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Mike Towey joined Pali Capital as its Co-head of U.S. Equities with Kevin Fisher. Towey, was previously the Head of U.S. Equity Trading at CIBC World Markets.

And Samir Dhrolia, a Toronto-native who has been running Merrill Lynch's Canadian Derivatives book from New York, has moved to Goldman Sachs to build out their Canadian Derivatives franchise also from New York.

TD Asset Management USA has hired John Reynolds as Director of Institutional Business Development from BNY Mellon Asset Management.

Canaccord Adams named Jamie Brown President of Canaccord Adams Inc. (the U.S. operations), in addition to his duties as Head of Investment Banking. Kevin Dunn will now assume the title of Vice-Chairman of U.S. operations.

Dominique Lagace has joined the Corporate Finance team at Yellow Pages Group, he was previously an Investment Banking Analyst at National Bank Financial.

Josh Clelland a Research Associate at Haywood Securities has left to join the Corporate Development team at Kinross.

Joe Ng joined the Financial Services Research team at Dundee Securities as an Associate. Ng was previously with Ernst & Young's Financial Services Advisory Practice.

Former MPartners Investment Banker Chuck Allen has joined Green Breeze Inc. as President and CEO.

Brad McMillen has joined Salman Partners as Vice-President, Corporate Finance in Toronto. McMillen had been at UBS Securities Canada since 2002.

Also in Vancouver, Niall Henry is heading over to the trading desk at CIBC World Markets from his current position at B.C. Investment Management Corporation in Victoria.

Leede Capital Markets hired Arash Yazdani in Vancouver as an Equity Analyst covering Technology and Clean Technology. Yazdani was previously with Raymond James.

GMP Capital Trust brought on Senior and Junior Technical Analysts Joe Farrell and Tina Norman, respectively, from Genuity Capital Markets.

Jean-Francois Desjardins has joined Genuity Capital Markets as a Vice President, Investment Banking. Ironically, Desjardins was at Desjardins.

Wellington West Capital Markets has hired Senior Trader Mike Lerner from CIBC World Markets.