CLSA has hired Edward Slade to run ECM for South East Asia. He will fill a new role created by the firm, as it seeks to balance its current heavy bias towards Hong Kong and China.
Slade will report to Richard Taylor, CLSA's head of investment banking, and started work in Singapore last Monday. The firm has already completed two IPO's out of Singapore so far this year - for UTAC and United Communications - and hopes to further replicate its success in Hong Kong serving small to medium sized private sector companies.
Slade is a well-known and widely-liked figure in Asian ECM having been...
