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Hunter and Bailey: New power couple emerges in Morgan Stanley’s IB unit

Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Jun 5, 2025 – 2.03pm

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Morgan Stanley managing directors Andrew Hunter and Rowan Bailey have been promoted to co-lead a broader diversified industries group, after drilling their contact books for plum sell-roles for the investment bank over the past two years.

Morgan Stanley’s local CEO Richard Wagner. Oscar Colman

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.

Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.

Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.