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  • Société Générale’s veteran head of equity-linked origination, Jose Antonio Gagliardi, will relocate to New York to take up an acquisition finance job at the end of the month. He is being replaced in Paris by a banker from the firm’s Hong Kong office.
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    Nomura this week took action to reinvigorate its equities business, which saw a disappointing performance in 2010. This followed a blistering 2009 in which it had restored the former Lehman franchise well ahead of schedule.
  • Another year, another reshuffle. The retirement of a UBS veteran has prompted the bank to have another stab at putting in place a new management team for its investment banking division. As David Rothnie writes, the aim is restore the bank’s former glory in what is a crucial business for the firm.
  • Barclays Capital last week rolled together its EMEA strategic equity derivatives and convertible origination teams into a single equity-linked team. It also shuffled one senior US banker to Europe to head its CB effort here, and one senior London-based originator to Hong Kong to head the product in Asia Pacific.
  • Matthew Koder, global head of global capital markets at UBS, resigned on Wednesday to join Bank of America Merrill Lynch as head of global corporate and investment banking for Asia Pacific. He is expected to start in late June.
  • UniCredit has promoted Christian Steffens, head of ECM, and Marco Bales, who runs FIG and public sector capital markets, to be global co-heads of capital markets. They report to Mike Hammond and TJ Lim, global co-heads of the bank’s markets division, which sits within corporate and investment banking.