Credit Suisse has appointed Tucker Highfield as its new head of equity syndicate in Asia ex-Japan, or non-Japan Asia, as the Swiss firm refers to it. The appointment was announced internally last week and is effective immediately.
Highfield, who is a managing director, has been with Credit Suisse since 2004 and was most recently head of equity capital markets ECM for Southeast Asia. When he first took up that role in November 2010 he was based in Singapore, but for the past year or so he has been back in Hong Kong.
He has already been working closely with the syndicate desk on numerous deals in the...