HSBC has appointed Amitabh Malhotra as the head of Investment Banking for HSBC India. He will lead the investment banking and equity capital markets business in the country. He had worked at Rothschild India, where he was the co-head and managing director of the Global Investment Bank, based in Mumbai. He has also worked with KPMG and J P Morgan. He has over 20 years of investment banking experience and has worked on many cross border mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and PE transactions across industries such as telecom, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, aviation, consumer, business services and power.