Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) expanded its healthcare finance platform with the hiring of Tony Sendik as director and senior originator.

Sendik will be responsible for helping to lead business development efforts within the group, with a primary focus on healthcare services and sponsors active in healthcare investing. Based in Chicago, Sendik will report to Nicholas Hoffmann, the newly named head of mid-corporate healthcare at MUFG.

“We are happy to have Tony join our team as we continue to focus our efforts on serving our midcap and sponsor clients,” Allen Fisher, global head of healthcare finance at MUFG. “Tony’s extensive expertise in underwriting and his client-centric approach will complement our team well as we look to continue expanding our presence in the healthcare space.”

Sendik joined MUFG with nearly 15 years of experience in underwriting and portfolio management for healthcare transactions and clients. Most recently, he was senior vice president and team lead of healthcare leveraged finance at Capital One. Prior to that, Sendik held various positions on GE Capital’s FP&A, business development and healthcare financial services teams.

Sendik’s hire supports MUFG’s ongoing strategy within the middle corporate space. Six months ago, MUFG launched a direct lending group set up to focus on providing loans to the bank’s private equity sponsor clients to support their portfolio company LBO and recapitalization transactions.