Macquarie expands China corporate finance team

MacquarieÆs corporate finance division has received a big boost with the appointments of Robert Xie and Barbara Zhang to help run the China business. Xie comes to the Australian firm as managing director and head of China private equity. He makes the move from BOC International and will now report to Andrew Low, Macquarie's head of Asian corporate finance. At the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of China, Xie was managing director and founding chairman of its private equity group…