Bank of America Merrill Lynch Builds Canada Corporate Banking Team with Key Hires

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Builds Canada Corporate Banking Team with Key
Hires
Chris Impey Joins As Head of Canada Corporate Banking; Daljeet Lamba Named
Managing Director, Canada Corporate Banking

NEW YORK, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch today
announced the expansion of its Canada Corporate Banking business with two key
hires in Toronto including Christopher Impey, as managing director and head of
Canada Corporate Banking. Impey will join the firm in October and report
jointly to Patricia DelGrande, head of Americas Corporate Banking, and Dan
Mida, head of Canada Corporate and Investment Banking. Earlier this summer,
Bank of America Merrill Lynch hired Daljeet Lamba as managing director, Canada
Corporate Banking. He will report to Impey.

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"Through the combination of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch, we have the
opportunity to aggressively grow our corporate banking capabilities in support
of our clients in Canada and the addition of Chris to spearhead this
initiative is instrumental," said DelGrande.

"This is an exciting growth area for our business in Canada, and Chris and
Daljeet's local expertise and extensive client relationship management skills
will be invaluable in building out our platform and presence in the region,"
said Mida.

Impey was recently the managing director responsible for Canadian corporate
clients at Citigroup and previously ran their Calgary office. During his
16-year tenure at Citigroup, Impey held various leadership roles in London,
Jakarta, Beijing, Calgary and Toronto, largely covering the Energy and Power
and Mining industries. He began his career at Midland Bank in the United
Kingdom, where he gained experience in retail and investment banking. Over the
course of his career, Impey has structured numerous complex mergers and
acquisition financing transactions for large, multi-national corporations.

Prior to joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Lamba was director, Global
Banking at Citigroup in Toronto. Throughout his nine years with Citigroup,
Lamba worked on numerous transactions successfully originating and delivering
the full spectrum of financial solutions to Canadian multinational and
domestic corporations across multiple industry sectors. Prior to Citigroup, he
was with Export Development Canada in Ottawa working primarily on delivering
bonding and working capital financing solutions to small and medium-sized
enterprises in the telecom, media and technology sectors.

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