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Simon Mackenzie Smith, chair of corporate and investment banking for the UK and Ireland at Bank of America, is retiring.
Mackenzie Smith, one of the best-known dealmakers in the City who has worked with the biggest UK blue-chip companies, is set to step down from Bank of America after 25 years at the bank, according to an internal memo seen by Financial News.