Barclays has named Neel Laungani as APAC head of financial sponsors.
In the Hong Kong-based role, Laungani is responsible for financial sponsor transactions origination and execution in the region.
He reports locally to APAC head of investment banking Avinash Thakur, who joined the firm earlier this year, and Christian Oberle, global head of financial sponsors.
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Part of the investment banking business, Barclays’ financial sponsors division works with private equity firms and investment funds. Earlier this year, Jason Short was appointed a managing director within the group, while Isobel van Daesdonk and Scott Willard were named managing directors in the Americas.
Barclays reported £1.2 billion in investment banking revenues for H1 2025, up 1% year-on-year.
Thakur commented, “As a top five global financial sponsors franchise, we have the global reach and sector depth across the world’s largest financial centres, which is a key differentiator to our clients. Neel will be instrumental in growing our advisory and ECM activities with sponsor clients – one of our key priorities.”
Laungani has more than three decades of industry experience, and joins Barclays after almost three years at Credit Suisse as APAC head of financial sponsors and vice chairman of APAC technology, media and telecom (TMT) investment banking. Prior to this, he was head of APAC TMT at Deutsche Bank.
He has also held senior roles at Standard Chartered Bank and Lehman Brothers.
