Barclays Nets Former CS Investment Banker in Hong Kong
A 29-year veteran and former Credit Suisse investment banker has joined Barclays’ Hong Kong office.
Barclays has appointed Neel Laungani as head of financial sponsors, Asia Pacific, according to a statement. Based in Hong Kong, he will report regionally to Avinash Thakur, head of investment banking, APAC, and functionally to Christian Oberle, global head of financial sponsors.
Laungani has 29 years of investment banking experience with a focus on financial sponsors and the technology, media and telecom (TMT) sectors. He was most recently working at Credit Suisse as managing director and head of financial sponsors coverage for APAC as well as vice-chairman of TMT coverage in the region. Prior to that, he worked at Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers.
«As a top five global financial sponsors franchise, we have the global reach and sector depth across the world’s largest financial centers, which is a key differentiator to our clients,« commented Thakur. «Neel will be instrumental in growing our Advisory and ECM activities with sponsor clients – one of our key priorities – by drawing on the full strength of Barclays.»
