NEW YORK -- (Business Wire)

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG – NYSE: MTU), one of the world’s leading financial groups, announced that Jeffrey Lipton has joined MUFG as Managing Director of Corporate Advisory in the Investment Banking and Markets Group. Lipton will be responsible for supporting the general industries coverage effort. He is based in New York and reports to Robert Smock, Managing Director and Head of Corporate Advisory at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Union Bank.

“Jeff’s experience makes him a great addition to our team. His work and experience in the Energy Technology and Industrial Growth areas is quite impressive and we are thrilled to have such a talented individual join the bank. He has worked across many different industry sectors and he will help provide the best service to our clients,” said Smock.

Lipton was most recently Managing Director at a boutique merchant bank. Before that he was at Jefferies where in 2003 he founded and ran the CleanTech effort. Before joining Jefferies, Lipton worked at Morgan Stanley and Schroder’s & Co. across multiple industry sectors, including general industrials, chemicals, and healthcare. Prior to that he was a corporate attorney and practiced securities and M&A law.

Lipton graduated magna cum laude from University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from the College of Arts & Sciences. He received an MBA and a JD from Columbia University.

About MUFG Union Bank and MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation

MUFG Union Bank, N.A., is a full-service bank with offices across the United States. We provide a wide spectrum of corporate, commercial, retail banking, and wealth management solutions to meet the needs of customers. The bank also offers an extensive portfolio of value-added solutions for customers, including investment banking, personal trust, capital markets, global treasury management, transaction banking, and other services. With assets of $106.7 billion (USD), as of March 31, 2014, the bank has strong capital reserves, credit ratings and capital ratios relative to peer banks. MUFG Union Bank is a proud member of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (NYSE: MTU), one of the world’s largest financial organizations with total assets of approximately ¥258 trillion (JPY) or $2.5 trillion (USD)¹, as of March 31, 2014. MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation, the financial holding company and MUFG Union Bank, N.A., have corporate headquarters in New York City.

¹ Exchange rate of USD = ¥102.92 (J-GAAP) as of March 31, 2014.

Contacts:

Media:
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.
Lauren Sambrotto, +1-212-782-4909
lsambrotto@us.mufg.jp

Source: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.