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Ishida in top Nomura slot
Nomura International has appointed Yugo Ishida as president and CEO of the company. Ishida had been deputy chairman but will now replace Hiromi Yamaji, former chairman, who is returning to the bank's Tokyo headquarters.
Ishida had been managing director of European equity before becoming deputy CEO in July 2004.
FIXED INCOME
CSFB chooses Gandhi
Vikram Gandhi has been appointed by Credit Suisse First Boston to head the firm's global financial institutional group (GFIG).
Gandhi will be responsible for integrating CSFB's financial institutions capabilities into the GFIG.
He will be based in New York and report jointly to Marc Granetz and Eric Varvel, co-heads of corporate and investment banking, and to Jim Healy, the head of fixed income.
Gandhi joins from Morgan Stanley, where he had worked as co-head of GFIG since 2003. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1995.
PRIVATE EQUITY
Goldman appoints Patel
Goldman Sachs has hired Sanjay Patel as co-head of private equity investments alongside Hughes Lepic within the Principal Investment Area (PIA) Europe in London. Patel reports to Richard Sharp, head of PIA Europe.
Patel joins from GSC Partners, a $7bn alternative asset firm that has a mezzanine fund in Europe as well as a collateralised loan obligation. Before GSC, he was a managing director with Goldman Sachs in New York.
EQUITIES
Six hires for JPM
JP Morgan has made six appointments in its European cash equities business. Louis Grieg joins as a managing director in European sales. Greig previously had the same position at Goldman Sachs where he worked for 10 years.
Swantje Conrad also joins as a managing director in European sales, and will work on the capital goods, autos and aerospace sectors. Conrad was previously a member of the bank's capital goods research team.
Adam Brown joins the bank's trading team and will specialise in the energy sector. Brown joins from Goldman Sachs, where he has worked for the past two years.
Mark Buchanan joins the bank's equity execution services group, focusing on trading analytics. Buchanan joins from ITG Europe.
Kam Fung rejoins the bank's trading team to work on the consumer and retail sectors after taking a nine month sabbatical.
Amita Gulati joins...