Oppenheimer Europe, a unit of Oppenheimer Holdings (NYSE:OPY), is
pleased to announce that Xavier Moreels and Nigel Daly have joined the
firm to establish a European Technology and Telecoms Investment Banking
franchise. Together they bring over 35 years of relevant sector
experience.
“With their network of relationships and long track record of
successfully advising clients across the Technology and
Telecommunications landscape, Xavier and Nigel bring an unparalleled
level of expertise to our Firm, having advised both large public
companies on the buy side and many smaller high growth companies on
their sale to strategic and financial buyers,” commented Max Lami, CEO
Oppenheimer Europe Ltd.
“A first class European Technology and Telecom banking vertical
complements our strong global telecom and tech franchise, allowing
Oppenheimer to offer comprehensive solutions to their client base,”
added Marc Thompson, Head of Technology Investment Banking and Co-Head
of Investment Banking at Oppenheimer.
Xavier Moreels joined as Managing Director, European Head of
Technology and Telecoms, Investment Banking. Xavier started his banking
career at Deutsche Bank in 1996 and joined the London based TMT
Investment Banking team of ING Barings in 1999. Most recently at ING he
acted as Global TMT Sector Head, was Chairman of the ING Technology
Advisory Board and Chairman of the Global Corporate Finance Valuation
Committee. During his career at ING, he also served as Head of Corporate
Clients for Continental Western Europe. He has developed a unique set of
corporate clients globally, including acting for Telenor, KPN, Belgacom,
TomTom, Logica, Polkomtel, Tieto, UNIT4, Hexagon, Exact, Apax and CVC.
Xavier will report to Max Lami, CEO of Oppenheimer Europe and Marc
Thompson and Bruce McCarthy, Global Co-Heads of Investment Banking.
Nigel Daly joined as Executive Director, Technology and Telecoms,
Investment Banking. Nigel graduated in Law at Oxford and he qualified as
a solicitor in 1987 and worked in London for Slaughter and May until
1995. He then joined BNP Paribas where for 5 years he worked in
corporate finance and equity capital markets. He joined ING Barings in
2000, where he served as the Director in charge of the TMT transaction
team. Nigel joined Piper Jaffray in 2006 as a Director in their European
technology investment banking team, leaving to set up his own advisory
boutique in 2009. Nigel brings over 25 years of legal, equity capital
market and investment banking experience in TMT. Nigel will report to
Xavier.
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. (Oppenheimer), a principal subsidiary of
Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. (OPY on the New York Stock Exchange), provides
a full range of wealth management, securities brokerage and investment
banking services to high-net-worth individuals, families, corporate
executives, local governments, businesses and institutions. For more
information about Oppenheimer, please visit our website at www.opco.com.
Certain statements in this release may constitute “forward-looking
statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve a number of risks,
uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially, as discussed in the Company’s filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
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