Spotlight: J.P. Morgan Adds to West Coast Staff

J.P. Morgan & Co. said it added seven people to its offices in California, including its first municipal finance employees in Los Angeles, to improve its West Coast public finance coverage. Garth Salisbury, a vice president who transferred from the company’s New York office to San Francisco last month, will lead the public finance team for the Western U.S. J.P. Morgan said it hired Brian Corley from Prudential Securities to lead the public finance team’s business in Southern California, working out of Los Angeles.