HSBC has announced several senior leadership appointments within its Saudi Arabian investment banking divisions, spanning leveraged and acquisition finance (LAF), equity capital markets (ECM), and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). According to an internal bank memo, Andrew Pedder has been designated as the new Head of Leveraged and Acquisition Finance for the Kingdom and will officially assume his role in August. Additionally, Chris Johannson and Pierre Fayad have joined the corporate finance business as Directors of ECM and M&A, respectively, with their appointments taking effect in July.
Pedder brings extensive internal experience to the position, having managed diverse debt financing operations across the UK, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore since joining HSBC in 2009. In his new capacity, he will supervise the origination and execution of LAF initiatives in Saudi Arabia, focusing on structuring financing solutions for sovereign, corporate, and financial institution clients.
The corporate finance expansion is further supported by Johannson, who transfers to the region following a ten-year tenure at HSBC Continental Europe, where he managed over EUR 80 billion in equity capital transactions, including initial public offerings, rights issues, convertible bonds, and accelerated bookbuilds. Fayad joins the firm with an investment banking background that includes tenures at Lazard and a seven-year stint at Goldman Sachs in Paris, where he directed European M&A transactions across the technology, media, telecom, healthcare, consumer, chemicals, and industrial sectors.
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