Bank of America Merrill Lynch has hired Stephen Gore to head mergers and acquisitions in Asia-Pacific ex-Japan. He will be based in Hong Kong and is likely to take up his position during the final quarter of the year, according to an unofficial source.
Gore has been lured from UBS, where he was also regional MA chief. He has worked for the Swiss bank since joining the financial industry in 1993 and has been in Asia since 2005.
He has held the top MA job at UBS for the past three years after succeeding Matt Hanning in 2009, and was previously in charge of...