John Perkins will join Bank of America’s real estate investment banking group this month as a managing director with senior client coverage responsibility. Perkins will be based in New York and will report to Ron Sturzenegger, global head of the real estate investment banking group. Perkins joins BofA from JPMorgan Securities, where he has worked for the past 12 years on a broad spectrum of M&A, equity and debt capital-raising transactions for clients across the real estate, lodging and gaming industries.