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‘New kid on the block’ disrupts established order with lead role on Schroders takeover
Investment bank, like the group, wants to diversify outside France, and will lead with its strongest suit, real assets
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Bank restructuring work for governments has filled the coffers for Europe’s top FIG advisory businesses in 2009. With plenty more to come next year, David Rothnie looks at how the balance of power has shifted.
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Commerzbank may have consigned the Kleinwort name to the dustbin of history following its integration of Dresdner Bank, but corporate finance chief Roman Schmidt argues that its former rival’s investment bankers are crucial to its quest for dominance in Germany, writes David Rothnie.
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Andrea Orcel is trying to recruit up to 10 of Europe’s top dealmakers for Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s ailing mergers and acquisitions business. His track record, and a commitment from investment bank boss Tom Montag to double lending to European clients, give him a chance of luring the bankers he wants, writes David Rothnie.
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Tom King’s departure from Citi has enabled it to promote James Bardrick and Manuel Falco to joint heads of the European business. They are popular choices but the other contenders for the job may now feel their futures lie elsewhere.
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JPMorgan has established itself as the best investment bank in the world following the financial crisis, but its confrontational style of management raises big questions. This dysfunctionality was highlighted last week first when Bill Winters, co-chief executive of the investment bank, was unexpectedly replaced by Jes Staley.
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Europe’s established hierarchy of equity capital markets banks have spent months playing down the threat of universal rivals with strong balance sheets encroaching on their patch. But this week’s appointment by BNP Paribas of HSBC as lead bookrunner on its Eu4.3bn rights issue shows that they can no longer ignore the threat — and that the credit crunch winners are closing ranks against them.