Thursday, May 03, 2012

DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--Waleed El-Amir, one of Bank of America-Merrill Lynch's senior bankers in the Middle East, has resigned, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

El-Amir was head of the group's Middle East, North Africa and Turkey investment banking and capital markets. He has spent 16 years working for Merrill.

A spokeswoman for the bank in Dubai declined to comment.

-By Nicolas Parasie, Dow Jones Newswires, +9714 446 1681, nicolas.parasie@dowjones.com

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