Oxford Finance LLC, a specialty finance firm that provides debt financing to life sciences and healthcare services companies, announced that  Peter Dahms has joined its healthcare services group. As senior director of capital markets, Dahms will assist the healthcare services teams' origination activities and lead the syndication of multi-lender leveraged finance and real estate transactions.

Dahms was most recently a principal within syndications at American Capital where he joined as an associate in 2005. He previously held similar roles with ABN AMRO, Scotia Capital and J.P. Morgan Chase.

Dahms' hiring is the latest step to expand Oxford's healthcare services leveraged finance business. Since the group's formation in 2009, Oxford's healthcare services team has developed industry-leading real estate, asset-based and cash flow financing solutions for healthcare companies operating in a variety of sectors.

"Over the past seven years, our healthcare services group has deployed approximately $1 billion in financings," said J. Alden Philbrick, president and chief executive officer of Oxford Finance. "Welcoming Mr. Dahms to our team demonstrates our commitment to grow an important part of Oxford's business."