RBS Makes Senior Asian M&A Appointments

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS.LN) said Thursday it had made some senior appointments in its M&A and corporate finance team in Asia.

Richard Griffiths, Ivan Li and Tammy Wan join ABN Amro's M&A team as corporate executive directors and Michael Niederberger joins the corporate finance group as corporate director.

Peter Schulz, previously with ABN's London telecoms, media and technology coverage team, joins the Asian M&A business as an executive director. Francois Cohas, previously with ABN Amro's merchant bank unit, also joined the team as an executive director.

All of these new appointments are based in Hong Kong and will be part of RBS's newly-formed corporate sectors and advisory group, of which M&A is a key component.

The group combines M&A, corporate finance and the corporate financing and risk solutions team.

Griffiths rejoins ABN AMRO after a year at U.S. boutique M&A firm Houlihan Lokey in Hong Kong. Li joins from Lazard Ltd. (LAZ) in Hong Kong. Before joining RBS, Wan worked at Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong.