Philip Wong to join BoA Merrill in equity syndicate role

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has hired former UBS syndicate banker Philip Wong as it continues to build its equity capital markets business in Asia. According to sources, Wong will join the ECM team at BoA Merrill as an associate and will work on the equity syndicate desk that is run by Nicholas Lee.

His hire comes a couple of months after BoA Merrill hired Wong’s former boss at UBS, James Fleming, as co-head of Asia ECM and also follows Matthew Koder’s move from UBS to BoA Merrill earlier this year to become head of the corporate and investment banking business in Asia.
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