Marshall Nicholson
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University of Virginia (MBA)
Marshall Nicholson | |
|---|---|
| Education | Columbia University (BS, MS) University of Virginia (MBA) |
| Occupation | Investment banker |
| Employer(s) | BOC International China International Capital Corp Nomura |
John Marshall Nicholson (Chinese: 凌瀚燊) is a Hong Kong investment banker.
Nicholson worked at Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan in New York City before moving to Hong Kong in 2002 to take up a position as Credit Suisse First Boston's Asia-ex-Japan head of equity capital markets.[1] In 2005, he transferred to the Macquarie Group, where he held the position of head of China equity capital markets; his hiring was part of a large recruitment drive which saw Macquarie poach Hong Kong-based ECM staff from a number of major banks.[2][3]
In January 2007, Nicholson left Macquarie, one of several senior ECM bankers resigning at the time.[4] He joined BOC International as vice-chairman of the investment banking division, one of the first senior foreign executives at any Chinese bank.[2][5] At BOCI, he served as advisor on a number of major deals, including Rusal's initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2010.[6] Nicholson's strategy after he joined involved a "build out" of the ECM business and the institutional equities franchise. In 2005, two years before he joined, BOCI led no equity offerings at all, and only seven in 2006; in 2008 through 2010, in contrast, it led sixty-five.[7][8]
In February 2012, Nicholson resigned from his post at BOCI.[9][10] He then became a managing director at China International Capital Corp, the first joint venture investment bank in China.[2] He resigned from CICC in June 2014.[11][12] In March 2015, Nicholson took a new post at Nomura's Hong Kong office as head of Asia-ex-Japan equity capital markets.[13] As of December 2017 he remained in that position.[14]