Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. Expands Its High Yield and Distressed Team

As part of its expansion into the fixed income, high yield, and leveraged finance market, New York-based global financial services firm ""Cantor Fitzgerald & Co."":http://www.cantor.com announced several new hires last week.

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Matthew Zolin, Lori Samuels, and Erin Andrews all joined the firm from Chapdelaine Credit Partners. Zolin was named managing director of high yield trading, Samuels was hired as managing director of credit product, and Andrews joined the firm as a senior loan trader.

""We are uniquely positioned to capture further market share in the credit market,"" said Shawn P. Matthews, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. ""The hires of Matthew, Lori, and Erin, in addition to the unparalleled sales and trading team that we have assembled globally, exemplifies our ability to attract individuals with unparalleled experience and relationships within the fixed income industry to help us achieve our vision and meet our goal of enhancing our client relationships that are second to none.""

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Zolin served as managing director of institutional high yield and distressed credit sales at Chapdelaine Credit Partners. Prior to that, he was director and portfolio manager for SG Asset Management.

Other positions include director of credit portfolio and manager at Saranac Capital/Citigroup Alternative Investments, VP of high yield corporate fixed income research at Lehman Brothers, and director of high yield corporate fixed income research at SG Cowen Securities Corp.

Zolin received a B.A. in political economy from Williams College as well as an M.S. in accounting and an M.B.A. in finance and accounting from New York University.

Samuels was a managing director of Chapdelaine Credit Partners focusing on investment grade, high yield, and distressed bonds and loan sales globally. Prior to that, she worked in credit sales at Miller Tabak Roberts Securities. Samuels spent the majority of her career at UBS Securities as an executive director in the fixed income division and as director at Credit Suisse First Boston.

She holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School.

Andrews is a former EVP at Chapdelaine Credit Partners, where she was responsible for building out the loan business. Andrews also specialized in distressed-loan trading at Bank of America Securities and held various analyst positions there.

Andrews graduated from New York University with a double major in economics and French literature.