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George Pavey in April returned to Asia from Credit Suisse First Boston in London to take up the challenge of helping global ECM head Daniel Palmer (qv) build HSBC's equity business in Asia. Pavey is now head of ECM for Asia and hopes to bring to bear his previous experience in Asia with CSFB and also his recent emerging markets expertise from several years running CSFB's eastern European ECM operations.

In November last year Morgan Stanley announced organisational changes in its Asia Pacific investment banking and global capital markets divisions, designed to strengthen the firm's platform and offer clients more products. Gokul Laroia, previously Asia Pacific mergers and acquisitions (M&A) head, was appointed head of global capital markets (GCM) for the region.

Greg Park has one of the highest profiles among the securitisation experts plying their trade in the Asian region. He is an ebullient and enthusiastic advocate of securitisation and as a Korean-American he has played to his strengths by focusing on Korea — by far the most dynamic domestic and cross-border ABS market in Asia. Park moved to Calyon in July 2004 to take up the reins as managing director and head of securitisation, ex-Japan. He was previously head of Asian securitisation at Credit Suisse First Boston where he had worked for three years.

Ghislain de Brondeau took over responsibility for equity-linked origination at SG CIB in September 2004 and became head of European equity syndication in April 2005. Despite being just 35 years old, de Brondeau appears far from daunted about stepping into the positions of former syndicate head Jean-François Tine's, who moved to the new Lazard-Ixis joint venture and former equity-linked origination head Jean-François Mazaud, who is now head of corporate origination in DCM. "The nature of the two jobs is actually complementary because they give me exposure to both clients and the market," he says.

Emerging market debt continues to attract record amounts of new money — much of it from inexperienced investors and hedge funds.

Only a year and a half after joining Morgan Stanley's equity syndicate from its Nordic equity sales team, Henrik Gobel will take over the running of the desk in July with the return to the US of syndicate head Michael Schaftel. His elevation to the top of Morgan Stanley's syndicate team comes as little surprise after the bank's stellar performance last year. In 2004, the desk won a bookrunner slot on both the French government's sale of a Eu5.1bn stake in France Télécom, and the Italian government's E7.6bn sale of a 19% stake in Enel, a deal on which the bank was also a global co-ordinator, and which generated over Eu19bn of demand.

Ian Carton returned to Asia last July after a three year stint in London with Merrill Lynch. He replaced early retiree Angus Macpherson as head of the firm's Asia capital markets and financing team. A keen athlete and irrepressible amateur triathlon competitor, Carton is well at home traversing the craggy slopes of outlying Hong Kong in pursuit of the fitness that proves so elusive to most busy bankers.

Ian Gilday joined Goldman Sachs in early May 2005 to run European loan capital markets as a managing director in its European leveraged finance team. He joined after six years at Merrill Lynch. He is responsible for all loan products including senior debt, mezzanine and second lien and will help Goldman structure deals that cater to the growing investor base for European leveraged loans.

Hope Pascucci was promoted in March to become global head of debt capital markets at Deutsche Bank. Previously European head of debt capital markets, Pascucci's global DCM role has been added to her continuing responsibilities as global head of syndicate, while she also took on the position of European head of sales. Her promotion came six months after Anshu Jain and Michael Cohrs became co-heads of Deutsche's corporate and investment bank, and follows an earlier reorganisation of the business that took place shortly after their appointments. Pascucci reports to both co-heads, having previously been under Jain's sales and trading competence, but her coverage responsibilities fall under Cohrs' control.

Jason Tilroe joined Lehman Brothers in March 2004 after being headhunted from Goldman Sachs. In February this year he was promoted to work as Lehman's co-head of European debt capital markets (DCM) alongside Eamonn Price (qv), as well as retaining his previous responsibilities as head of the risk solutions group.

It is an honour to provide the foreword for EuroWeek's Celebration of Excellence 2005. In the last year, the European capital markets have kept up a tremendous pace of growth and innovation, which would not have been possible without the dedication and quality of the teams of professionals working for the various firms.

Jean-François Mazaud became head of corporate debt capital markets at SG in September last year. He was previously the bank's head of equity-linked origination, a position he had held since 1998. Under his leadership SG's equity-linked business became one of the most successful in Europe, with over 70 deals to its credit — 50 as lead manager.