Morgan Stanley M&A Chief McDonald Dies

Dec. 8 - LONDON (Reuters) - Gavin MacDonald, the head of mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, has died. He was 47.

MacDonald died on Friday evening, after suffering a heart attack at Morgan Stanley’s offices in Canary Wharf, London, earlier last week, Morgan Stanley spokesman Michael Wang said.

A founding member of Morgan Stanley’s European M&A team, MacDonald had worked on a string of multi-billion dollar deals, and became global head of M&A in 2007 — the first London-based banker to hold that role for the Wall Street firm. Read more.