Former Goldman Sachs banker Tom Lynch has joined Citigroup as global head of prime sales, based in New York, as part of a build up of its prime services business. Lynch joined from private investment partnership Hound Partners, where he has spent two years as chief operating officer. Before joining Hound in 2020 he spent 25 years at Goldman and held senior positions in its prime brokerage and capital introductions units. Lynch will report to Fater Belbachir, global head of equities.
Tony Woodhams has joined Alvarez & Marsal to lead its capital markets practice in EMEA. Woodhams will lead specialist teams to provide client support services to financial services and trading clients in areas including risk and regulation, financial transformation, conduct issues and investigations and digital transformation. Woodhams joined from Deloitte, where he has been head of capital markets for analytics since 2016. He previously worked at KPMG and held senior contractor roles at Credit Suisse, HSBC and Morgan Stanley.
Citigroup has appointed Fabio Lisanti as head of European markets, excluding the UK, to widen his responsibilities from his current role as head of markets for Western Europe. He will move to Paris. Lisanti joined Citi in 2016 as head of markets and securities services for Italy and expanded that role to Western Europe. He previously spent 21 years at UBS, including as global head of debt capital markets.
Houlihan Lokey has appointed Rainer Hepberger as a managing director in its European healthcare team, based in London. He joins from William Blair, where he held a similar role and spent nine years, working on deals across Europe. Hepberger will report to Paul Tomasic. The team has 20 people in the region and 75 globally in the healthcare advisory group.
Capital markets stalwart Jean Marc Mercier is joining fintech start-up Finsmart as senior board adviser, in a return to the financial services industry following a 26-year career at HSBC. Finsmart was founded in October 2020 by Sotiris Manderis and Guillaume Petitgas, both former HSBC bankers. Mercier left HSBC in July. His most recent role was vice-chairman in the capital markets business.
Independent investment bank William Blair has rehired David Hatch as a managing director on its supply chain and commercial services team. Hatch will work out of Charlotte, North Carolina, and focus on buy and sell-side M&A transactions, equity and debt capital markets, private placements, restructurings and other investment banking solutions in supply chain and commercial services. Hatch joins from Piper Sandler, where he served as managing director. He was previously with Edgeview Partners after starting his career at William Blair.
Among the raft of senior changes at Credit Suisse, the bank has appointed Nita Patel as chief compliance officer. Patel succeeds Rafael Lopez Lorenzo, who Credit Suisse said had stepped down for family reasons. Lopez Lorenzo was only appointed to the role in September 2021. Patel was chief compliance officer of the asset management division and the UK investment bank. She joined the bank last year from Goldman Sachs, where she spent 18 years in senior compliance roles across asset management and markets.
Gautier Martin-Regnier is expected to join the Qatar Investment Authority as global head of capital markets in Doha, after leaving Morgan Stanley in August. Martin-Regnier was a senior member of the equity solutions team at Morgan Stanley, which he joined from Barclays in 2013 and where he dealt with origination in strategic equity derivatives and equity-linked. Prior to Barclays, he worked at HSBC and Societe Generale.
Houlihan Lokey has hired Andy Cairns as head of Middle East and Africa capital markets. He is based in Dubai and has responsibility for building activity in the region for regional clients and by offering access to Middle Eastern capital for clients elsewhere. Cairns joins from First Abu Dhabi Bank, where he was head of global corporate finance. Before that he worked at Bank of America and HSBC. He has advised on sovereign financings for the UAE, Oman and Egypt, and IPOs for Saudi Aramco, Mubadala, and Emaar.
Seasoned CLO trader John Parker has left Deutsche Bank after more than 11 years with the firm, sources said. Parker joined Deutsche Bank in 2011 and previously worked at Christopher Street Capital, JP Morgan, Barclays and Brevan Howard.
Credit Suisse's head of Australian equity sales, David Buttenshaw, has left the bank to join a boutique financial advisory firm, Reuters reported. A source said he had joined Aitken Mount Capital Partners.
Charles Lin, formerly the top overseas banker at China’s largest investment bank Citic Securities, has been appointed chief executive of rival GF Holdings Hong Kong, Reuters reported. Lin resigned last month as deputy chairman at CLSA, the international unit of Citic.
Deutsche Bank has appointed Nisheet Gupta to head the global South Asia UK team in its international private bank. He will be based in London and cover the most prominent ultra-high-net-worth clients from the global Indian segment in the UK and oversee the team.
Buyout firm Carlyle Group named Geoff Hutchinson as head of its private equity business in Australia and New Zealand, Reuters reported. Hutchinson will lead investments across the firm's priority sectors in consumer, healthcare, technology and financial services in Australia and New Zealand.