ABN Amro has hired Franck Ceddaha from the Paris office of Credit Suisse First Boston to increase its coverage of the French mergers and acquisitions market.

Ceddaha joins Pierre Fleuriot's team of 30 Paris-based M&A bankers as a managing director. Ceddaha was head of M&A execution at CSFB, a position he carried over from DLJ, the US investment bank which CSFB took over in 2000. Prior to joining DLJ in 1999, Ceddaha spent 10 years in the investment banking division of Paribas.