Soofian Zuberi

Soofian joined Merrill Lynch in 1993 as a member of the New York Investment Banking Corporate Finance team. He then became Co-head of Asia Equity Capital Markets, where he was responsible for the origination and execution of all aspects of the firm’s equity, equity-linked and structured equity capital markets franchise across both the public and private markets. After that, he was appointed Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific Global Markets Sales at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, responsible for all sales activities across Equities, Fixed Income, Currencies, Commodities, Rates, Structured Products and Asset & Liability Structuring. Soofian has worked on over 130 transactions and raised over US$125 billion across equity, structured equity and convertible bonds for both corporate and sovereign clients in Asia. He has also originated several ground breaking M&A transactions while in Capital Markets. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA (Hons.) from Reed College. In 2008, Soofian was selected as an Asia Society “Asia 21 Young Leader” and he has been featured in a variety of news media including CNBC, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, and local Chinese press.