NEW YORK, July 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Houston-based Natural Resources Oil & Gas Group of ING Capital LLC, a corporate finance advisory and specialized lending services firm that is part of ING Group (NYSE: ING), has appointed Scott Lamoreaux as Director. He will be responsible for helping with the continued build-out of ING's portfolio in the domestic upstream energy sector, reporting locally to Charles Hall, Managing Director and regionally to Richard Ennis, Managing Director in New York.

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Lamoreaux is an energy finance veteran with over 30 years in the energy industry, including operational as well as structured and project finance experience. He joins ING from the Project & Structured Finance Group of Siemens Financial Services, Inc., where he led the firm's upstream and midstream finance business in Houston.

"Scott's deep knowledge of the energy industry and extensive transactional experience will be invaluable to our team as we continue our strong efforts to expand ING's franchise in the upstream energy industry," said Charles Hall.

Lamoreaux holds a BS in Journalism from Kansas State University, a MS in Geology from Wichita State University in Kansas, and an MBA in Finance from the University of Houston in Texas.

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About ING Capital LLC
ING Capital LLC is a financial services firm offering a full array of wholesale financial lending products and advisory services to its corporate and institutional clients. ING Capital is an indirect U.S. subsidiary of ING Bank NV, part of ING Group (NYSE: ING), a global financial institution of Dutch origin. The purpose of ING Bank is empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and in business.

ING Bank's more than 63,000 employees offer retail and commercial financial products and services to customers in over 40 countries.

Sustainability forms an integral part of ING's corporate strategy, which is evidenced by ING shares being included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (Europe and World) and the FTS4Good index.

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