Published: August 16, 2010
Former Goldman Sachs MD to run Europe and Middle East team.
Daiwa Capital Markets, the investment banking business of Japan's Daiwa Securities Group, has hired Meurig Williams as regional head of equity for Europe and the Middle East.
Williams has been appointed managing director of Daiwa Capital Markets Europe, tasked with working with the firm’s other regional equity heads to build its franchise in the pan-Asian equities markets. He'll work in the firm's London office and report to Yoshio Urata, global head of equity sales, in Hong Kong, and Masami Tada, chairman and CEO of Daiwa Europe.
Williams was formerly a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he spent 12 years. He was also previously CEO of WiJo Capital, a London-based investment management company. He started his career at Invesco as a portfolio manager specialising in Japanese equity portfolios.