KingsRock Advisors, an independent global advisory firm, added several new senior hires and senior advisors. This expansion aims to accelerate the growth of KingsRock’s capital solutions and corporate finance business, across industries, geographies and capital structures.
Venky Vishwanathan is the firm’s new managing partner, based in London and Mumbai. Vishwanathan is also a long time Deutsche Bank alumni who was head of Deutsche Bank Asia-Pacific Capital Markets & Treasury Solutions, and co-head of Asia Corporate Finance. Most recently, he was the founding CEO of the investment banking and capital markets business for the InCred Group in India, and is currently founder and CEO of InCred Insight, an India/UK-based technology advisory platform. He was previously also head of financial institutions debt capital markets at DB in Europe.
The following senior investment bankers have joined KingsRock recently in the U.S. and EMEA as managing directors, with further expansion planned:
- Gil Ottensoser, New York: Ottensoser, also a Deutsche Bank alumni, has been engaged in the capital markets and specifically the SPAC asset class for over 25 years. He ran the global sales and distribution efforts within Deutsche Bank’s equity division. In that capacity, Ottensoser, has deep experience in sourcing, capital raising and execution in all dynamics around the product.
- Philipp von Girsewald, New York: von Girsewald is a distinguished financial strategist with over 25 years of experience, renowned for his profound expertise in M&A, FinTech and banking. He was head of the Deutsche Bank Group’s own corporate M&A department for a decade, during which he executed 100s of M&A transactions across a variety of sectors and on all continents. He managed portfolios in venture capital and private equity and founded a thriving U.S. business of the European FinTech unicorn Raisin. Apart from leading the M&A activities at KingsRock, he is part of the SPAC management team.
- Quentin Nason, London and Miami: Nason is a senior financial services executive and trusted advisor with over 30 years of leadership across global markets and equity capital markets. He has held senior roles at UBS and Deutsche Bank in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and London, advising top global asset managers on complex financings, capital raisings and cross-border M&A. He was a senior managing director in the Deutsche Bank Equity Capital Markets department for about a decade. He most recently served as a senior executive at Tetragon Financial Group, a $40 billion alternative asset manager listed on the London Stock Exchange.
KingsRock also added a number of additional senior advisors to its 120 senior advisors from approximately 50 countries around the world. Many of these advisors comprised the most 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 and so forth.
