Bloomberg Jefferies Group is making more changes to the investment-banking division that manages relationships with private equity firms, according to people familiar with the matter, following the departure of the group’s global head, Adam Sokoloff, in March. Christopher Ooten, a managing director at Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch unit, will join Jefferies’s financial sponsor group to replace Theodore ...

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