Goldman Sachs has named Steven Barg, currently co-head of investment banking in South East Asia, to head mergers and acquisitions capital markets in New York. He will work with clients “on the equity market implications of strategic activities,†according to an internal memo.
Mr. Barg, an American, will relocate early next month to New York from Singapore, where he had moved just last year. He was previously co-head of equity capital markets for Asia excluding Japan and was based in Hong Kong.
He joined Goldman as a partner in 2010 from UBS, where he had been head of global capital markets for Asia for two years. Before UBS, he worked at Credit Suisse in New York and London.A 1984 graduate of Wesleyan University, Mr. Barg earned an M.B.A. at Stanford University.
