BNP Paribas Poaches Morgan Stanley’s Chow for Leveraged Finance

BNP Paribas said it has snared Denise Chow from Morgan Stanley’s leveraged finance team, one in a string of recent moves across lenders’ debt capital markets desks.

Chow, who worked at the French bank for nearly four years before joining Morgan Stanley in 2022, is returning to BNP’s leveraged finance team as a managing director, where she will work with bankers covering financial sponsors.

Before her first stint at BNP, Chow worked in Deutsche Bank AG’s leveraged finance team for approximately eight years. In her new position, Chow will report to Erin Brown, BNP’s co-head of global capital markets ...