highly experienced senior capital markets professionals greatly enhances our industry coverage and product capabilities and builds on the strong momentum our equity and convertible capital raising business has enjoyed over the last two years, with Mizuho lead managing over $37 billion of transactions, resulting in a rapid advancement in the U.S. equity and equity-linked underwriting league tables,” Derek Dillon, managing director and head of U.S. equity capital markets for Mizuho, said in the press release.

Mizuho Americas is a New York financial services company and a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.

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