Jefferies Appoints Jonathan Slone as Chairman of Asia
July 14 2019 - 6:00PM
Business Wire
Jefferies announced today the recent appointment of Jonathan
Slone as Chairman of Asia based in Hong Kong. In this role, Mr.
Slone will focus on the firm’s major relationships for investment
banking and trading throughout Asia. Prior to joining Jefferies,
Mr. Slone spent over three decades at CLSA Ltd., where he was their
longstanding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and oversaw
CLSA's global operations of broking, investment banking, asset
management, research and sales.
“We are excited to welcome Jonathan as Chairman of Jefferies’
Asia business,” said Jefferies’ CEO, Rich Handler, and President,
Brian Friedman. “The significant hires in recent weeks across our
firm’s Asian platform represent the next stage of growth and
commitment to our firm’s continued global expansion. These new
additions, combined with our strong existing team, will enable
Jefferies to even better serve our global client base.”
Jefferies has recently made a number of significant hires in
Asia. Notably, Christopher Wood joined as Global Head of Equity
Strategy. Mr. Wood has been the top-ranked equity strategist in
almost all major broker polls in Asia during the last two decades
and, along with his team, has published the famous weekly “GREED
& fear” since 1996. Also joining recently is a global
microstrategy research team, including 20-year veteran Desh
Peramunetilleke as Head of MicroStrategy Product. These recent
hires also came from CLSA and will be based in Hong Kong.
Additionally, the firm has recently hired 54 professionals across
sales, trading, research and investment banking in Australia, Japan
and Hong Kong.
“The hiring of Jonathan represents a significant step in our
continued expansion of our Asia footprint, including meaningful
additions to our teams in Japan and Hong Kong, as well the addition
of equities research, sales and trading in Australia,” commented
Peter Forlenza, Jefferies’ Global Head of Equities.
Mr. Slone added, “I am excited to be joining Jefferies at this
time of considerable momentum in APAC as well as market share gains
and strength in our Equities business globally.”
Jefferies Group LLC, the largest independent full-service global
investment banking firm headquartered in the U.S. focused on
serving clients for over 55 years, is a leader in providing
insight, expertise and execution to investors, companies and
governments. Our firm provides a full range of investment banking,
advisory, sales and trading, research and wealth management
services across all products in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jefferies
Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF), a diversified financial services
company.
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