Citi announced in an internal memo yesterday that it has wooed Alex Schrantz from Barclays to join the US firm as its new head of corporate finance for Asia-Pacific. He will be based in Hong Kong.
Schrantz had been head of Barclays’ corporate finance advisory and execution team for Asia-Pacific since May 2011. Prior to this, he spent 19 years with Goldman Sachs in New York, London and Hong Kong, where his last job was head of corporate finance for Asia ex-Japan. In that role, he was a member of Goldman Sachs's global commitments committee and the Asia capital committee.
Schrantz is the second banker in...