HSBC has appointed Jeff Bennett as head of leveraged and acquisition finance -
Asia-Pacific, with immediate effect.

Bennett role is to lead HSBC's efforts in Asia to extend and expand its capabilities in event driven investment grade and non-investment grade financings, including corporate acquisition financings and refinancings, recapitalisations, restructurings, financial sponsor led leveraged buy-outs and bridge financing.

Bennett joined HSBC in May 2007 as a managing director of leveraged and
acquisition finance. He has over 20 years of acquisition financing experience, and prior to HSBC, he was a managing director in the acquisition finance group of Morgan Stanley with responsibility for pan-European origination and execution of corporate and private equity event driven financings.

He will report functionally to Kevin Adeson, global head of leveraged and acquisition finance, and locally to Frank Slevin, head of global banking, Asia-Pacific. Adeson said: "Jeff's appointment demonstrates the strategic importance and our continuing commitment to our acquisition finance platform in Asia."