JP Morgan has appointed managing director Andrea Levantini as private banker for its Italy team. Based in Milan, Levantini will focus on clients located in central Italy, and report to Riccardo Pironti, head of JP Morgan Private Bank in Italy, the firm said yesterday.

Levantini previously worked at Banca IMI – Intesa Sanpaolo Group, where he was the head of international equity capital markets based in London. Prior to that, he was a managing director in the corporate finance team at Deutsche Bank in Rome and London.

Before that role, Levantini was head of equity capital markets for Italy, Spain, Greece and Turkey at Morgan Stanley in London.