Peter Burnett joins Standard Chartered in corporate finance role

Peter Burnett, a long-time UBS banker, is moving to Standard Chartered to take up a newly created role as regional head of corporate finance for Northeast Asia, the UK-headquartered bank said in a release yesterday.

The hire will reunite Burnett with Mark Dowie, who he worked with between 2000 and 2004 when they were both co-heads of investment banking for Asia at UBS. Dowie is now group head of corporate finance at Standard Chartered.

Burnett has spent 24 years with UBS, most recently as chairman of global capital markets GCM for Asia, a role that he has held since June 2010 when UBS brought...