Vishal Sodha has been appointed to become managing director in charge of credits and illiquid sales at Nomura Holdings. He will assume the new role at Nomura in June.
Sodha, who last served as Asian credit sales head at the Swiss bank, will now be responsible for loans, bonds and distressed debt sales in the Asia-Pacific at the Japanese firm. He will report to Asian fixed-income sales heads Samir Bhandari and George Sun.
Nomura Holdings announced that it had appointed Hyeonmuk Mun to head a foreign-exchange trading group, based in Dubai.
Mun brings 15 years of MENA trading experience, having served at Royal Bank of Scotland, Citibank and Calyon.
Nomura Holdings announced the appointment of several senior positions in its Asia-Pacific equities franchise.
Jean El Khoury, currently head of equity derivatives trading for Asia-Pacific, has been named head of equity trading for Asia ex-Japan.
Christopher Carter is expected to join as head of equity derivatives in Japan.
Shinichiro Eguchi was appointed as head of execution services trading in Japan while Nick Heather takes on the same role for Asia, ex-Japan.
Jenny Chiam was named head of equities for South East Asia. -RTTNews
Nomura Holdings has appointed Michael Kurtz as chief Asia equity strategist, based in Hong Kong.
Kurtz joins as a managing director and will work closely with the firm’s economists, country strategists and sector heads to publish regional Asia equity strategy as well as Nomura’s Conviction List reports. With over 15 years experience in the industry, and 10 of those years working on equity strategy in Asia, he is well placed to provide clients with key strategy ideas and direction for their investment portfolios.
Kurtz was previously with Macquarie Securities as their Asian regional equity strategist. -Datamonitor NewsWire
Nomura Holdings announced the appointment of five managing directors across industry and product groups.
Stephen Cunningham joins Nomura as head of Latin America investment banking, reporting to James DeNaut. Cunningham was most recently head of corporate finance and M&A for Latin America at Deutsche Bank and has more than 20 years of M&A and capital raising experience in Latin America.
Carl Mayer joins as head of leveraged finance in the Americas, reporting to DeNaut. Mayer holds in excess of 20 years experience and his latest role was as head of leveraged finance at Citadel.
Thomas Fiato joins as COO for corporate finance and will report to DeNaut. Fiato previously worked at Deutsche Bank for six years and held a similar role there. Before joining Deutsche Bank, he was at Goldman Sachs for 15 years also in an industry coverage management role.
Nicholas Forsa joins Nomura’s consumer retail /M&A group to focus on covering and advising clients in the retail sectors. He will report to Greg Fatzinger, head of the consumer banking group. Prior to joining Nomura, Forsa was most recently a senior banker in Deutsche Bank’s M&A and corporate advisory group.
Douglas MacKenzie has joined the Americas senior management team as COO for the global finance JV in the Americas, reporting to Philippe Dufournier and DeNaut. Mackenzie has more than 20 years of industry experience and previously worked at Goldman Sachs, Wasserstein Perella and Morgan Stanley where he was most recently head of the global energy group.
In addition, Jamie Brodsky and Shirley Elliott have joined Nomura as new executive directors.
Brodsky is a key appointment to the high yield and leveraged finance team, reporting to Mayer. He joins from UBS, where he worked for 11 years, most recently as an executive director in the leveraged finance group.
Elliott joins Nomura natural resources group in Houston Texas, reporting to Jason Martinez. Prior to Nomura, she worked at Deutsche Bank for four years and was most recently a director in debt capital markets. -PR Newswire
Nomura Holdings has named Steve Kilcullen as the head of flow derivative sales, leading the firm’s equity options business as a producer and manager.
In his new role, Kilcullen will focus on developing the desk’s trading with convertible arbitrage and special situation clients, and enhance Nomura’s delivery of cross-asset trading solutions for customers.
Kilcullen joins from UBS Securities, where he was most recently head of hedge fund flow derivative sales. Previously, he was a buy side trader at Wachovia and a trader of convertibles and equity options at SBC O’Connor. -Global Banking News
Nomura Holdings announced the appointment of Prabhat Awasthi as head of its equities operations in India. He will replace Pankaj Vaish.
Awasthi will report to co-heads of Asia Pacific equities, John Adair and Paul Dolan.
Awasthi, who joined the Japanese brokerage from Lehman Brothers nearly three years ago, was previously in charge of equity research at Nomura, a role he had served since October 2008.
Nomura announced that Lori Arndt has joined as managing director and head of US client strategy and corporate access. Prior to joining Nomura, Lori Arndt worked at Goldman Sachs for 14 years, spending seven years in the investment banking division and seven years in the equity division, most recently as head of corporate access in the US. -PR Newswire
Nomura Holdings appointed Michael Lim Choo San non-executive director, the first Singaporean and non-Japanese Asian to be appointed. Lim is also currently the non-executive chairman of Nomura Singapore. The company said it would also retain its division CEO structure with Hitoshi Tada as retail CEO, Jasjit Bhattal as wholesale division CEO, and Toshihiro Iwasaki as asset management CEO. -Malaysia Economic News
Nomura Holdings announced that it has named Pierpaolo Di Stefano as managing director, head of investment banking for Italian corporates.
In his new role based in Milan, Di Stefano will focus on Italian clients, and will report directly to Andrea Pellegrini, co-chairman and head of investment banking for Nomura Italy.
Di Stefano, who has over 15 years of experience, was previously with UBS AG where he has spent six years in London and Italy, lastly as co-head of Italian investment banking. Formerly, he has spent eight years at Merrill Lynch, now part of Bank of America, and also at Lazard in 1994. -Global Banking News
Nomura Holdings announced that David Miller joins as managing director and head of West Coast research sales.
Miller has over 15 years of sell-side experience, most recently at JP Morgan where he was the manager of the San Francisco office. Prior to that, he spent nine years at Banc of America Securities.
Ryan Thornton joins as executive director and senior research sales person in Boston.
Thornton brings more than 12 years of sell-side experience to Nomura. He joins from Deutsche Bank where he helped to establish a US presence for Deutsche Bank in Boston. Prior to Deutsche Bank, he worked at Lehman Brothers and RBC Capital Markets.
Gina Markevitch joins as executive director and senior research sales person.
Markevitch joins from UBS and brings over 13 years of industry experience in institutional account management.
Mark Walsh joins as executive director and senior research sales person based in Chicago.
Walsh brings over 14 years of sell-side experience to Nomura, and joins from Thomas Weisel Partners where he spearheaded account relationship management throughout the Midwest region.
Chris Virelli joins as executive director and senior research sales person.
Virelli joins from Soleil Securities, and brings nearly 11 years of sell-side experience in institutional sales and client relationship management. Prior to Soleil Securities, he spent three years at Deutsche Bank. -ENP Newswire
Nomura Holdings announces that Ellen Zentner has joined the firm as executive director and senior economist for the US.
Zentner will be responsible for providing in-depth analysis and research on macro-economic trends affecting the US economy, while also proactively identifying and communicating anomalies in market data which signal important economic shifts. -ENP Newswire
Nomura Holdings appointed Mark Leahy as head of debt origination and fixed income syndicate for Asia ex-Japan to spearhead the development of the bank’s debt franchise in the region. In this newly-combined role, Mark will report jointly in the region to Jai Rajpal, head of fixed income for Asia ex-Japan and Patrick Schmitz-Morkramer, head of investment banking for Asia ex-Japan, and globally to Philippe Dufournier, global head of global finance.
Mark’s previous roles include five years at Deutsche Bank in Singapore where he built a market-leading primary debt syndication business to enhance the bank’s global markets platform. Managing all debt products with direct coverage of key government and corporate clients across the region, Mark played a critical role in the firm’s regional capital markets businesses. Most recently, Mark co-founded and was managing director of Arrive Private Investments. -ENP Newswire
Nomura Holdings announced that its has appointed Jim DeNaut as head of investment banking. He replaces Glenn Schiffman.
DeNaut joined the company in August 2010 from Deutsche Bank. -Global Banking News
Nomura Holdings announced that Richard Sherlund joined as managing director and head of its US technology equity research team.
Sherlund spent 24 years at Goldman Sachs. Most recently, he was the CEO and portfolio manager of Ketchem Creek Capital. -Business Wire
Nomura Holdings announced that Tarun Jotwani has been promoted to executive vice president and head of global markets.
Jotwani will lead both fixed income and equities under a fully integrated capital markets platform, setting strategy, prioritizing resources and driving sustainable and profitable growth for all global markets businesses across all regions. As he assumes these expanded responsibilities, he will also transition out of his current role as chief executive officer, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Benoit Savoret will join Nomura as joint head of global equities, effective immediately. He will report to Jotwani.
Savoret has more than two decades of industry experience and spent 11 years at Lehman Brothers, where he served as chief operating officer in EMEA, head of European equities.
John Phizackerley, currently joint chief administrative officer (CAO) of the wholesale division, will become chief executive officer, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He succeeds Jotwani.
Phizackerley has spent more than 20 years in the investment banking industry and will continue to deliver experienced management as well as front-line business expertise to the region. His appointment is subject to regulatory approval. -Company Website
Nomura Holdings announced that Piero Novelli will join the firm as a managing director and global co-head of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), partnering with Kentaro Okuda, global co-head of M&A who is based in Japan.
Novelli will become a member of the investment banking executive committee and will report to William Vereker and Hiroyuki Suzuki, joint heads of investment banking, who are based in London and Tokyo, respectively.
Novelli has over two decades of M&A experience. His last role was at UBS where he was a managing director and global head of M&A. -Company Website
Nomura Holdings announced the appointment of Jean El Khoury as head of equity derivatives trading, Asia-Pacific.
Based in Hong Kong, El Khoury will be responsible for flow, structured and warrant derivatives trading across the region. He will report to Arnaud Bastit, head of equity trading for Asia-Pacific.
El Khoury joins Nomura from Deutsche Bank in New York where he most recently served as the co-head of equity derivatives trading for North America. He has more than fifteen years of experience in equity derivatives trading, and has previously worked as head of index derivatives flow trading at Morgan Stanley in New York and for JP Morgan in London. -Company Website
Nomura Holdings has named Nikhil Nath as head of mergers and acquisitions across Asia excluding Japan and Australia.
Nath has moved to Hong Kong from Mumbai, where he was a managing director and senior client-coverage officer in investment banking for Nomura focused on the general industrial sector and financial sponsors. He was also responsible for covering Nomura’s industrial sector clients in South East Asia. Earlier, he was the head of mergers and acquisitions for Lehman Brothers Holdings in India, which was acquired by Nomura in 2008. -Global Banking News
Nomura Holdings has announced four new senior appointments to its Middle East and Africa (MEA) fixed income team.
Ramin Shayesteh, who joins as managing director, will head Nomura’s Middle East and Africa sales for financial institutions and sovereign wealth funds. He will be based in London.
Shayesteh was previously at Barclays Capital where he was head of Middle East and Africa sales and spent the last 12 years establishing significant client relationships and product offerings.
Kevin Cummings, who joins as executive director, will spearhead the structured solutions group for the region.
Cummings will manage the structured solutions distribution business, and co-ordination of the sovereign wealth fund distribution business into the Middle East and Africa. He will be based in Dubai.
Shayesteh and Cummings will be supported by Bashar Al Damiri and Amin Kirdar, who will both be based in Dubai.
Nomura announced the appointment of James Kern as head of global finance FIG and specialty finance investment banking for the Americas.
Kern’s significant experience representing a broad range of financial institutions will help further grow Nomura’s global franchise.
Kern joins Nomura from JP Morgan where he served as a senior member of the FIG practice focused on asset management and specialty finance clients. Prior to JP Morgan, he spent 14 years at Bear Stearns where he held several positions including head of strategic finance-FIG, head of corporate derivatives and was a founding member of the firm’s structured equity products group.
As part of the continued expansion of Nomura’s investment banking team, the firm also announced Nimish Mathur has joined as an executive director on the FIG team within global finance for the Americas.
Mathur previously worked in the FIG area with Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers. -Business Wire
Nomura Holdings announced the appointment of Khaled AlKhattaf as chief executive officer for Saudi Arabia.
AlKhattaf will be responsible for developing Nomura’s business in the Kingdom, including investment banking, capital markets and wealth management.
AlKhattaf joins Nomura from the Tadawul, the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange, where he served as the chief financial officer. Before joining the Tadawul, he worked at SAMA as assistant director, investment management department, where he ran investment portfolios. Prior to joining SAMA, he worked at the World Bank where he held various treasury and investment roles. -AME Info – ME Company Newswire
Nomura Holdings announced the appointment of Rig Karkhanis as head of fixed income, Singapore.
In this newly-created role, Karkhanis will be responsible for further enhancing Nomura’s fixed income business in Singapore, which provides the firm’s clients in Asia ex-Japan with solutions across foreign exchange, interest rates, credit and commodities.
Karkhanis joins Nomura from Millennium Partners, Singapore where he was a portfolio manager, prior to which he was head of rates and currencies sales & trading, Asia Pacific Rim at Merrill Lynch. Before that he spent 10 years at Deutsche Bank in Europe and Asia in various FX options trading roles. -Company Website
Nomura Holdings appointed Shubham Majumder as executive director, head of TMT for India.
Majumder was Asia Pacific head of telecom research with Macquarie Capital Securities based in India. He will report to Nipun Goel, head of investment banking for India locally, and to Sandeep Singh, managing director and head of telecoms, media and technology for Asia ex-Japan, regionally. -Investment Dealers Digest
Nomura has announced that it has expanded its banking research team and has added Exane BNP Paribas analyst Domenico Santoro to its equity research team as an executive director.
Santoro will cover Italian banks in London. He is to start attending to his duties in October.
Santoro had joined Exane BNP Paribas in 2005, where he covered Italian banks.
Nomura has announced the appointment of Robert Goodman as managing director and vice chairman of the global financial institutions group, where he will be responsible for coverage of insurance clients.
Goodman brings with him over 25 years of industry experience, having previously held the roles of co-head of insurance asset management at Deutsche Bank and global head of insurance at Lazard. -ENP Newswire
Nomura announced that Grant Chamberlain has joined as managing director head of mergers and acquisitions in Australia. He will be a based in Sydney.
Chamberlain was former a banker with Deutsche Bank.
The company also announced that James Land has joined as head of fixed income for Australia.
Nomura announced that Indraneil Borkakoty has joined the firm from India’s Kotak Mahindra Capital.
Borkakoty will head Nomura’s equity capital market business in India. He replaces P.V. Krishna.
Borkakoty was the head of equity capital markets unit at Kotak Mahindra Capital, a unit of India’s private sector lender Kotak Mahindra Bank. -Economic Times
Nomura has appointed former Citigroup talent Sandeep Singh in charge of its technology, media and telecommunications banking business in Asia excluding Japan. Singh will assume the role of a managing director at the Japanese firm in August. He will be based in Hong Kong. -M2 EquityBites
Nomura announced that it as named Tarun Jotwani as chief executive for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He will also continue in his current role as head of global fixed income. He will report to Jesse Bhattal, another former Lehman executive, who was last month named head of a new wholesale division.
Jotwani joined from Lehman. There for 13 years, his previous positions include head of capital markets for Asia-Pacific and CEO of its Indian operations from 2007. Before he was co-head of fixed income in Europe.
Nomura has also named William Vereker and Hiroyuki Suzuki as joint-heads of global investment banking.
Nomura has promoted ex-Lehman Brothers Holdings bankers Abdelkerim Karim and Sam Ruiz to co-heads of firm’s equities business for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Ruiz was Lehman’s head of equities trading for same region.
Karim was head of equity structured products. -Wall Street Journal Abstracts
Mark Epley joins Nomura Holdings as co-head of Nomura’s unit that advises on merger deals for buyout firms. He will be based in New York.
Epley joins from Deutsche Bank, where he led a team that caters to private equity firms. He joined Deutsche Bank in 2001.
Nomura has appointed Mark Edgar to lead its US convertible bond sales business.
Edgar comes from Jones Trading where he set up the equity firm’s convertible bond trading desk. -M2 EquityBites
Nomura has appointed Nipun Goel as head of investment banking and Nitin Jain as co-head of fixed income in India.
Neeraj Gambhir, who is currently the head of Nomura`s credit business in India, will co-head the fixed income business along with Jain.
Goel joins from Merrill Lynch India, where he spent 14 years.
Nipun has wide experience in capital markets, both on equities and debt, corporate finance, client coverage and origination across several sectors.
Nomura has also appointed Jai Rajpal as the new head of fixed income for Asia ex-Japan. He will be relocating to Hong Kong from Singapore.
Rajpal joined Lehman Brothers in 2007 after spending 14 years at Deutsche Bank, where he was the global head of emerging markets foreign exchange trading. He joined Nomura in 2008 as joint head of fixed income for Asia ex-Japan. -Datamonitor NewsWire
Nomura announced the appointment of Kirk Yang as head of regional technology hardware research and as a managing director.
Yang will be responsible for coordinating and developing downstream technology research in the region. He will be based in Hong Kong.
Yang was previously with a leading private China IT software company and Ta Yang Group, serving as chief financial officer at both firms. Prior to that, he held positions as head of Asia technology research at Citi, head of Asia hardware and components research at Credit Suisse and technology research analyst at Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas.
Nomura Holdings has hired Ronan Clarke as the new head of high yield credit research for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He will be based in London.
Mr. Clarke has 10 years of experience in high yield research having held similar management roles at UBS and most recently at Royal Bank of Scotland. -Datamonitor NewsWire
