Jefferies adds four MDs to equities

Amid all the gloom and the news of job cuts at a number of investment banks, Jefferies has continued its Asia hiring spree with four new managing directors: Marcus Okuno, Chua Lee Leng, Lisa Lau and Conor O’Mara

Okuno has joined in equity sales, based in Tokyo He was most recently at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he spent 13 years He has also worked at Robertson Stephens and Salomon Smith Barney

Chua has joined in equity sales and trading, based in Singapore She has 17 years of experience and was last in regional equity sales at UBS She has also worked at HSBC and Merrill Lynch

Lau will be co-head of Hong Kong...