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BOSTON (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase has hired veteran banker Alfredo Porretti to head its shareholder activism defense efforts in North America as investors are launching new campaigns to push corporations into making significant changes, three sources said.
FILE PHOTO: A sign of JP Morgan Chase Bank is seen in front of their headquarters tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 13, 2017. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky
He will head Shareholder Engagement and M&A Capital Markets for North America and will be based in New York, the sources said.
Porretti was previously head of Shareholder Advisory at independent investment bank Greenhill & Co, and before that worked at Morgan Stanley on the bank’s shareholder activism and corporate defense team.
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BOSTON (Reuters) – Two senior JP Morgan Chase & Co executives responsible for defending corporate clients against activist investors who push for companies to perform better have left the bank, three sources said.
Benjamin Wilson, head of shareholder activism defense for North America resigned this month to take another job in the banking industry while Kirshlen Moodley, who was head of the practice in Europe, Middle East and Africa, left late in 2020, the sources said.
Wilson who has worked at JP Morgan since 2008 and rose through the ranks in the bank’s Mergers & Acquisitions department is moving to position at Guggenheim Partners, two sources said.