Pall Mall Capital Announces That Emerging Markets and M&A Specialist Alex Carre de Malberg has Joined the Firm

LONDON, November 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Pall Mall Capital, the cross border corporate finance advisory firm is pleased to announce that the experienced investment banker Alex Carre de Malberg has joined the firm as a Senior Advisor.

Alex has 18 years of investment banking experience, including spending 1998-2009 with Rothschild Group in Paris and then in Abu Dhabi. Over the last decade Alex has completed over 50 mergers and acquisitions, fund raisings and valuation assignments, half of these have involved emerging market companies.

Alex started his career with Lazards in New York, later moving on to Peregrine in Hong Kong and then to Equinox Capital in Singapore. He has also held the position of head of investment banking at the Abu Dhabi investment company Invest AD, notably building and managing the only investment banking team located within a quasi sovereign wealth fund entity. Alex has been based in Abu Dhabi since 2006, where he also acts as a Senior Advisor on Middle East transactions to the regional investment and advisory company, The National Investor.

John Cutts, CEO and Founder of Pall Mall Capital commenting on the appointment of Alex Carre de Malberg said:

"We are very excited about Alex joining the team at Pall Mall Capital. His track record of successful M&A in overseas and emerging markets will be of great use for our global service offering and further re-enforce our position as specialists in international cross border corporate finance."

Notes to Editors

Pall Mall Capital is an independent corporate finance company specializing in delivering corporate finance solutions for complex international transactions. Headquartered in London, the firm has offices in France, Germany, USA and South Africa. The firm has established itself as a leading specialist in advising European mid market companies on cross border merger and acquisition transactions.

Pall Mall Capital's broad ranging advisory services include all aspects of M&A, public and private placings as well as corporate structuring and restructuring situations. Additionally Pall Mall Capital offers services to source finance from all arenas of the capital structure, including senior debt to subordinated products such as mezzanine finance through to equity finance.

Pall Mall Capital has advised on a wide range of transaction types, with values from EUR50m to EUR500m, and has completed in excess of 70 transactions since 2000, the majority of which were cross-border.

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http://www.pallmallcapital.com

SOURCE Pall Mall Capital