Chicago-based Mesirow is continuing to add new professionals to its capital markets and public finance operations to grow its footprint in the municipal industry.Mesirow has hired Elizabeth Funk, a veteran municipal underwriter who specializes in high-yield bonds, as managing director in the institutional sales and trading municipal underwriting group. She is the seventh new hire for the municipal division in the last 12 months to join the independent, employee-owned financial services firm. Funk began her new role on this month and she adds extensive experience in both competitive and negotiated municipal underwriting.
