Jie Lian, the former head of China equity capital markets at Goldman Sachs, has left the firm to pursue a new challenge in the corporate world, joining a growing group of successful bankers who are using the current downturn to try their hand at something else.
In a reflection of last year's slowdown in the primary equity markets and the difficulty for smaller unknown Chinese firms to complete initial public offerings, Lian changed his role in October last year to...