Via International Herald Tribune

Every major investment bank now has a Chinese-born star banker: Goldman Sachs has Fang Fenglei; Merrill Lynch has Erhfei Liu; Morgan Stanley has Jonathan Zhu; J.P. Morgan has Charles Li; and Citigroup has Wei Christianson.

But a great deal is known about this crop of fairly secretive bankers: Most of them traveled west in the 1980s to study in the United States. They have since returned home to play key roles in a growing number of cross-border megadeals, and in the last year, Chinese-born bankers have been a driving force in a growing number of high-profile global agreements.