HSBC has secured the hire of one of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s top mergers and acquisitions advisers in London as part of a chase for investment banking business on its home turf.

Philip Noblet, previously chairman of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, will leave his post at BAML later this month, according to people familiar with the matter. The hire comes as HSBC finalises the appointment of another BAML investment banker, Paul Bundred, to the same unit.