Published: July 21, 2010
Industry veteran Amy Smith joins investment banking group.
Financial services firm Jeffries has grown its clean technology (cleantech) business with the appointment of 15-year industry veteran Amy Smith as a managing director and co-head of global cleantech investment banking.
Jefferies has worked in the cleantech sector since 2004 and established its investment banking group for the sector in 2006. The team comprises 20 bankers in New York, San Francisco, London and Frankfurt.
Smith will work in the firm’s San Francisco office in partnership with fellow co-head Bruce Huber, based in London, and Jeff Lipton, US head of cleantech, based in New York.
Smith joins Jefferies from Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers, where she spent 13 years and was most recently managing director and global co-head of alternative energy investment banking.