IFR Magazine – June 08, 2019

People

&Markets

EVERCORE has hired

Larry Sibley as head of

sales for its ISI equities

business. Evercore,

unlike many advisory

boutiques, has a fully-

fledged equities arm.

Sibley joined from

Credit Suisse, where he

spent 18 years, most

recently as head of

New York advisory

sales. He has also

worked in equity sales

at DLJ, before its

purchase by Credit

Suisse, and Sanford

Bernstein. Sibley has

also worked at

Goldman Sachs and

Bankers Trust, before it

was bought by

Deutsche Bank.

BARCLAYS has hired

Adam Abramson from

Deutsche Bank as

head of chemicals

banking for the

Americas, based in

New York. He will start

in August and report to

Rob Jeffries, global

head of chemicals

banking. Notable deals

Abramson has worked

on include the

US$4.6bn sale of

Solutia to Eastman

Chemical Company.

Barclays is active in

chemicals and was

bookrunner on

DowDuPont’s

US$12.7bn senior

notes offering.

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Steve Slater

”The M&A industry seems to

have been using market share

as a measure of reputation,

without ever asking whether

market share is actually related

to performance”