Qatalyst Group, the West Coast boutique advisory firm led by Frank Quattrone, has hired Marcie Vu as a partner.
Ms. Vu was most recently head of consumer Internet investment banking at Morgan Stanley. She was part of the team that helped take Facebook and LinkedIn public. She also advised AdMob on its $750 million acquisition by Google and Cnet on its sale to CBS for $18 billion in 2008.
“Marcie’s deep industry knowledge, vast network of relationships and extensive transaction experience with established and emerging internet leaders will add significantly to our strong consumer technology practice led by my co-founder Jonathan Turner,†Mr. Quattrone said in a statement.
Over the last 12 months, Qatalyst ranks 12th among firms advising on technology transactions in the United States, according to Thomson Reuters data, with eight deals worth more than $8 billion.
Ms. Vu, 40, will be based at Qatalyst’s San Francisco headquarters. She joined Morgan Stanley in 2002.
A 2010 profile in Investment Dealers’ Digest, described how she and her family fled from Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Her father was head of military intelligence for the South Vietnamese government, according to the article.
