The team, which provides advisory, capital markets, structured financing, and hedging and investment solutions, is adding an investment banker with 18 years of experience across a variety of sectors.
Natixis has appointed James Thomson as head of financial sponsors coverage, Asia Pacific, according to an announcement on Wednesday.
Based in Hong Kong, he reports to Aurelien Lasjunies, head of coverage, Asia Pacific, and Meriem Smida, global head, sponsor coverage group.
Broad Experience
Thomson has worked across a broad range of sectors, including aviation, logistics, transportation, technology, banking and insurance, real estate and natural resources in both Asia Pacific and Europe. He joined Natixis in 2019 as a managing director in the aviation sector team, Asia Pacific. He previously was Deutsche Bank's head of transportation, aviation and logistics, Asia Pacific.
Natixis is the international asset management, investment banking and financial services arm of French Group BPCE. Earlier this week, the firm named Sanjeev Kumar as Singapore senior country manager as well as head of Southeast Asia and South Asia corporate and investment banking,
