UPDATE 3-MOVES-Evercore, JP Morgan, Bank of America

(Adds Evercore, Arent Fox LLP, Chadbourne & Parke)

May 14 (Reuters) - The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Thursday. To inform us of other job changes, e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.

EVERCORE PARTNERS (EVR.N)

The U.S. merger advisory boutique investment firm appointed Mark Friedman as a senior managing director to co-head the firm's transportation practice. Friedman, previously with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, will set up and head Evercore's new shipping advisory business. He will be based in New York.

ARENT FOX LLP

Law firm Arent Fox said it hired former Washington, DC, Mayor Anthony Williams as director of its new state and municipal practice.

CHADBOURNE & PARKE LLP

The law firm said two of the five partners who last week were reported moving to law firm Dechert LLP are staying with Chadbourne. The firm said that Mikhail Rozenberg and Jennifer Handz are remaining with the firm, both in Moscow. In addition, counsels Julia Romanova, Dmitry Gubarev and Olga Koniuhova will remain with Chadbourne.

JP MORGAN (JPM.N)

Charles Li, a Wall Street veteran and top boss of JP Morgan in China, confirmed media reports that he would leave the bank to pursue other interests. [ID:nSHA28201]

BANK OF AMERICA (BAC.N)

The head of Bank of America's Asia mergers and acquisitions practice is leaving the bank, a source familiar with the matter said, the latest in a series of high-level departures for the company. Kalpana Desai is head of Asia M&A, excluding Japan and including India and Australia. She spent more than a decade in Hong Kong with Merrill Lynch before the BofA takeover. [ID:nSP424489]

DEUTSCHE BANK (DBKGn.DE)

Deutsche Bank hired Michael Masterson away from Bank of America to help run its transportation and infrastructure investment banking business in the Americas, according to an internal memo obtained by Reuters. Masterson will be a managing director at Deutsche Bank and co-head of the Americas transportation and infrastructure group with Craig Fuehrer, according to the memo.

KPMG

The UK firm has promoted Marykay Fuller and Nick Smith to partners, and appointed Lloyd Gold as a director. Fuller joined KPMG Restructuring in 2002 while Smith has been here since 1996. Gold joins from REL Consultancy Group, where he was account director and head of operations in the United States over a 13-year period.