Oct 13 (Reuters) - Credit Suisse is hiring former head of investment banking at Bank of America Corp Christian Meissner, the company said on Tuesday.

Meissner would take over as the co-head of International Wealth Management Investment Banking Advisory and vice-chairman of Investment Banking.

Meissner, who left Bank of America in Sept. 2018, resigned from Julius Baer with immediate effect, the Swiss wealth manager said on Tuesday.

(Reporting by Pamela Barbaglia in London; additional reporting by Niket Nishant in Bengaluru; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi)