Prior to joining Leerink Swann, Baranski spent 15 years at Merrill Lynch and most recently served as the managing director for the western region for the firm's private banking and investment group. He will be located in Leerink Swann’s new Los Angeles office and will report to Jeff Leerink, chairman and chief executive.

“Baranski’s addition will help to expand this part of the firm’s business, enabling us to access two key growth drivers - synergies with the investment banking team and mining the MEDACorp network of more than 35,000 medical professionals who are not currently covered by our wealth management services,” Leerink said.