News and Press
| Date: | 20 April 2009 |
| Title: | Fenchurch growth continues with new senior hires |
| Author: | - |
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Fenchurch Advisory Partners, the investment banking advisory boutique
specialising in financial services, is pleased to announce that Simon
Thompson is joining the firm as a Director.
Simon joins Fenchurch from UBS Investment Bank where he was an Executive
Director in the Financial Institutions Group. He has extensive advisory
and capital markets experience, particularly involving the insurance sector.
At UBS, Simon also had primary responsibility for leading coverage of
private equity relationships for the financial services sector. Prior
to UBS, Simon qualified as a Chartered Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
This is the second significant recent addition to the senior team at Fenchurch
following the appointment of Vincent Bounie who joined as a Director from
Morgan Stanley in January. In addition to these appointments, Fenchurch
has also recently recruited several associates and analysts from leading
investment banks.
Commenting on the appointments, Malik Karim, Managing Director of Fenchurch
said:
“Simon and Vincent are proven and established bankers who reinforce
our capabilities in insurance and asset management. The universe of credible
advisers to the financial services sector has shrunk whilst the industry
experiences fundamental structural and regulatory change. We anticipate
a significant increase in demand for M&A and corporate finance advice
from sector participants.”
Information on Fenchurch Advisory Partners:
Fenchurch Advisory Partners is a leading London-based independent investment
banking boutique specialising purely in financial services. The Senior
Advisers to the firm are Sir Peter Middleton, former Permanent Secretary
at HM Treasury and Chairman of Barclays, and Ian Chippendale, former Chairman
of RBS Insurance.
Fenchurch’s recent public assignments include advising:
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Money Portal on its strategic review and capital restructuring; |
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Langholm in relation to its 52% shareholding in Just Retirement; |
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LV= on the disposal of Hero to The Capita Group; |
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Allstate in relation to RBS Insurance; |
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Suffolk Life on its sale to Legal & General; |
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LV= on its £150 million recommended cash offer for Highway Insurance Group Plc; |
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F&C Asset Management on the combination of F&C’s property fund management business with REIT Asset Management to form F&C REIT; |
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Yorkshire Building Society on its merger with Barnsley Building Society; and |
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Legal & General on its partnership arrangement with Hermes in relation to £22 billion of indexed assets. |
Information on New Joiners:
Simon Thompson – Director (joined 6th April 2009)
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Simon has over 9 years of investment banking experience and is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) |
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He is a former Executive Director at UBS in the Financial Institutions
Group (FIG) with responsibility for coverage of the European financial
sector and prior to this he qualified as a Chartered Accountant
at PwC |
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He has extensive corporate transaction and capital markets experience
advising UK insurance clients, including Prudential, Saga and a
number of Lloyd’s insurers, and had the primary responsibility
for private equity relationships within the FIG team at UBS |
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Simon represented England at schoolboys level rugby union and is an Oxford University rugby ‘Blue’ |
Vincent Bounie – Director (joined 19th January 2009)
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Vincent has over 10 years of experience in investment banking |
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He is a former Executive Director at Morgan Stanley having previously
been a Partner at Lexicon, and at Credit Suisse (DLJ) and Putnam
Lovell |
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He provided M&A and capital markets advisory services for
European asset managers, including traditional and alternative money
managers, subsidiaries of large financial institutions as well as
independents and private banks |
Contacts:
| Malik Karim | 020 7382 2222 |
| Simon Thompson |
www.fenchurchadvisory.com
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