Leerink Taps Rothschild’s Hotchandani for Health-Care Dealmaking

Leerink Partners hired Rothschild & Co. managing director Timothy Hotchandani to focus on health-care dealmaking involving life-science tools and diagnostics companies, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Hotchandani will come aboard as a senior managing director and will be based in Los Angeles, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the hiring wasn’t yet public. He’ll report to Barry Blake, Leerink’s global co-head of health-care investment banking, one of the people said. Blake is also global co-head of overall investment banking at Leerink, according to the firm’s website.

Hotchandani had worked at Rothschild ...