Bank of America Corporation appointed Andy Cairns as managing director and head of investment grade debt capital markets for EMEA and Asia, to be based in London. Cairns, who assumes a newly created role to build the bank’s international high grade origination business, will work closely with Brian Robertson, the EMEA head of investment grade syndicate. He will report to Alastair Borthwick, global head of investment grade debt capital markets.
The bank also appointed Mariam Toulan as managing director and product head of EMEA leveraged loan syndicate, London group in October. Toulan will fill a newly created position to work closely with the leveraged finance structuring team and with sales and distribution. She will also be involved in the underwriting of corporate cross-over acquisition financings and will report to Joel Feldmann, head of leveraged finance and financial sponsor coverage, EMEA. Cairns joined from HSBC where he spent seven years, most recently in New York as managing director and co-head of debt capital markets.
