Hong Kong Team

Simon Waterson co-runs our Hong Kong office with Dionne Tai.  He joined Eban in March 2000 and since joining, his focus has been working on senior level mandates throughout the Asia-Pacific region requiring professionals from within Equities - sales (cash & derivatives), research (all sectors), prime broking, electronic trading, proprietary trading etc.  In addition he has carried out numerous mandates on the behalf of Hedge Funds (all strategies).  Simon arrived in Hong Kong in 1992 and joined Burns Hall and he worked predominately on Equity Sales and Research roles in all the key Asian markets.  In 1995 he founded his own firm, Stanton Chase International, and continued to work on mandates within the Equities sector throughout Asia.

Dionne Tai is a founding member of the Eban team in Hong Kong and has been instrumental in the firm’s development and continued success. She is responsible for Greater China related assignments within investment banking, private equity, equities and fixed income for positions where Mandarin is a pre-requisite. Dionne is also active within the Hong Kong market focusing on senior investment banking hires. She speaks fluent Mandarin and Cantonese which is perfectly complemented by her technical understanding of financial services and true appreciation of how to transact business effectively across Asia. Prior to joining Eban, she worked for an international boutique financial services search firm and began her career with Thornton Management (now RCM) in Hong Kong.

Christopher Smailes joined Eban, London in February 2006 initially focusing on equity markets, across the sell and buy-side in Europe. Chris moved to Hong Kong in 2008 to work exclusively on Asset Management and covers assignments across Asia-ex Japan. He began his career at a global recruitment firm in 2002 and by the time he left, was managing the financial services team and had successfully completed mandates for US and European investment banks and asset management firms.

Richard Hanson joined Eban in August 2009 to focus on mandates within the equities space throughout the Asia-Pacific region. In particular, he specialises in placing senior professionals across sales, trading and structuring of equity derivatives. Prior to joining Eban, he ran the equity derivatives practice for a prominent Asia search firm. Before making his move to Asia, Richard worked at Hammond Partners in London, executing mandates across the equity derivatives and asset management space in Europe. Richard graduated with an honors degree in Law from Cambridge University.