Citadel’s Surveyor Nabs Point72-Bound Rakesh Kumar for ECM

Ken Griffin’s Citadel hired Blackstone Inc. alum Rakesh Kumar as head of equity capital markets at its Surveyor Capital unit.

Kumar, a portfolio manager, will report to Phillip Lee, who runs Surveyor. His hire follows the September departure of Andrew Liebeskind, who as one of the industry’s more prominent block traders, was among more than a dozen executives whose communications were scrutinized as part of sweeping US probe into how Wall Street firms handle such trades.