One of the high-profile departures from Morgan Stanley last week has landed at Credit Suisse First Boston.

Vikram Gandhi is joining CSFB as head of the firm’s Global Financial Institutions Group, the same role he left at Morgan Stanley in a management shakeup last week.

At CSFB, Gandhi will be responsible for integrating all of the firm’s financial institutions’ capabilities into the global FIG. “This will include client coverage and the development and delivery of solutions to our FIG client base in a wide range of advisory and financing products, including derivatives and structured products,” it said in a news release.

Gandhi will be based in New York, and report jointly to Marc Granetz and Eric Varvel, global co-heads of corporate and investment banking, and Jim Healy, global head of fixed income. Mark Ellman will continue as head of the Financial Institutions Group within the corporate and investment banking business and will report to Gandhi.

Gandhi served as co-head of Morgan Stanley’s FIG since 2003, managing many of that firm’s top client relationships in the U.S. and Europe. He joined its financial institutions practice in 1995 and then served as president of Morgan Stanley – India from 1997 until 1999; chief operating officer of its e-commerce initiatives from 1999 through 2001; and head of strategy for the institutional securities business from 2001 until 2003.