International Corporate Finance

INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE RANKINGS

GERMANY BEST INVESTMENT BANKS

Retail & Consumer Goods - 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)

EXCELLENT

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

Credit Suisse Joachim Ringer (Co-Head of Investment Banking Germany and Austria)

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

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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

Deloitte Freddy Strottmann (Managing Partner Financial Advisory)

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)

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

UniCredit Group Gianfranco Bisagni (Deputy Head of Corporate and Investment Banking)

GERMANY BEST INVESTMENT BANKS

Retail & Consumer Goods - Small to Mid Cap

The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS KEY LEADERS

LEADING

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

Guggenheim Partners Ryan Mash (Senior Managing Director)

EXCELLENT

BHF Bank Frank Wilhelm Behrends (Head of Financial Markets and Corporate Banking)

DC Advisory Moritz von Bodman (Head of Consumer & Retail)

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

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

ACXIT Capital Partners Kay Hofmann (Managing Partner)

Concentro Management Michael Raab (Partner), Alexander Sasse (Partner)

Deloitte Freddy Strottmann (Managing Partner Financial Advisory)

EY Volker Strack (Partner Transaction Advisory)

RECOMMENDED

BNP Paribas Torsten Murke (Head of Germany), Enna Parisat (Head of Investment Banking Food, Beverage and Retail EMEA)

Clairfield International Martin Lemmer (Partner, Consumer & Retail)

N+1 Wolfram Schmerl (Managing Partner), Konstantin Kastius (Director)

Network Corporate Finance Joachim Dübner (Managing Partner), Christian Niederle (Managing Partner)

One Square Advisors Frank Gunther (Managing Director)

Track record: DC Advisory was active in all

key countries within Europe in 2015, having

a say in 33 transactions during the year. Key

transactions include: TGE Marine’s $184 mil-

lion acquisition by a group of investors in Ger-

many, $90 million sale of Ileos Graphic to Mayr

Melnhof Karton in France, and acquisition of

Orliman by Magnum Capital Industrial Partners

for $89 million in Spain.

Team & differentiation: Founded in 2009 after

the acquisition of Close Brother’s corporate

finance business by Daiwa Securities, the

firm today employs over 200 staff across

Europe, the US and Asia. The advisory team

in Germany consist of six Managing Direc-

tors, including the CEO. Moritz von Bodman

heads private equity and consumer & retail

practices and has been associated with the

firm since 2003.

L eader:

Moritz von Bodman

E stablished:

2009

Moritz von Bodman

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