Wells Fargo Names Citi Veteran Clayton Hale Co-Head of ECM (1)

Wells Fargo & Co. has hired Clayton Hale as co-head of equity capital markets from Citigroup Inc.

Hale will join Wells Fargo after a period of leave and will be based in New York reporting to Tim O’Hara, head of banking. He’ll work alongside fellow co-head of ECM Jill Ford, who joined the firm this month from Credit Suisse.

A representative for Wells Fargo confirmed the hire but declined to comment further. A representative for Citigroup declined to comment.

Hale has spent 28 years at Citigroup and was most recently global head of consumer and retail capital markets and ...