David Dean, Nomura's co-head of Asian ECM, will retire from investment banking at the end of this week, departing a firm he has worked at for just over a decade.
Since his arrival in Hong Kong back in 2001, Dean has made Nomura a force to be reckoned with in Asian ECM. In particular he is credited with turning the Japanese POWL Public Offering Without Listing into a standard feature of large equity deals from the region.
Over the past four years, he has completed a total of 13 POWL's, starting with Korea Telecom's $2.24 billion ADR of June 2001 through to a $1.07...
