May 27 - Jefferies has lured away four of

Guggenheim Partners' senior-most technology bankers on the West

Coast, an unusually large hiring spree as the boutique

investment bank builds up its tech practice, according to people

familiar with the matter.

Guggenheim's senior managing director Robert Bartlett and

managing directors Jalil Musayev, Nash Abu-Zahra, and Gaurav

Thakur will join Jefferies in a few months, one of the people

said, asking not to be named because the hires have not been

publicly announced. Jefferies is poaching veterans from

Guggenheim's core team investment banking team focused on tech

deals on the West Coast, the person said.

The team will report to Jefferies' global co-heads of

technology investment banking Jason Greenberg and Cameron

Lester, they said. They will continue to be based in the Bay

Area.

Representatives for Jefferies and Guggenheim Partners

declined to comment.

Bartlett and his team have worked at Guggenheim's Menlo Park

office for the past several years.

Bartlett joined Guggenheim in 2021 from Goldman Sachs as a

key addition tasked in helping the boutique investment bank

expand its cybersecurity client base. Before Guggenheim,

Bartlett spent three years as head of security and

infrastructure software investment banking at Goldman Sachs.

Thakur and Musayev both joined Guggenheim a few months after

Bartlett, in April 2021, from Bank of America, while Abu-Zahra

came onboard in September 2022 from Goldman Sachs.

Jefferies has been building out its technology investment

banking team over the past few years with several key hires from

bulge bracket banks, including the addition of Rob Eliasek, a

chairman of software investment banking from Bank of America,

and Stefani Silverstein, a managing director covering software

and internet from Goldman Sachs.