George Hongchoy is settling into his first day at NM Rothschild Sons's Hong Kong office today. He has joined the firm as a director and will head the diversified industries group for Asia. This is one of four industry groups that operate in Rothschild and covers companies in the Asian property, hospitality, consumer products, retail and financial sectors.
Hongchoy was most recently a managing director at JPMorgan, a position he left in December 2002. While at JP and before that at Jardine Fleming, he worked on deals such as the IPO of the Tracker Fund, the IPO of SunEvision, the sale of Hong Kong Telecom to PCCW and the sale...