European jobs roundup: Movement in M&A and equities

Several banks made senior appointments in the past week. Among them HSBC, which has been hoovering up investment bankers ever since making 30 of its own redundant in September, hired Matteo Canonaco for its mergers and acquisitions advisory practice.

Canonaco, an ex-Lazard banker, is to build relationships with private equity houses and other firms, as European head of financial sponsors in corporate finance and advisory.

BNP Paribas combined its corporate finance and client coverage division, which includes corporate banking activities, into a single new division 'Coverage and Territories Europe'. The division will be headed by Eric Raynaud, a former head of fixed income at BNP Paribas. However, Thierry Varène, who leads the bank's corporate finance team, will oversee the new department.

Goldman Sachs plundered the corporate world for a new managing director for its Dutch office. The firm hired Michiel Lap from Orange, the mobile phone company. Lap spent 17 years at Morgan Stanley before joining Orange in 2001. Other corporate financiers who left the industry during the past three years are also understood to be considering going back to it, as activity looks set to pick up.

ABN Amro continued to boost its equity capital markets (ECM) team. The Dutch bank made its third senior ECM appointment since September by hiring Christopher Coleman from Morgan Stanley as head of European convertibles trading

There were several internal moves. Lehman looked within for new co-heads of European equities and came up with John Phizackerley and Benoit Savoret. Phizackerley and Savoret will occupy the post left empty by Roger Nagioff, who was promoted to chief financial officer in Europe a few weeks ago.

Citigroup appointed Richard Moore to take over as head of European fixed income in London. Moore currently heads Citigroup's global rates and currencies group. He will replace Steve Bowman, who is returning to New York.

Clifford Chance, the law firm, reshuffled staff in a bid to capitalise on the fast growing weather derivatives market. It set up a new 40-person strong European weather risk and emissions group headed by Claude Brown, a partner in the derivatives and financial regulatory group and Brian Hall, head of the planning and environment group.