Martin Bradley, a managing director in JP Morgan’s financial sponsors group, has left the bank amid industry talk of a “bloodbath” across that sector by the end of the year.

According to two people familiar with the situation, Bradley began gardening leave over the summer. He joined the firm in April 2007 from Dresdner Kleinwort where he was a managing director in the bank's European acquisition and infrastructure finance group. JP Morgan declined to comment.