BANKS
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Mike Brown
Position: Corporate relationship director Age: 45 Qualifications: BA (Hons), MCIBS Career history: Joined Clydesdale Bank in 1986, and since 1994 has worked in various business and corporate banking roles. Currently corporate relationship director with responsibility for a portfolio of the bank’s larger corporate customers situated throughout the Highlands and north-east Scotland. Recent deals: Wide range of corporate transactions and refinancing including Ardtornish Estate and Scottish Provincial Press.
Philip Hamill
Position: Corporate relationship director Age: 35 Qualifications: BA (Hons), MCIBS Career history: Joined Clydesdale Bank’s graduate scheme and has subsequently specialised in corporate banking and acquisition finance roles for the last six years; involved in transactions including MBOs, MBIs, BIMBOs, corporate acquisitions and refinancing. Has recently taken on a relationship director role in Aberdeen. Recent deals: Wide range of corporate transactions across a variety of industry sectors including oil and gas manufacturing, education and food and drink.
Sheila McIntyre
Position: Corporate relationship director Age: 50 Qualifications: MBA, ACIB Career history: Over 20 years’ banking experience with a number of institutions including 10 years with RBS in large corporate credit and relationship management roles. Joined Clydesdale Bank in 2008. Recent deals: Wide range of refinancing, acquisition and restructuring transactions, particularly within oil and gas sector.
Stuart Simmers
Position: Corporate relationship director Age: 46 Qualifications: MA, CA Career history: Qualified with PwC in 1993 and, after financial roles with two large plcs, was joint founder and MD of a sports/outdoor retail outlet in Glasgow. Joined Clydesdale Bank in 2001 focusing on debt restructuring for high-value connection. In April 2014 joined the east of Scotland corporate team as relationship director managing a portfolio of the bank’s larger customers. Recent deals: Wide range of debt restructuring transactions including SMEs, syndications, plc and pre-pack sales, across a variety of industry sectors including manufacturing, engineering, oil and gas, marine and retail. More recently a number of corporate transactions to support the growth of existing customers.
Fraser Walker
Position: Corporate relationship director Age: 35 Qualifications: MA (Hons), MCSI Career history: 12 years’ banking experience. Joined Clydesdale Bank, corporate and structured finance, in 2008 with responsibility for managing a portfolio of corporate customers and generating new-to-bank business. Recent deals: Wide range of corporate transactions across a variety of industry sectors including manufacturing, engineering, food, travel, retail and education.
Steven Clark
Position: UK portfolio director, growth finance Age: 55 Qualifications: BA (Hons), DipFS, MCIBS Career history: More than 30 years’ banking experience initially with Yorkshire Bank and joined Clydesdale Bank in 2002. Joined the corporate team in 2006 to source and structure leveraged transactions. Now managing a portfolio of intellectual property-rich businesses within the bank’s growth finance team. Recent deals: Providing existing customers with additional funding in support of their growth aspirations.
HSBC BANK PLC
First Floor, 141 Bothwell Street, Glasgow G2 7EQ Telephone: 08455 847352 Email: dougbaikie@hsbc.com Website: www.hsbc.com Office locations: Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and UK-wide Deal types undertaken: Mergers and acquisitions; MBO/MBI/BIMBO; share buyback; refinancing; expansion finance; overseas financing; cross border transactions; project finance/PFI; capital market transactions. HSBC Holdings plc is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. Headquartered in London, it serves around 52m customers worldwide through 6,200 offices in 74 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, Africa, North America and Latin America. With assets of some $2.7trn at December 2013, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. In Scotland, the group has retail, commercial, corporate banking and wealth-management teams based in Aberdeen, Dundee, Dumfries, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Glasgow, Inverness, Perth and Stirling.
Doug Baikie
Position: Head of corporate banking, Scotland Qualifications: ACIBS, BSc (Hons) Career history: 17 years’ experience in corporate and commercial banking, with the past 15 years spent in London, the Midlands and Scotland with HSBC. Leads HSBC’s corporate banking team of relationship managers and product specialists, delivering a full range of HSBC’s global service capabilities to Scottish corporates.
Steve Hewes
Position: Head of leveraged finance, Scotland Qualifications: ACA Career history: More than five years as a senior manager in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Midlands transaction services team. Part of HSBC’s national leveraged finance team since 2002 and founder of team in Aberdeen in 2008. Recent deals: Mid-market private equity transactions.
Scott McClurg
Position: Head of leverage portfolio management, Scotland Qualifications: CA Career history: 17 years of corporate finance experience across a range of senior positions in advisory, corporate and banking. Responsible for Scotland’s mid-market private equity owned businesses for the last two years covering all aspects of banking including structured lending, asset finance, corporate banking and investment banking requirements. Recent deals: Mid-market private equity transactions.
INVESTEC BANK LTD
2 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7QP Telephone: 020 7597 4000 Email: keith.anderson@investec.co.uk Website: www.investec.co.uk Office locations: 18 locations throughout the UK Deal types undertaken: Mergers and acquisitions; disposals; public takeovers; corporate broking; initial public offerings (main market and AIM); secondary fundraisings; returns of capital.
Keith Anderson
Position: Managing director, head of corporate broking Age: 52 Qualifications: BAcc CA Career history: Qualified with Thomson McLintock in 1985, investment analyst with Campbell Neill & Co (1986); corporate broker at Hoare Govett (1987–1992); Panmure Gordon (1992–2001); Investec Bank (2002–present). Responsible for corporate broking client relationships across a variety of sectors including industrials, consumer, retail, food manufacturing, services and media. Recent team deals: IPOs including FDM, easyHotel, Gamma Telecom, Bonmarche, Card Factory, Saga, TSB and Royal Mail; secondary fundraisings including Consort Medical and Premier Foods; rule 3 financial adviser to Synergy Health in respect of the offer from Steris Corporation, Hyder Consulting in respect of the offer from Arcadis and Kentz in respect of the offer from SNC-Lavalin.
CA MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2014