IFR International - 20.10.2018

Who’s moving where...

JAIME PONCE, PRESIDENT OF SPAIN’S BANK RESTRUCTURING FUND FROB, P

Genoveva Ramon-Borja

has joined

MITSUBISHI UFJ

FINANCIAL GROUP

from BNP Paribas as

its head of corporate

banking for Iberia.

Ramon-Borja will start

in November after 23

years at BNP Paribas,

where she was a

managing director in

its corporate and

institutional banking

team and had

relationships with

many of Spain’s

biggest corporates.

She will replace

Ignacio Asin, who is

retiring after 33 years

at MUFG. The

Japanese bank said it

planned to “selectively

expand” its client base

in Iberia.

HOULIHAN LOKEY has

hired business services

M&A banker Jonathan

Harrison from Robert W

Baird. He will be based

in London. Harrison

joined Baird from

Deutsche Bank 10 years

ago, where he was

head of investment

banking in business

services across EMEA.

Houlihan Lokey has

been trying to build its

M&A practice in Europe

over the last few years

to match its expertise

in restructuring.

Harrison will report to

Larry DeAngelo, head

of business services,

and Matteo Manfredi

and Steve

Winningham, co-heads

of corporate finance for

Europe.

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“EU banks are increasingly

documenting their new issues

under EU law and, in most

cases, investors accept this and

do not require a premium”