Bank of America Merrill Lynch is on a roll the latest big hire is investment banker Margaret Ren, who is rejoining BoA Merrill as China executive and chairman. She will also become a member of the firm’s Asia-Pacific executive committee, the bank said yesterday.
Last week the firm hired “flow monster” Loh Boon Chye as deputy president for Asia-Pacific and head of Asia-Pacific global markets. This week it’s a well-known China rainmaker.
Ren is powerfully connected she is a daughter-in-law of former Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang so the firm is not surprisingly hopeful that she will be able to help land big deals. But insiders...