Merrill Lynch building Aussie prime brokerage

John Laws has transferred to Merrill Lynch in Australia where he will head Merrill LynchÆs business division offering its global debt and equities financing platform in Sydney and Melbourne.In his new job he will report to Melvyn Ford, regional head of global markets financing and services based in Hong Kong, and to Dan Ritchie, Merrill LynchÆs Australian head of equities.Australian-born Laws moves from New York where he previously worked as global head of funding and liquidity manage…