Wall Street Banks Fight for Talent in Nordics as M&A Heats Up

Investment banks from Evercore Inc. to Lazard Inc. are poaching bankers in the Nordics as they seek to seize market share from homegrown players amid a dealmaking boom in the region.

Evercore last month hired Lars Ingemarsson, ex-head of Nordic investment banking at Citigroup Inc., to lead its new office in Stockholm and establish a team of 15 bankers.

Lazard appointed Jesper Jensen, who spent the past decade at Rothschild & Co., to open a new office in Copenhagen. The bank is assembling a team of five to six people there, according to Jean-Louis Girodolle, its ...