BMA hires new principal advisor

The Bond Market Association just announced Mary Kuan's appointment as principal staff advisor to the Association's corporate credit markets division. Kuan was also named vice president and assistant general counsel reporting to Lynnette Hotchkiss, senior vice president and associate general counsel with supervisory responsibility for the Association's corporate credit markets, municipal securities, MBS and securitized products, funding, and government and agency divisions. As the division's principal staff advisor, Kuan will focus on initiatives that affect the corporate bond markets, working with BMA members and corporate division committees. Kuan was previously from the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where she was a corporate associate in capital markets and mergers & acquisitions.