The head of healthcare banking in Europe, Middle East and Africa at Nomura is Financial News' banker of the week, after leading the Japanese bank's European advisory effort on drug firm Takeda’s $14bn acquisition of Swiss rival Nycomed.

Paolo Cicchine, a managing director at Nomura who was one of Lehman Brother's London stars at the time of its collapse, led Nomura's European advisory efforts on the transaction alongside Tokyo-based colleague Hideshi Yamamoto.