Claus Peter to join Metzler Corporate Finance as managing director

Claus Peter (52) is joining the management of B. Metzler GmbH, the corporate finance arm of Frankfurt-based Metzler Bank, on April 1, 2009. He joins the present team of two managing directors, Stephan Hellmann and Ralf A. Pampel. “Securing Claus Peter for this post means we are gaining a financing specialist with an excellent reputation, who will greatly increase our advisory expertise in the areas of debt advisory/financial restructuring and strengthen our position in this market,” comments Johannes Reich, the partner responsible for Metzler’s corporate finance business.

During his career Claus Peter has built and expanded the debt advisory and financial structuring operations of well-known players in this market including BHF Bank, Merrill Lynch and Société Générale, where he was a member of the European Executive Committee Leveraged Finance and the Executive Management Team SGCIB in Germany.In April 2008 became managing partner of a German private equity fund where he was responsible for raising funds.

Metzler Corporate Finance operates in the fields of mergers & acquisitions, privatisations, restructuring and consulting on capital market transactions. It concentrates on providing independent advisory services for German and international companies, private equity investors and private and public-sector clients on mergers and the purchase and sale of companies and equity interests. To uphold the independence of its advice, Metzler Corporate Finance does not handle equity trading for its own account. Nor does it participate in syndicates or take stakes in other companies. That means it is able to act exclusively in the interests of its clients.

Contact for press-related questions
Jörg-Matthias Butzlaff
Phone (+ 49 69) 21 04 - 49 75
E-mail MButzlaff@metzler.com

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