Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has hired Yuichiro Shinozaki from Goldman Sachs to sit as its director in charge of developing and structuring equity investments for the bank's clients in the Japanese market. BAML's parent company Bank of America (BoA) has also appointed Mashiro Oshige as managing director in charge of Japan equity product sales with the exception of research sales, a Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Tokyo spokesman confirmed. Oshige was formerly head of equity derivatives