Barclays to Create Two New M&A Teams
December 18 2015 - 8:10AM
Dow Jones News
LONDON—Barclays is planning to create two new M&A teams
focusing on cross-border structuring and activism.
Barclays is planning to create two new advisory teams as it
refocuses parts of its mergers and acquisitions business under new
European M&A head Pier Luigi Colizzi.
The U.K. bank is in the process of establishing a new team
focused on cross-border structuring and another on activist
investors, as it looks to take advantage of some of the factors
driving this year's record breaking deals boom.
Barclays currently organizes its European M&A business by
country.
The plans to establish two further specialist teams come after
Barclays appointed Pier Luigi Colizzi to lead its European M&A
business in July. Mr. Colizzi was promoted from head of banking in
Italy to replace Matthew Ponsonby, who took up the role of vice
chairman for banking.
The U.K. and Europe have seen a bout of high profile activism in
2015. New York-based P. Schoenfeld Asset Management forced French
media conglomerate Vivendi to increase a special dividend and
Elliott Management successfully forced change at Alliance Trust, a
126-year-old investment company.
With the establishment of a cross-border team, Barclays hopes to
tap into one of the biggest drivers of the surge in M&A
activity.
Barclays provided financing to three of the biggest deals in the
region in 2015: Brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev's acquisition of the
U.K.'s SABMiller, Royal Dutch Shell's deal to buy BG Group, and
Israel's Teva Pharmaceuticals acquisition of Allergan's generic
drugs business.
"We have noticed a very significant acceleration of the business
in second half of this year. There has been a continuation of the
strong cross border theme, both between Barclays' two home markets
of the U.S. and the U.K., and into and out of Europe," Mr. Colizzi
said in an interview.
During Mr. Collizi's first six months, Barclays has also
expanded its senior European advisory team.
In September the bank hired Axel-Sven Malkomes, previously Socié
té Gé né rale's head of health care and chemicals, as vice chair of
health care banking.
It has also hired Thomas Westin from Bank of America to co-head
its Nordics business, and earlier this month moved Gavriel Lambert
from the U.S. to plug a gap at the top of its consumer and retail
team.
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December 18, 2015 08:55 ET (13:55 GMT)
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