RBC Capital Markets has a dedicated head of its oil and gas team in London for the first time in nearly a year and a half, after hiring a founding member of the European energy advisory business at boutique Lexicon Partners, which is now part of Evercore.

Martin Copeland, a former banker at Deutsche Bank and UBS whose last role was as a managing director at Evercore since the firm's 2011 acquisition of Lexicon Partners, has joined RBC as its head of oil and gas in London, according to a memo sent to staff by Josh Critchley, the Canadian bank's head of European investment banking.