Wilfried Schmidt

European Chairman
Royaume Uni, France, Espagne, Allemagne

téléphone: +44 (0) 20 7856 0902
wilfried.schmidt@dcadvisorypartners.com

Wilfried Schmidt was appointed Chairman of Daiwa Corporate Advisory Partners, the holding company of DC Advisory Partners, in 2010. He has been Vice Chairman of Daiwa Capital Markets Europe since 2006.

Wilfried joined Daiwa Securities Co Ltd in Tokyo in 1991. His career with the group has included various assignments in the international underwriting division and the corporate finance and investment banking divisions in Tokyo, London and Frankfurt. He was previously President of Daiwa Germany GmbH. He serves as a member of the EUREX Exchange Council.

Wilfried began his career as a diplomat, including three assignments in Tokyo. He studied at Moscow State University for International Relations and at Harvard Business School. His hobbies include classical music, literature, fine arts and boating.

Paul Mullins

European Chief Executive
Royaume Uni, France, Espagne, Allemagne

téléphone: +44 (0) 20 7856 9435
paul.mullins@dcadvisorypartners.com

Paul joined DC Advisory Partners in January 2011 as European Chief Executive.

Prior to joining DC Advisory, Paul spent six years at Bank of America where he initially established and built the European M&A team. He then took over the pan-European Global Industries & Natural Resources sector team.

Paul’s career in banking has spanned 30 years at Schroders, Citigroup and BofA both in Europe and the US. He has extensive experience in the Industrials, Automotive and Utilities sectors, advising both regulated and public companies. He has advised on both UK and cross-border M&A.

Paul is currently a Commissioner for The Commission on Ownership as well as a member of the Industrial Development Advisory Board. He graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Jurisprudence.

León Benelbas

Chairman
Espagne

téléphone: +34 91 524 11 24
leon.benelbas@dcadvisorypartners.com

León Benelbas fue uno de los socios fundadores de Atlas Capital Investment Bankers, hoy DC Advisory Partners en España, de la que es actualmente Presidente.

Es Doctor en Ciencias Económicas por la Universidad de Barcelona y Lecturer en la Universidad de California-Berkeley (EEUU), así como profesor titular de Economía Aplicada de la Universidad de Barcelona y de la UNED.

A lo largo de su carrera profesional, León Benelbas ha ocupado distintos puestos de responsabilidad como Director de Desarrollo Corporativo de Tabacalera, S.A., Presidente de La Lactaria Española, S.A. (Grupo Tabacalera), Presidente de Seguros Amaya (Grupo Berner Vaudoise), Consejero Delegado de Ron Investments (Marc Rich and Co. Holding AG), Director General de Seguros (Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda) o Subdirector General de Planificación Económica (Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda). En su etapa final antes de promover el proyecto Atlas Capital fue Socio-Director de la División de Corporate Finance & Investment Banking de PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Richard Madden

Chief Executive
Royaume Uni

téléphone: +44 (0) 20 7856 0901
richard.madden@dcadvisorypartners.com

Richard was appointed Chief Executive of DC Advisory Partners (formerly Close Brothers Corporate Finance) in the UK in November 2009.

Richard continues to be responsible for the DC Advisory Partners media and technology practices across Europe. He has more than twenty years experience advising companies in both sectors. His experience covers debt and equity fundraising and M&A across Europe and in the United States.

Richard’s clients have ranged from major corporations such as News Corporation, Daily Mail and General Trust and Dun and Bradstreet to smaller entrepreneurial companies such as Clarion, Boosey & Hawkes, Superscape and Kobalt.

Prior to DC Advisory Partners, Richard was a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns and a Managing Director at ING Barings. He joined ING Barings from Arthur Andersen.

Richard is a Chartered Accountant and a Classics graduate from Jesus College, Cambridge.

Ernst von Freyberg

Chief Executive
Allemagne

téléphone: +49 (0)69 97 20 04 0
Ernst.Freyberg@dcadvisorypartners.com

Ernst von Freyberg worked for Three Cities Research, Inc., an investment company forming part of the Bemberg Group, in New York and London from 1988 to 1991, before co-founding DC Advisory Partners. He is a member of various supervisory boards including Deutsche Malteser gGmbH, Flossbach von Storch AG,
Manpower GmbH and Magirus AG. Mr von Freyberg has qualified as a lawyer.

Raúl J. Julián

Chief Executive
Espagne

téléphone: +34 91 524 11 24
raulj.julian@dcadvisorypartners.com

Raúl J. Julián is one of the founding partners of Atlas Capital Investment Bankers, the predecessor in Spain of DC Advisory Partners and since 2009 he is Managing Director for Spain and member of the Board of Directors. He is also responsible of the Financial Services sector in Spain.

He has developed his career in Corporate Finance in Spain and the U.K., firstly at PricewaterhouseCoopers and then at Atlas Capital Close Brothers, having advised on numerous M&A and Debt Advisory (restructuring and project finance) transactions. Raúl has advised insurance groups (Mapfre), banks and savings banks (Banco Pastor, Caja Madrid, Caixa Galicia or Cajasol), private equity groups (3i, Vista Capital or Permira) as well as Public Organisms (he advised the Regional Government of Madrid in the first shadow toll roads program in Spain).

PhD in Business Administration from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Business Administration graduate form Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, he is also Qualified Accountant in Spain (member of the Registro Oficial de Auditores de Cuentas) and teaches finance programs at Instituto de Empresa business school.

Gwénaël de Sagazan

Chief Executive
France

téléphone: +33 (0) 1 42 12 49 67
gwenael.desagazan@dcadvisorypartners.com

Avant de rejoindre DC Advisory Partners (anciennement Close Brothers SAS), Gwénaël de Sagazan a travaillé 14 ans au sein de la division Corporate Banking de HSBC France, d’abord en tant que Directeur puis en tant que Managing Director. A ce titre, il est intervenu sur de nombreuses transactions pour le compte d’investisseurs financiers, ainsi que dans les secteurs des transports et de la distribution spécialisée.

Gwénaël de Sagazan a débuté sa carrière au sein du Groupe Total, puis a rejoint la banque d’affaires Morgan Grenfell. Gwénaël a également une expérience du capital-investissement puisqu’il a occupé le poste de directeur de l’investissement au sein des filiales financières du groupe Elf Aquitaine (1992 – 1993).

Gwénaël de Sagazan est diplômé d’HEC.

Jonathan Trower

Associé Gérant
Royaume Uni

téléphone: +44 (0) 20 7856 0912
jonathan.trower@dcadvisorypartners.com

Jonathan joined DC Advisory Partners (formerly Close Brothers Corporate Finance) in 1998 to set up the European Restructuring and Debt Advisory Group.

He was previously a Director of Hill Samuel and subsequently of Hambros.

Jonathan has had extensive experience of the debt markets over his banking career, having worked in corporate banking, loan syndication, acquisition finance and property finance. He ran a large team of workout bankers in the 1990-92 recession.

Since joining DC Advisory Partners Jonathan has advised on a large number of both restructuring and debt advisory transactions.

Clients that he has advised include Enterprise Inns plc, LogicaCMG, Virgin Money, Luxfer, Gala and TM Group Holdings. Private equity houses that he has worked for include Legal & General Ventures, Electra Partners Europe Ltd, Montagu Private Equity, Sun European Partners, Cinven and Candover.

After graduating from Cambridge University and three years as an army officer, Jonathan began his banking career in 1983.