Morgan Stanley Names a Top Consumer and Retail Banker in Asia
23 January 2018 - 07:37PM
Dow Jones News
By P.R. Venkat
SINGAPORE-- Morgan Stanley said one of its global co-heads for
consumer and retail investment banking will be based in Asia,
signaling the increasing importance of deals in those fast-growing
sectors in the region.
David Aronovitch, a longtime Morgan banker who is based in Hong
Kong, will share his role with two other executives, according to
an internal memo. A Morgan Stanley spokesman confirmed the contents
of the memo.
Mr. Aronovitch, 41 years old, joined Morgan Stanley in 1998 as
an analyst in its global capital markets division in New York,. He
has also worked in London and Singapore for the bank. He been
running the consumer and retail group in Asia since 2009.
He has recently worked on cross-border deals for the firm,
including McDonald's Corp.'s sale last year of its restaurants in
China to a consortium of local investors and private-equity firms.
He also advised Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 2016 on the sale of its
Chinese e-commerce business to retailer JD.com Inc., and worked on
the sale of South Korea's Oriental Brewery to Anheuser-Busch InBev
in 2014.
Morgan Stanley's two other co-heads of consumer and retail
banking, David Ciagne and Ben Frost, are based in New York.
Mr. Aronovitch's appointment highlights a growing appetite for
cross-border deals among companies looking to expand in domestic
and overseas markets in the consumer sector. Last year, Morgan
Stanley led Southeast Asian mergers-and-acquisition league tables
by volume, advising on deals worth a total of $30.3 billion across
all industries, according to Dealogic data.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 23, 2018 03:22 ET (08:22 GMT)
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