International Corporate Finance

INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE RANKINGS

GERMANY BEST INVESTMENT BANKS

Industrials - Small to Mid Cap

The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS KEY LEADERS

LEADING

Baird Thomas Fetzer (Head of Investment Banking Germany, Switzerland and Austria)

Deutsche Bank Berthold Fuerst (Head of M&A Germany and Co-head of M&A, EMEA)

KPMG Leif Zierz (Global Head of Deal Advisory, Germany)

EXCELLENT

Altium Capital Sascha Pfeiffer (Managing Director), Tobias Schultheiss (Managing Director)

Berenberg Bank Christoph Bregulla (Head of M&A Advisory)

Freitag & Co Sebastian Freitag (Managing Director), Rogier Minderhout (Managing Director)

Nomura Holdings Yutaka Mogi (Co-Head of Investment Banking EMEA)

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Nobuaki Kurumatani (Global Head of Investment Banking)

UBS Investment Bank Florian von Hardenberg (Managing Director Germany and Austria), Wolfgang Fuchs (Managing Director)

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Commerzbank Christoph Thierolf (Global Head of M&A Advisory)

Deloitte Freddy Strottmann (Managing Partner Financial Advisory)

Goetzpartners Guido Decker (Managing Director), Hugues Archambault (Managing Director)

William Blair Philipp Mohr (Global Head of Industrials, Head of Germany)

RECOMMENDED

EC Mergers & Acquisitions Hans C. Hornbostel (Managing Director)

Greentech Capital Advisors Jim Long (Partner), Damien Sauer (Partner)

IKB Deutsche Industriebank Nicolaus Loos (Managing Director), Nicolas Rey (Vice President)

Rothschild Martin Reitz (Head of Germany, Switzerland and Austria), Dirk Pahlke (Co Head of M&A Germany)

Track record: With eight deals in the German

Industrials sector in 2015, Baird tops the list

of financial advisors in the industrial M&A

space in Germany. The bank worked in the

capacity of sell-side advisor on 75% of these

transactions, with the largest ones being

that of Metabo and SimonsVoss Technolo-

gies valued at $310 million and $240 million,

respectively.

Team & differentiation: The M&A team in Ger-

many is headed by Thomas Fetzer who was

brought on board in a bid to further strengthen

the core of Baird in September 2015. Tho-

mas previously served as managing direc-

tor at Jefferies and UBS, and is an expert

on the industrials sector. Additional senior

talent additions were made to the investment

banking team in the UK.

L eader:

Thomas Fetzer

E stablished:

1919

Thomas Fetzer

BAIRD: ADDITION OF A NEW TEAM LEADER IN GERMANY

GERMANY BEST INVESTMENT BANKS

Industrials - Large Cap

The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS KEY LEADERS

LEADING

Deutsche Bank Berthold Fuerst (Head of M&A Germany and Co-head of M&A, EMEA)

J.P.Morgan Dirk Albersmeier (Head of M&A Germany, Switzerland and Austria)

Rothschild Martin Reitz (Head of Germany, Switzerland and Austria), Dirk Pahlke (Co Head of M&A Germany)

EXCELLENT

Citi Christian Kames (Head of Investment Banking Germany, Switzerland and Austria)

Goldman Sachs Jorg Kukies (Co-Head of Investment Banking Germany), Wolfgang Fink (Co-Head of Investment Banking Germany)

Morgan Stanley Christian Zorn (Head of Investment Banking Germany and Austria)

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Arpwood Capital Rajeev Pal Gupta (Managing Director)

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Luigi Rizzo (Head of Investment Banking, EMEA), Luca Ferrari (Head of European M&A)

Lazard Ken Oliver Fritz (Co-Head of M&A Germany), Eric Fellhauer (Co-Head of M&A Germany)

Moelis & Company Stefan Müller (Head of Investment Banking Germany, Switzerland and Austria)

UBS Investment Bank Florian von Hardenberg (Managing Director Germany and Austria), Wolfgang Fuchs (Managing Director)