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Edmond De Rothschild Group Of Private Merchant Bankers Create Standalone Firm

Senior bankers, who had created a merchant banking business at the European wealth management and investment house, have now launched this operation as a separate company.
Bankers who previously set up and managed the Private Merchant
Banking LLP business at Edmond de
Rothschild have re-launched PMB Capital as a fully
independent company.
PMB Capital focuses entirely on advising business owners on
topics such as mergers, acquisitions and raising capital.
PMB also structures direct investments and specialty
opportunities in alternatives, and makes selective balance sheet
investments alongside its clients.
The leadership team comprises the following persons:
Richard Briance; former chief executive, Edmond de Rothschild,
London; previously CEO and latterly deputy chairman, Hawkpoint
Partners; vice chairman, UBS; managing director, Credit Suisse
First Boston.
Christoph Ladanyi; former founding partner of PMB LLP, Edmond de
Rothschild; head of private wealth for Europe, Lehman Brothers;
managing director, investment banking, Goldman Sachs.
Konstantin Mettenheimer; former chairman, Edmond de Rothschild
Germany and before that global chairman of Freshfields Bruckhaus
Deringer.
Henrik Schliemann; former founding partner of PMB LLP, Edmond de
Rothschild; managing director and head of international,
Hawkpoint Partners; managing director, investment banking,
Merrill Lynch.
“PMB Capital has carved out the merchant banking business and
transaction pipeline from Edmond de Rothschild in both the UK and
Germany. This has been effected with the full agreement and
understanding of Edmond de Rothschild with whom PMB continues to
collaborate on a number of pre-existing mandates. In addition,
PMB has both completed a number of transactions and been retained
on several new assignments since its establishment in September,”
PMB Capital said in a statement today.
The firm said its first successfully closed transactions include
the $90 million ($97.8 million) pre-IPO equity private placement
on behalf of the Swiss biotech firm ADC Therapeutics Sarl.
Investors are leading biotech funds combined with large
single family ofices. Four further transactions are expected to
close by the end of Q1 2016, it said.
Among new assignments, PMB has been retained by C5 Capital, the
European cybersecurity investment company, to raise further funds
from European family investors to supplement its existing
capital. PMB is also advising Tantalum Corporation, the UK
connected car software company, controlled by Edi Truell, on a
transaction to facilitate the global deployment of its
technology.
In another area, PMB Capital is advising Cranemere, the
industrial holding company formed in 2012 by Vincent Mai, former
chairman of AEA Investors. Cranemere invests for the long term in
predominantly US and German mid-market companies. PMB is
introducing Cranemere to like-minded European family investors
for them to join the existing group of selected
international shareholders. Separately, PMB will be assisting The
Fine Art Fund Group with two further alternative investment
schemes.