U.S. Bancorp and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group extended the outside termination date of the purchase agreement for U.S. Bank’s acquisition of MUFG from Sep. 30, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2022. read more

SEP 19, 2022 - 7:50 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) expanded its restaurant finance platform to cover hotel franchises with the hiring of Tracy Vasquez and Steven Getty as directors for its restaurant and hospitality finance team. read more

SEP 13, 2022 - 7:42 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) expanded its newly formed direct lending business and hired Claude Mattessich and Will McCarthy as managing directors and senior originators. read more

SEP 8, 2022 - 7:43 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) launched a direct lending group that will focus on providing loans to the bank's private equity sponsor clients to support their portfolio company LBO and recapitalization transactions. Matt Maley will lead the team. read more

AUG 12, 2022 - 7:23 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group closed of a limited recourse acquisition facility for SKY Leasing, in which the bank acted as co-structuring agent and joint lead arranger.  read more

JUN 30, 2022 - 7:22 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) hired Garret Rowan as head of its leveraged loan trading group and Mike Macchia as a salesperson in leveraged finance sales. Both will be based in New York. read more

JUN 28, 2022 - 7:38 am

Benoist de Vimal joined Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group as director and head of origination for aviation in the Americas. de Vimal has more than 15 years of investment banking experience with specialized expertise in originating aircraft structured finance, risk management and debt restructuring. read more

APR 7, 2022 - 6:25 am

Yezdan Badrakhan will join Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) as managing director and head of U.S. esoteric asset-backed securities. Badrakhan previously launched Morgan Stanley’s structured products capital markets transportation business. read more

MAR 17, 2022 - 6:05 am

According to the annual outlook from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s capital markets team, corporates have embarked on a "feverish pace" of capital-expenditure investment and strategic activity in response to a rapidly evolving landscape. read more

JAN 25, 2022 - 6:32 am

The U.S. economy is moving from a post-reopening boom phase toward a moderating period, which, depending on policy prescription, may end up feeling like a mid-cycle slowdown in the second half of 2022, according to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. read more

JAN 19, 2022 - 6:18 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group named Raymond Fattell head of transaction banking in the Americas. Fattell will assume the role on Dec. 1 from Ranjana Clark, who had served in the position since 2013 but now will be the fully dedicated head of global transaction banking. read more

NOV 30, 2021 - 6:26 am

With rising commodity prices, workforce shortages and higher expenditures to attract labor, the restaurant industry will face continued margin contraction and, consequently, lower M&A volume in Q1/22, according to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s restaurant finance group. read more

NOV 11, 2021 - 6:32 am

Stonebriar Commercial Finance extended its $1 billion revolving warehouse credit facility agented by Bank of America to 2025. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) joined the facility as a new participating lender. read more

JUL 29, 2021 - 5:20 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group hired Okeatta Brown as head of inclusion and diversity for the Americas. Brown, a nationally recognized leader in diversity, equity, inclusion and engagement, joined MUFG to elevate and enhance the bank's inclusion and diversity efforts in the Americas. read more

JUL 27, 2021 - 6:09 am

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group appointed Randall Chafetz to the role of vice chairman of the firm's global corporate and investment banking business. Chafetz will assume this newly created role in New York on June 29. read more

JUN 16, 2021 - 6:24 am