KingsRock Advisors, an independent global advisory firm, continued its growth with a series of new senior hires. This expansion aims to accelerate the growth of the firm’s capital solutions and corporate finance business including M&A, across industries, geographies and capital structures.
The following senior investment bankers who have joined KingsRock recently in the U.S. and EMEA as managing directors, with further expansion planned, as well as additional independent senior advisors in various geographies:
London / New York
- Wilder Fulford, managing director, M&A, corporate finance, healthcare and life sciences. After leaving Deutsche Bank as head of healthcare M&A, he founded The Fulford Group, a healthcare M&A boutique.
- Michael Whealon, managing director, private capital markets and financial sponsors
New York
- Steven Andrews, managing director, private capital advisory, secondaries advisory, private credit solutions
- Henry Goodman, managing director, private credit, asset-based finance, specialty finance
- Kevin J. Huang, director, private capital advisory, alternative assets, M&A, secondaries
- Harsh Jaggi, managing director, institutional capital, private credit, solutions, asset-backed finance (Ex DB)
- Bruce McDermott, managing director, private capital, equity solutions, direct placement, real assets (Ex DB)
- William (Bill) F. Parry, managing director, special situations, debtholder advisory, litigation finance, capital raising
Toronto
- Nick Milani, managing director, business development, origination strategy, marketing and growth systems
Copenhagen / Stockholm
- Erik van Engelen Rasmussen, executive director, capital raising, distribution (Ex DB)
KingsRock also added a number of additional senior advisors to its 125 senior advisors from approximately 50 countries around the world. Many of these advisors comprised the senior leadership of Deutsche Bank and oversaw a wide range of functions, from CEO and six other former management board members, to country heads and divisional heads of M&A, capital markets, and heads of sales, coverage, industry groups, economists, operations, etc.
- Leopoldo Attolico, Milan, Italy, investment banking exec. (Ex DB)
- Herman Bose, Johannesburg, South Africa, board member and executive (Ex DB)
- Rt Hon. Christopher Burnham, Washington D.C., governance, diplomacy, PE (Ex DB)
- Ravneet Gill, Mumbai, India, banking and markets exec, PE (EX DB)
- Jeannette Gorgas, New York, Miami, Board Director, C-suite exec. (Ex DB)
- Alain Moreau, Brussels, Belgium, banking exec. (Ex DB)
- Kevin O’Connell, Washington, D.C., Global Focus, founder space economy rising
- Frank Krings, Luxembourg, Germany, France, banking exec. (Ex DB)
- Silvano Rumantir, Jakarta, Indonesia, banking and markets exec. (Ex DB)
- Anthony Steains, Hong Kong, APAC focus, founder / CEO comprador (ex DB)
- Matteo Vaghi, London, Europe, equity capital (Ex DB)
- Shen Yan, Shanghai, China, banking and markets exec. (Ex DB)
- Heon Yoon, Seoul, South Korea, investment banking exec. (Ex DB)
- Angelo Zhang, Hong Kong, China, investment banking exec. (Ex DB)
This full team’s unique investment banking experience, coupled with its global network of senior advisors, having worked together with us for decades in senior roles across M&A, credit structuring and origination, equity and debt capital markets, private equity, secondaries etc., will support the firm’s international growth and strategy to advise on deals, originate, structure and distribute private capital markets transactions.
“We are excited to welcome our new advisory partners and managing directors to KingsRock as we continue to expand the global reach of our capital solutions business,” Håkan Wohlin, founder and managing partner, Louis Jaffe, co-founder and managing partner, and Venky Vishwanathan, managing partner, jointly said. “Our commitment to strengthening our partnership model will further enhance our ability to serve our credit, corporate and sponsor clients around the world. In the near term, we will share more details about our Asia expansion, and our growing partnerships to support clients worldwide.”
