Kenny Stewart
THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 1AF Telephone: 0131 556 8555 Website: www.rbs.co.uk/corporate Office locations: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Paisley, Motherwell, Ayr, Dumfries, Kirkcaldy, Inverness, Peterhead, Galashiels, Grangemouth, UK-wide and global Deal types undertaken: Acquisitions, disposal MBO/MBI/BIMBO; refinancing; development finance; PFI/project finance; corporate recovery/reconstruction. RBS is a UK-based banking and financial services company. Headquartered in Edinburgh, RBS operates in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia, serving over 24 million customers worldwide. RBS provides a wide range of products and services to personal, commercial and large corporates and institutional customers through its two main subsidiaries, The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest, as well as through a number of other well-known brands including Citizens, Ulster Bank and Coutts.
Malcolm Buchanan
Position: Managing director, corporate and commercial banking, Scotland Age: 47 Qualifications: MCIBS, MBA Career history: Joined NatWest in 1998 after 13 years with Clydesdale Bank. Over 20 years’ experience in corporate and commercial banking with front-line leadership roles across a variety of sectors in Scotland, the north of England and London. Currently head of The Royal Bank of Scotland’s corporate and commercial banking team in Scotland which looks after the bank’s customers with an annual turnover in excess of £2.5m.
Mark Gall
Position: Regional director, corporate and commercial banking, North of Scotland Qualifications: FCIBS Career history: Joined RBS in 2005 as director business development after 21 years at Clydesdale. Undertaken various roles in retail and commercial banking before taking up position as regional director in August 2007. Recent deals: Full range of mid-market deals and corporate deals, including MBOs, acquisitions and refinancings.
Kevin Havelock
Position: Regional director, commercial banking, Edinburgh and east of Scotland Age: 40 Qualifications: MBA, MA (Hons), FCIBS Career history: Joined RBS in 1996 and has had a variety of roles in mid and large corporate and commercial banking in Edinburgh. Recent deals: Full range of transactions undertaken, including acquisitions, investment and general corporate funding including new business.
Andy Kilgour
Position: Regional director, corporate banking Qualifications: MBA, FCIBS Career history: 20 years with RBS London, primarily as relationship manager. Two years in corporate and institutional division as senior manager specialising in financial institutions. Returned to Scotland in 2003 as director commercial banking in Tayside. More recently has had responsibility for the specialist sector portfolio in commercial banking Scotland including real estate finance, healthcare, agriculture, franchise and leisure. Current role managing the mid and large corporate coverage team based in Edinburgh. Full range of corporate transactions undertaken, including acquisitions, investment and general corporate funding including new business.
Jim McIntyre
Position: Regional director, corporate and commercial banking, west of Scotland Age: 51 Qualifications: MCIBS Career history: Joined RBS in 2002. Responsible for RBS corporate and commercial team in the west of Scotland. Recent deals: Full range of corporate deals including acquisitions and refinancings.
Position: Managing director, structured finance, Scotland Age: 46 Qualifications: MCIBS, CA Career history: Joined RBS in 1986. Moved to London in 1997, worked in leveraged finance and structured finance teams. Returned to head mid-market leveraged finance business in Scotland in 2005. Based in Edinburgh with responsibility for structured finance business across Scotland and north of England.
Stuart Heslop
Position: Managing director, real estate finance, Scotland Age: 44 Qualifications: FCIBS Career history: Joined RBS in 1987. Various roles in retail, commercial and corporate banking across Scotland. Previously responsible for major corporate banking in Scotland covering the plc and financial institutions market.
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SANTANDER
Telephone: 0141 275 9674 Email: Graham.silcock@santander.co.uk Website: www.santandercb.co.uk Office locations: Edinburgh, Glasgow Aberdeen and Inverness Deal types undertaken: Acquisition/disposal; MBO/MBI/BIMBO; refinancing; development finance; PFI/project finance. Whether small family companies or global corporations, we approach every business customer as an individual relationship. We strive to understand your unique needs and to make banking straightforward, so you can focus on growth. That’s why our clients get a dedicated, expert relationship director. We believe credit partners should meet clients directly, so our decisions are as transparent as possible. We work hard to do right by our customers and their businesses now and in the long term. It’s thanks to this approach that we’re proud to say four out of five of our business customers would recommend us.
Roddy Kilpatrick
Position: Director, structured finance Qualifications: LLB (Hons); CA Career history: Joined Santander in 2013 with 15 years’ corporate finance experience, including BDO and EY. Spent eight years at Clydesdale Bank, playing major role in the creation and growth of a successful acquisition finance team in NW England. Recent deals: Role is to provide growth capital funding for businesses in Scotland with turnover up to £50m and structured lending for larger corporates. The former includes provision of £4m growth capital to Bertram Nursery Group, while the latter includes participation in the £260m of post-IPO facilities to Edinburgh-based Exova Group plc.
Graham Silcock
Position: Regional director, Scotland Age: 50 Qualifications: BAcc CA Career history: Qualified as a CA with Coopers & Lybrand, Glasgow, in 1987 spending 10 years in audit, corporate finance and corporate recovery functions. Joined Bank of Scotland in 1996, working within acquisition finance role before assuming senior relationship banking responsibilities in 2006. Joined Santander corporate and commercial banking as regional director in 2012. Recent deals: Crieff Hydro, Outreach, Fletcher Shipping, CHAP Group, Bancon Group, AJC Homes, The Furnishing Service, MacLeod Construction, Energy Assets.
Nick Peet
Position: Divisional Real Estate Head covering Scotland Age: 45 Qualifications: BA (Hons), MCIBS Career history: 24 Years in Corporate Banking with BoS/LBG/ NAB and Santander. Recent deals: We will have closed by the end of 2014 in excess of 60 transactions for Scottish based clients, providing new lending of over £275m. From smallest (£72k) to large (a series of deals in excess of £30m) our appetite and interest has remained genuine and deliverable.
DECEMBER 2014 CA MAGAZINE