Soc Gen hiring for new acquisition finance team
Société Générale Corporate & Investment bank has announced plans to offer acquisition finance services in the Asia-Pacific region, and will be hiring a team of four in Hong Kong for a September kick-off.
The team will report to René de Laigue, global head of leveraged & acquisition finance and will be headed by Pierre Louis Auzel, managing director of the leveraged & acquisition finance business. Director Marc Frenkenberg also joins from the bank's European leveraged finance team.
Soc Gen says the team will provide debt arranging, underwriting and bookrunning services to the private equity firms as well as to corporate clients. It will target Hong Kong, Australia, New-Zealand, China, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
