Eugene J. Duffy has joined Mesirow Financial in the company’s Atlanta office, Mesirow announced Tuesday.

He will be a managing director in the institutional sales and marketing group. Duffy will help maintain some of the firm's existing institutional relationships and will be responsible for developing new institutional business, primarily in the public and corporate sectors.

Prior to joining Mesirow, Duffy was a partner with a quantitative domestic equity firm and a national multidiscipline real estate corporation. Mesirow specializes in investment, risk management and advisory services for institutional, corporate and individual clients.