Macquarie Bank continues to grow its corporate finance team

02 April 2003

LONDON -  Macquarie Bank is pleased to announce the addition of two new senior executives to its London-based corporate finance team.

Richard Tolkien joins Macquarie as an Executive Director, with effect from 31 March. He will focus on growing Macquarie’s mergers and acquisitions business in the United Kingdom and Europe. Richard joins Macquarie from HSBC, where he was co-head of Corporate Finance for the past five years. Prior to that he spent 15 years at Morgan Grenfell working across a variety of industry sectors. 

David Trafford joins Macquarie as a Division Director, with effect from 31 March. David will focus on the natural resources sector. David joins Macquarie from BNP Paribas, where he was Head of Mining, Corporate Finance for six years. Prior to that he worked for Kleinwort Benson and Outokumpu. 

“We are delighted to have Richard and David joining our team, as we continue to grow our European advisory business,” said Andrew Hunter, Executive Director and head of Infrastructure Advisory for Macquarie. “Macquarie has traditionally sought to take advantage of market downturns to grow our business, and we see similar opportunities in the current environment.”

Notes to Editors:
Macquarie Bank provides advisory services and debt and equity underwriting to corporate and government clients. Advisory services include project financing, private finance initiatives (PFI), public private partnerships (PPP), takeovers, mergers & acquisitions, corporate restructuring and other corporate strategic and financial advice. Macquarie was ranked 2nd in the Global Top 10 for advisory in 2002, in the Thomson Financial/Project Finance league tables.

The Macquarie Bank Group provides specialist investment, advisory and financial services in select markets around the world, with 4700 people in 18 countries. The Group comprises Macquarie Bank, Australia’s leading investment bank, and its worldwide affiliated entities. Macquarie has 200 staff based in London, with additional offices in Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Munich and Vienna.

For further information, please contact:

Alison Jefferis
Corporate Communications
Macquarie Bank
Tel: +44 (0)20 7065 2335
Mob: (0)79 1938 2958

Andrew Waterworth
Financial Dynamics
Tel: +44 (0)20 7269 7127
Mob: (0) 7771 740484