Deutsche Bank has continued to build up its leveraged finance operations in the US with the hire of Thomas Hopkins as a senior leveraged finance originator, in anticipation of a market recovery.

Hopkins joins the German bank's office in New York as a managing director. He will be responsible for the origination of high-yield bond and loan transactions. Hopkins joins from Goldman Sachs, where he was part of its technology investment banking team and advised clients on capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions.