IFR 02.29.2020

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NATIXIS has hired

Aurelien Lasjunies as

Asia-Pacific coverage

head within its

corporate and

investment banking

division, based in Hong

Kong. Lasjunies, who

will be responsible for

developing relationships

with clients at senior

executive level, joined

from Credit Agricole,

where he was most

recently co-head of

investment banking for

APAC. An M&A banker

by background,

Lasjunies has spent the

past eight years with

Credit Agricole. He has

also worked at boutique

advisory firms

Goetzpartners and

Leonardo & Co as well

as Deloitte.

Joseph Belan has joined

UBS as a managing

director in its Toronto

office covering the

metals and mining

sector, in addition to

providing broader

corporate coverage in

Canada. Belan joined

from a firm he founded

in 2013, Switzerland-

based Novatrek

Capital. At Novatrek,

Belan was a senior

adviser to the Canada

Pension Plan

Investment Board and

led the development of

a strategy to deploy

capital in metals and

mining. His resume

also includes 15 years

M&A experience

working for Merrill

Lynch, Goldman Sachs

and Credit Suisse.

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