By Quentin Webb
LONDON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Adrian Mee, Nomura's top European mergers and acquisitions (M&A) banker, has left to rejoin former Lehman Brothers colleague Christian Meissner at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Mee told Reuters he will join BoAML as international head of M&A in December. He had been global co-head of healthcare at Morgan Stanley before joining Lehman Brothers in 2006, remaining after Nomura took on Lehman's European operations.
He advised Britain's International Power on its tie-up with GDF Suez of France, agreed in August.
Nomura spokesman Patrick Meyer confirmed Mee had left the bank and said his role, as head of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), would now be shared by Andrew McNaught and Adrian Fisk.
McNaught joined in December when Nomura acquired boutique Tricorn Partners. Newspaper reports named him as one of the bankers who advised the 'Red Knights', a group of wealthy soccer supporters that considered buying Manchester United.
Fisk, a Lehman alumnus, advised brewers Heineken and Carlsberg on the 2008 takeover and break-up of Scottish and Newcastle.
Meissner, Nomura's former deputy global head of investment banking, joined BoAML in July as head of investment banking for EMEA.
It was not immediately clear what role Carlo Calabria, BoAML's current head of international M&A, will now take.
BoAML had no immediate comment.
BoAML ranks fifth worldwide for announced M&A this year, according to Thomson Reuters data, with $244 billion of deals. Nomura is 18th with $96 billion.
In London, BoAML's other recent hires include Julian Mylchreest and two other senior energy bankers from Citigroup, and private-equity banker Rob Firth from Deutsche Bank.
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LONDON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Adrian Mee, Nomura's top European mergers and acquisitions (M&A) banker, has left to rejoin former Lehman Brothers colleague Christian Meissner at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Mee told Reuters he will join BoAML as international head of M&A in December. He had been global co-head of healthcare at Morgan Stanley before joining Lehman Brothers in 2006, remaining after Nomura took on Lehman's European operations.
He advised Britain's International Power on its tie-up with GDF Suez of France, agreed in August.
Nomura spokesman Patrick Meyer confirmed Mee had left the bank and said his role, as head of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), would now be shared by Andrew McNaught and Adrian Fisk.
McNaught joined in December when Nomura acquired boutique Tricorn Partners. Newspaper reports named him as one of the bankers who advised the 'Red Knights', a group of wealthy soccer supporters that considered buying Manchester United.
Fisk, a Lehman alumnus, advised brewers Heineken and Carlsberg on the 2008 takeover and break-up of Scottish and Newcastle.
Meissner, Nomura's former deputy global head of investment banking, joined BoAML in July as head of investment banking for EMEA.
It was not immediately clear what role Carlo Calabria, BoAML's current head of international M&A, will now take.
BoAML had no immediate comment.
BoAML ranks fifth worldwide for announced M&A this year, according to Thomson Reuters data, with $244 billion of deals. Nomura is 18th with $96 billion.
In London, BoAML's other recent hires include Julian Mylchreest and two other senior energy bankers from Citigroup, and private-equity banker Rob Firth from Deutsche Bank.
(Reporting by Quentin Webb; Editing by David Holmes) Keywords: BANKOFAMERICA MEE/ (quentin.webb.reuters.com@reuters.net; +44 207 542 9405) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2010. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.