Alan Hartman, previously head of mergers and acquisitions for the Americas at Merrill, and Merrill's former global co-heads of healthcare investment banking, Richard Girling and Mark Robinson, are joining Centerview Partners, that bank said in a statement on Wednesday.

Centerview Partners was founded in 2006 and provides financial advisory services, including mergers and acquisitions, capital allocation and divestitures.

(Reporting by Kavita Chandran in Bangalore; Editing by Erica Billingham and Derek Caney)