Canaccord Capital Inc. is beefing up its European shop’s presence in the resource and life sciences sectors.

The firm has appointed Nick Clayton as global co-head of energy. He will lead the firm’s European team and co-head the energy group with Richard Grafton who manages the North American portion of the business.

Clayton joins Canaccord from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, where he held the position of global head of natural resources, corporate finance and advisory, and was formerly global head of oil and gas equity research. Before Dresdner, Clayton had a variety of senior research roles at Nomura, Smith New Court and SG Warburg Securities, having started his career at BP plc.

Roger Murphy, an equity salesman from Deutsche Bank, will also join Canaccord’s London office to lead the metals & mining specialist sales team in Europe. Murphy has headed the South African equity sales desk within Deutsche, and has previously been a mining analyst at SG Warburg and the World Gold Council. He will also be joined on the desk by Thomas Credland, previously a mining analyst at Brook Hunt & Associates.

Canaccord is also pleased to announce that Dr. Sorca Conroy will join the London office as the dedicated life sciences salesperson for Europe. Dr. Conroy joins from HB-Corporate, London.

“Canaccord Capital is significantly strengthening its global natural resources sector and life sciences sector presence with these senior appointments,” said Paul Reynolds, head of global capital markets. “Nick Clayton has advised on some of the largest transactions in the energy industry, whilst Roger Murphy is widely recognized as one of the top-rated equity sales people in the metals and mining sector.”

“We are excited that Sorca Conroy has decided to join us and I think she brings a unique set of strengths and skills to her sector,” he added. “Further to the strengthening of our life sciences and metals & mining equity sales teams with today’s additional appointments, we look forward to announcing shortly the hiring of a further two senior analysts to cover the energy sector in London.”