The crypto sector&nbsp;is&nbsp;currently rebuilding trust after the high-profile collapse of US exchange FTX last year and there is increased scrutiny of the industry by regulators around the world. The list is a mix of senior women working at exchanges, investment firms,&nbsp;in regulatory roles, at trade associations and other parts of the institutional sector. As well as their day-to-day jobs, many are involved in efforts to promote digital assets and shape policy through conferences, regulatory committees and industry groups.

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Teana Baker-Taylor is a well-known voice in the industry. Her day-to-day job is vice-president of policy and regulatory strategy UK &amp; EU at Circle, the issuer of USD coin and euro coin. She is also a&nbsp;non-executive director at trade association CryptoUK, a board member of non-profit education and networking organisation Crypto Connect and a steering committee member of Global Blockchain Convergence, which brings people together to collaborate on blockchain and digital assets. She has also held leadership roles at the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Crypto.com and Binance. Baker-Taylor is a prominent pro-industry lobbyist who has promoted potential and existing use cases of stablecoins to the Treasury Committee, the Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group, the European Commission and multiple US congressional committees.

Vice-president of policy and regulatory strategy UK & EU

Harriett Baldwin is the Conservative MP for West Worcestershire and chair of the Treasury Committee, which recently called on the government to regulate crypto in the same way it does the gambling industry. She said in May that bitcoin and ether have “no intrinsic value, huge price volatility and no discernible social good”. This put her at odds with both City minister Andrew Griffith and the Treasury. The Treasury Committee she leads is one of the most influential parliamentary committees and it is currently assessing the potential risks and opportunities of digital assets, including whether they need greater regulation. Baldwin has held several junior ministerial roles since becoming an MP in 2010, including in the Ministry of Defence and the Department for International Development. Baldwin was a JPMorgan banker for two decades and became head of currency management at its London office in 1998.

Chair

Diana Biggs joined the crypto industry in 2015 as a director at digital assets exchange Uphold. She then moved to Anthemis Group, where she focused on gender lens finance and blockchain technologies, and then to HSBC, where she was latterly global head of innovation for private banking. She spent two years at Valour, first as CEO of the crypto exchange traded product business from launch and then as group chief strategy officer following its acquisition. Last&nbsp;October, Biggs joined crypto venture capital fund 1kx as a partner. The fund, which is backed by Alan Howard and has a portfolio of more than 80 crypto and Web3 companies, is looking to Biggs to help build partnerships with institutions to grow its portfolio projects. Biggs is an associate fellow with Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where she guest lectures on digital assets&nbsp;and blockchain technology, and a board member of HIVE Switzerland.

Partner

After a 14-year career at interdealer broker ICAP — now TP ICAP — Vicky Crowley took the plunge into crypto in 2019 with a move to startup Founders Bank. The next year, she took the chief operating officer role at one of crypto’s biggest liquidity providers, B2C2. There she also juggled the role of regional lead in Europe until late 2022, when new European chief executive Thomas Restout arrived. Crowley has hired executives from the likes of UBS, Pemberton Asset Management, Morgan Stanley, HSBC and the Bank of England, and has spearheaded a focus on risk management and regulatory compliance — both key touchpoints in the industry after the collapse of FTX. She also represents B2C2 at trade body CryptoUK and is a founding advisory board member of the Crypto and Digital Assets All‑Party Parliamentary Group, a forum for MPs and industry to discuss the sector. Crowley started her career in Ireland as a software analyst, moving&nbsp;to&nbsp;Denmark in 2004 to work for IBM.

Chief operating officer

Meltem Demirors entered the crypto industry relatively early by institutional standards, joining in 2015, as a founding member and vice-president of Digital Currency Group, the conglomerate that owns Grayscale Investments, Genesis and media outlet CoinDesk. In&nbsp;2018, she moved to CoinShares, where she is chief strategy officer. The firm has £2.1bn assets under management, making it Europe’s biggest crypto fund manager. As&nbsp;well as overseeing the firm’s corporate strategy, Demirors manages its proprietary investments portfolio. Over the past eight years, she has invested in more than 250 companies in the digital asset ecosystem via DCG and CoinShares, and is an active angel investor. She teaches at Oxford University as director of the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme at the Saïd Business School and is co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Cryptocurrency Council. Before getting into crypto, Demirors worked at ExxonMobil. In her spare time, she can be found reading science fiction, playing outdoor sports and “scheming with&nbsp;her friends on the internet”, she says.

Chief strategy officer

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Alisa DiCaprio was working in digitisation and trade finance at the Asian Development Bank, first in Manilla then in Tokyo, when she became interested in the potential uses of blockchain. “I found myself explaining what blockchain was to ministries of finance and central banks across the region,” she says. Initially, she viewed the technology as a way to solve problems in her current work. But DiCaprio is now chief economist at R3, the blockchain firm founded by chief executive David Rutter in 2015. She oversees research and market intelligence, advising on developments across the sector as well as engaging with central banks and regulators. She acknowledges that the digital assets industry is in a difficult spot, following the collapses of crypto exchange FTX and other market giants in the past year, but says the issues are not a failure of the underlying technology. Rather, they are due to factors such as high costs and low interoperability across the sector — problems R3’s products seek to solve. DiCaprio, who holds a PhD in international development from MIT and a master’s in international economics from Johns Hopkins University, is still bullish about the future prospects of the sector at large. “When I started working at R3, all of my meetings were trying to convince people they should look at blockchain. Now, everybody knows what it is and we are actually getting down to changing the pipes of finance,” she says.

Chief economist

Since leaving a job at social media giant Meta&nbsp;in 2020, Lauren Ingram has built several community organisations for the technology industries. The most recent of these was Women of Web3, which helps women to make the leap into digital assets and blockchain through job opportunities, learning resources and connections. Since founding the group in 2022 while she was on maternity leave, Ingram has spoken at more than 40 sector events and interviewed industry leaders including metaverse consultant Cathy Hackl and Adidas Web3 vice-president Erika Wykes-Sneyd for her podcast. At&nbsp;Meta, Ingram was responsible for #SheMeansBusiness, its multimillion-dollar programme for female entrepreneurs. She is&nbsp;a mentor at SheSays, which aims to advance women in the digital sector, and a member of&nbsp;the&nbsp;DevelopHer community for women in tech.&nbsp;

Founder

Before she joined industry association Global Digital Finance in 2019, Emma Joyce had a 13‑year career in events planning roles at traditional financial institutions, including Fidelity Worldwide Investment, PwC and Barclays. After&nbsp;Barclays, she joined Citigroup in 2011, later becoming vice-president of transaction services. As a vice-president in its global event marketing department, she oversaw two teams in&nbsp;Emea. She became a freelance producer in 2018, specialising in financial and political conferences and seminars. She initially joined Global Digital Finance as head of community and membership, before ascending in 2021 to executive director and a member of the board. While at&nbsp;GDF, she has helped turn the trade body into a global crypto advocacy giant. The organisation now has nearly 500 institutional members across 95 jurisdictions, following its merger with the Global Blockchain Business Council in May last year. Soon after, she became chief executive of the new organisation, GBBC Digital Finance. “We are dedicated to trying to create best practice for our members as well as working with policymakers and regulators to get regulatory clarity for the industry,” she tells Financial News. Joyce regularly participates in global industry conferences and events, often speaking on policy and regulatory issues as well as exploring blockchain for social impact.

Chief executive

Elke Karskens oversees the London operations of&nbsp;crypto exchange Coinbase, a role she took on in&nbsp;November. Before joining the company as senior&nbsp;marketing director in January 2022 she spent 11 years at social media giant Meta in&nbsp;the US and UK. There, she ran&nbsp;the tech giant’s international consumer marketing division and partnerships for its software-as-a-service business. She also previously led product&nbsp;marketing at Skype. Karskens has taken on&nbsp;her current role at a pivotal&nbsp;moment for Coinbase, as its chief executive Brian Armstrong considers whether the&nbsp;company should leave the&nbsp;US amid a regulatory crackdown. With the UK&nbsp;Treasury in the process of drawing up its own,&nbsp;likely more crypto-friendly set of&nbsp;regulations,&nbsp;the country could become a&nbsp;key&nbsp;part&nbsp;of any reorganisation of the world’s biggest crypto exchange, putting Karskens firmly&nbsp;in the driver’s seat.

UK country director

Simone Maini joined Elliptic as chief operating officer in 2016, before taking on the top job in 2020. In that time, she has helped turn Elliptic into one of the best-known blockchain analytics companies on the planet, as well as become a leading voice on financial crime prevention, compliance and regulation in crypto. Maini graduated from the University of&nbsp;Cambridge with a BA in history. She started her career in finance at Deutsche Bank, joining as a graduate in 2004 before working on&nbsp;corporate finance business management. She left in 2012 to become a senior director at Kroll, the&nbsp;corporate investigation and risk consulting firm, working from Washington DC. Maini has openly spoken in the past about imposter syndrome as&nbsp;a&nbsp;senior executive in crypto, having entered the&nbsp;industry without much prior knowledge of the&nbsp;asset class. “I think I still experience [imposter syndrome],” she said in a 2022 interview. “The&nbsp;ability to be open and ask newbie questions allowed&nbsp;me to get up the learning curve quickly.”&nbsp;

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Caroline Malcolm leads on public policy at Chainalysis, one of the biggest blockchain analytics&nbsp;firms in the industry. She founded the OECD’s Global Blockchain Policy Centre in&nbsp;2018 and&nbsp;was&nbsp;its head until 2021, working across fintech, competition policy, data governance and supply chain transparency. In 2019, she established the OECD’s Blockchain&nbsp;Expert Policy Advisory Board, bringing together more than 100 experts from across the world in government,&nbsp;industry, academia and civil society. She also co-led the Financial Stability Board’s work stream on decentralised fintech. In 2020, the World Economic Forum named Malcolm a Young Global Leader and she judged the G20 TechSprint hackathon. When she is not talking about crypto regulation, Malcolm&nbsp;runs, reads biographies, and immerses herself in&nbsp;new cultures and languages.

Global head of public policy

Sarah Pritchard jointly leads the Financial Conduct Authority’s supervision, policy and competition work, and is in charge of its cryptocurrency strategy — putting her in one of the most powerful public policy roles relating to the sector in the country. Pritchard was previously director at the National Economic Crime Centre, part of the National Crime Agency, and before that she was general counsel for the NCA. At the April City Week conference in London, Pritchard described crypto as a “one-time symbol of alternative rebellion [that] has become more widespread” and urged the room of industry insiders to help her regulate the sector “with our minds open to the potential gains and our eyes open to the risks”. An avid gardener and self-proclaimed bookworm, she says she sympathises with people taking an alternative path, such as those moving from finance to the digital assets industry. “You could say that I have embraced my inner alternative geek throughout my life and throughout my career, which has focused on fighting financial crime,” she told conference delegates. Pritchard’s career has involved stints in investigative, operational and legal roles in a range of government departments and in the private sector. In the private sector, she has led global financial crime compliance and&nbsp;reputational risk teams at HSBC, and qualified as a commercial litigator with law firm Dechert.

Executive director for markets

Nicole Sandler recalls that in her early days at Barclays, which she joined in 2013, she was helping her then-boss, who was the bank’s head of regulatory policy, prepare for a round table. “‘All anybody wanted to talk about in the breaks was blockchain,’ he said to me. We agreed I would spend more time focusing on this,” she says. And she hasn’t looked back since then. Now, Sandler is head of digital policy at the bank, leading Barclays’ work on the impact of blockchain, digital assets, central bank digital currencies, artificial intelligence and other technology on the wider financial landscape. She also represents Barclays on the European Commission’s Expert Group on Regulatory Obstacles to Financial Innovation, as well as similar task forces at the Global Financial Markets Association and UK Finance. Before moving in-house, Sandler was a&nbsp;senior associate at US legal giant Jones Day. She says one of the thorniest issues facing digital assets today is achieving regulatory clarity, but adds: “It is important to see how this can be viewed as an opportunity rather than just a challenge.” A qualified yoga instructor and avid swimmer, Sandler says her teenage self “would laugh” if she could see what she does now. “I could barely even get my Nokia mobile to work back then,” she says. But she adds that she has always been interested in&nbsp;policy and finding solutions to problems.

Head of digital policy

Ana Santillan was promoted in March this year to&nbsp;head of Emea financial institutions at Fireblocks, a platform for creating blockchain-based products and managing digital asset operations. She joined the firm in March 2021 and was responsible for setting up its office&nbsp;in Switzerland, of&nbsp;which she&nbsp;is now also co-country head. In&nbsp;2022, her role expanded to leading and managing the sales team in Switzerland and southern Europe. In her new position, Santillan collaborates with banks, asset managers and market&nbsp;infrastructure firms on launching new blockchain-based products. Santillan started her career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs’ private wealth management division in Switzerland. She&nbsp;spent nine years at Morgan Stanley, in its wealth&nbsp;division and as vice-president, fixed income sales and trading. She moved to Zurich in 2011 to&nbsp;build the bank’s Swiss fixed income team, where&nbsp;she grew revenue from zero to $20m through the distribution of fixed income products to&nbsp;institutional investors.&nbsp;

Head of Emea financial institutions and Swiss co-country head

Ophelia Snyder co-founded 21Shares, the crypto-focused exchange traded product issuer, in 2018 with Hany Rashwan. Back then, the digital assets industry was still far from being regulated and crypto ETPs were relatively rare. Now, things are very different, with 21Shares alone having more than 30 of them. The firm also recently reapplied for a spot bitcoin exchange traded fund in the US in partnership with Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest, having previously failed to gain regulatory approval for the product. Snyder is heavily involved in the technical side of&nbsp;the business. She is president of 21Shares’ parent company 21.co, and has oversight of its product, engineering and design channels. She&nbsp;is also involved in human resources, because she&nbsp;wants to&nbsp;boost diversity in the sector and lower the crypto industry’s barriers to entry for under-represented groups. Raised in Italy and the US, she previously held associate roles at investment banks&nbsp;Evercore and UBS in New York.

Co-founder and president

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Ambre Soubiran bought Kaiko in 2016 and with her at the helm, the firm has grown from a small data aggregation startup to one of the most widely used digital markets references for institutions. Today, Kaiko has three business units — data, analytics and indices — and its 160 institutional clients can access data from more than 100 exchanges. Holding a master’s degree in applied mathematics from the Université Paris Dauphine, Soubiran left a decade-long career at HSBC for crypto, predicting that blockchain would upend the banking industry. She now oversees a team of more than 90 globally, with offices in Paris, New York, London and Singapore. In 2022, Kaiko secured partnerships with traditional finance players such as Bloomberg and Deutsche Börse. Its real-time crypto price data feeds are streamed on various terminals. Soubiran&nbsp;led Kaiko’s third funding round in June 2022, raising $53m from investors including Eight&nbsp;Roads, Anthemis and Point9.&nbsp;

Dina White leads the legal function at Standard Chartered-backed institutional crypto exchange Zodia Markets, where she gives advice on strategy, governance and risk issues. Since its launch last summer, Zodia Markets has been steadily growing and has onboarded clients from traditional finance as well as crypto natives. White started her career at Clifford Chance in London in 2004 as a trainee lawyer, before working in its capital markets practice for six years. She worked for BNY Mellon between 2013 and 2020, taking on the role of M&amp;A counsel in 2016, and joined Zodia Markets in 2021 as its general counsel. White is a regular speaker on industry panels including Crafty Counsel, an event for in-house legal professionals. She is also a&nbsp;member of the International Digital Assets Counsel Association, and helped the organisation with its response to the UK Treasury’s consultation&nbsp;on regulating crypto. She is also a&nbsp;founding member of Chief, a private network that&nbsp;connects and supports female leaders.

General counsel

Katharine Wooller’s role at Coincover involves leading the firm’s commercial operation and its client services. Coincover, which provides technology to protect digital assets against hackers and human error, supports 300 firms in the digital asset space with seed phrase recovery (a series of words generated by a&nbsp;crypto wallet that gives the user access to the assets in that wallet) and theft prevention backed by Lloyd’s of London insurance. Cardiff‑based Coincover recently secured funding of $30m, with Foundation Capital as lead investor, and aims to grow from 50 to 100 employees over the course of 2023. Wooller runs Coincover’s lobbying efforts, is part of regulatory working groups with CryptoUK and Innovate Finance and contributes to the Digital Euro Association as an “expert member”. She also provided Coincover’s input on the EU’s Markets in Crypto-assets regulation, which the&nbsp;bloc recently approved. When not at work, she&nbsp;can&nbsp;be found competing her horses, going to the&nbsp;gym and cooking at a local homeless charity.&nbsp;

Business unit head

Jenna Wright joined foreign exchange trading company LMAX in 2009 as a client account manager. The world was in the midst of a global financial crisis at the time, while bitcoin was less than a year old. Few then would have predicted that institutional exchanges such as LMAX would be dealing with digital assets in less than a decade — least of all Wright herself. Wright soon rose to run LMAX’s foreign exchange brokerage, building out teams across the globe and leading the firm’s client management. She eventually took up the mantle of starting LMAX’s digital assets exchange, building the trading venue from the ground up. “We were starting from scratch,” she says. “LMAX Digital is my baby.” Wright now travels the world running LMAX Digital, one of the first institutional-grade crypto exchanges that is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The exchange has continued to expand and Wright made several senior appointments last year, including Bryan Christian as director of US sales and Cassandra Cox as director of institutional sales in Europe. As regulators circle the sector and the industry starts to move past last year’s “crypto winter”, the mother of two remains realistic about the future of digital assets. “Do I fully understand crypto now? Absolutely not,” she says. “I don’t think any of us do. And I think that’s what keeps us all engaged.”

Managing director

Sendi Young joined crypto payments firm Ripple in&nbsp;2021, having previously spent 15 years in fintech and payments. She has built Ripple’s headcount in Europe by about 75% in the past 18 months, and&nbsp;following the recent opening of an office in Dublin, she now oversees around 100 employees in Ireland, London and Reykjavik. Raised in Turkey and now a&nbsp;British national, Young also brings experience from HSBC, as&nbsp;well as global financial and operational advisory firm AlixPartners. Prior to joining Ripple, Young was head of digital and fintech at Mastercard. Earlier in her career, she spent time working in the&nbsp;US and Finland in various consulting roles for&nbsp;firms including Capgemini. Young has identified “crypto bro” culture as an ongoing issue for the sector and is an advocate for greater diversity. She is a board member at Tranglo Europe, a cross-border payments specialist, as well&nbsp;as an advisory board member at The Payments Association — Young is also responsible for Ripple becoming a member of the association.

Europe managing director

Twenty Most Influential Women in Crypto 2023

The list also includes leaders of the UK’s elite Magic Circle firms and lawyers who head&nbsp;regional practices for&nbsp;large US firms. There are&nbsp;11 new entrants in this year’s list, including some who have stepped into new roles in the past year. Some big US firms that have been building a&nbsp;presence in London are also represented for the first time.

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Charles Adams took over as Clifford Chance’s first global managing partner based outside the UK on 1 May 2022. Milan-based Adams had been the firm’s head of Europe since 2018, before which he led its Italian arm. Since taking up his new post, Adams has revamped the firm’s leadership, creating a new role focused on&nbsp;enhancing client experience and&nbsp;another focused on business transformation. Other major changes for the firm under Adams include signing a lease for a new London headquarters in the City — the firm is set to leave its current Canary Wharf base in 2028. Clifford Chance has continued to expand in the US this year, with recent hires including a pair of antitrust partners from Baker Botts in Washington DC and an insurance partner from Mayer Brown in New York. When he’s not working, Adams is a keen cook and particularly&nbsp;enjoys baking for family and friends. Previous entry: 2022

Global managing partner

Penny Angell has been at Hogan Lovells for nearly 30 years. A specialist in acquisition and leveraged finance, she led its global banking practice before taking up her current role at the firm of UK managing partner in 2021. Outside the firm, she is joint vice-chair of the financial law committee of the City of London Law Society. Earlier this year, Angell helped oversee the launch of a solicitor apprenticeship scheme at Hogan Lovells in collaboration with the&nbsp;organisation. Angell says the scheme is intended to “provide new opportunities for aspiring solicitors and help us to discover the next generation of legal talent”. Hogan Lovells also signed a lease in February for a new London headquarters on Holborn Viaduct, which it will move into in 2026. Outside work, Angell’s hobbies include cooking, skiing and fantasy football. Previous entry: 2022

UK managing partner

A well-known debt capital markets and Islamic finance lawyer, Farmida Bi has a leadership role at Norton Rose Fulbright as chair of Europe, the&nbsp;Middle East and Asia — a position she has held since 2018. With three decades of&nbsp;experience, she has worked on&nbsp;some high-profile deals during her career, including advising Pakistan’s Ministry of Finance on bond issuances. She also served a one-year term as global chair of&nbsp;Norton Rose Fulbright in 2022. Born in Pakistan and raised in the UK, she has previously spoken to Financial News about the racism she experienced growing up and she is passionate about diversity and inclusion. Last year, she led Norton Rose Fulbright’s pledge, alongside other law firms, to&nbsp;recognise UK legal apprenticeships as a pathway into law. She is chair of trustees for the Barbican Centre Trust and for the Patchwork Foundation, which promotes engagement in politics and civil&nbsp;society for disadvantaged young people.&nbsp; Previous entries: 2021-22

Chair, Europe, Middle East and Asia

NEW ENTRY - Leading tax adviser Arun Birla was elected second managing partner of Paul Hastings in October 2022. In his new firmwide leadership role, he is responsible for directing growth, management and strategy, and is tasked with taking the 1,000-lawyer, 21-office business into the top three in several key practices globally — and ultimately into the top 10 of international law firms. Birla joined Paul Hastings from Freshfields in 2008. He co‑founded the London Diversity Network in 2009 and co-created global work-life balance initiative PH Balanced in 2017. He was chair of Paul Hastings’ London office from 2018 to October 2022, during which time he oversaw an increase in revenue of 189% and more than doubled the office’s headcount to more than 40 partners and 150 fee-earners. Birla has also been vice-chair of the company’s global tax practice. A highly respected tax lawyer, Birla continues to act for key clients including Abry Partners, Francisco Partners, PineBridge Benson Elliot and CVC Credit Partners. Since 2021, he has served as one of The Law Society’s social mobility ambassadors, which has given him an industry-wide platform to promote diversity in the profession. He is also the only non-US member of the firm’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Council, working to review performance&nbsp;against&nbsp;diversity goals.

Second managing partner

NEW ENTRY - Philip Boeckman is the managing partner of New York law firm Cravath Swaine &amp; Moore’s London office. The US-qualified lawyer joined Cravath’s headquarters in 1991 and was promoted to partner in 1998. He relocated to the firm’s London office in 2000. Boeckman, who is also co-head of the Emea capital markets practice, has a long and successful track record advising clients on initial public offerings, leveraged financings and other equity offerings. Recent deals for him include advising long-time client the European Investment Bank on its $4bn sustainability awareness bond issuance and three registered notes offerings with an aggregate value of $11bn. He also acted as US counsel for HDFC Bank on its $40bn merger with its original founder, HDFC, which was one of India’s largest-ever M&amp;A deals. Other clients of the firm that he has represented include AXA, Bacardi, NH Hotel Group and Unilever. Cravath’s London office made a rare double-hire this year to establish its first English law practice, bringing on board Shearman &amp; Sterling finance partners Philip Stopford and Korey Fevzi. Boeckman sits on the board of trustees of Westminster College and is the senior fellow of the National Churchill Museum, both of which are located in the US. He also serves as vice-chair of the board of directors of the International Churchill Society.

Managing partner, London office, and co-head of the capital markets practice, Emea

Thierry Bosly wears a few hats at White &amp; Case, where he is global co-head of private equity and&nbsp;head of the firm’s Belgium and Luxembourg transactional practices. His major clients include private equity firms such as IK Partners, EQT and Cobepa, as&nbsp;well as banks including Goldman Sachs, Degroof Petercam and Deutsche Bank. Last year, he advised Cobepa on&nbsp;its €1.5bn sale of JF Hillebrand to Deutsche Post DHL Group. He also raised more than €118,000 for the Demoucelle Parkinson Charity by cycling 1,250km from Brussels to Gordes in Provence, France. Nearly 350 White &amp;&nbsp;Case lawyers, staff and clients joined him during his ride, which was broken up into 18 stages. Previous entry: 2022

Global co-head of private equity

NEW ENTRY - Philip Bowden is global co-head of Magic Circle firm Allen &amp; Overy’s banking practice — a role he has held since 2016. Bowden joined the firm in 1999 as an associate, having previously worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He was promoted to partner in 2002. The former head of leveraged finance, he remains a partner in its leveraged finance team in London, where he advises bankers and borrowers on leveraged finance, structured finance, private credit and acquisition financings. Recent deals for Bowden include advising the lead arrangers in a refinancing transaction for telecoms company Altice France that consisted of an extension on its nearly $6bn in term loans and its €1bn credit facility, as well as the raise of a new €150m term loan. He also advised on a €400m high-yield bond issuance by real estate services company Emeria.&nbsp;

Co-head of the global banking practice

The lead for Reed Smith’s business in Europe and&nbsp;the Middle East, structured finance specialist Tamara Box also sits on its governing executive committee. Box is helping to move the firm’s London office to new premises near Spitalfields Market, which is&nbsp;scheduled to take place next year. She has also made recent hires in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The former chair of Reed Smith’s financial industry group, Box advises dealers, arrangers, issuers and trustees in relation to a wide range of debt instruments. Dual‑qualified in England and New York, she also acts for clients in relation to securitisations, derivatives and debt restructurings. Box is a notable advocate for diversity in the legal profession and the wider finance sector. She&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;founder member of the 30% Club, which&nbsp;aims&nbsp;to improve the representation of&nbsp;women on&nbsp;boards across industries. Previous entry: 2022

Managing partner, Europe & Middle East

NEW ENTRY - &nbsp;London-based capital markets lawyer Adrian Cartwright became Clifford Chance’s senior partner on 1 January. He also leads the firm’s European equity capital markets group and has&nbsp;been a partner since 2002. He advised on the £4.5bn London float of digital retailer The Hut Group in 2020 — at the time the&nbsp;biggest listing in the UK in three years, although its share price fell afterwards — and advised the&nbsp;bankers on electric vehicle charging company Pod Point’s 2021 London listing. Cartwright says that as senior partner, one of his key aims is fostering “collegiality” within the firm’s partnership. “Our firm is at its strongest when global senior leaders work together to support the&nbsp;whole partnership to be ambitious and&nbsp;successful in delivering for our clients,” he&nbsp;says. Cartwright’s hobbies include mountain biking, cycling and snowboarding — and, when he&nbsp;is feeling less active,&nbsp;the theatre.

Senior partner

Tax partner Alex Chadwick has led Baker McKenzie’s Emea business since 2021. He was previously managing partner of the London office for five years and before that, he led its UK tax team. Chadwick, who speaks English and French, focuses on&nbsp;international tax planning in his practice, particularly the tax aspects of M&amp;A, corporate finance and restructuring. His&nbsp;clients include multinational companies and financial services firms such as&nbsp;hedge funds. Baker McKenzie boosted revenue by&nbsp;5.5% to $3.3bn in its most recent results, with its Emea unit growing 3.4% year-on-year. Last year,&nbsp;the firm promoted 19 lawyers to partner in&nbsp;Emea. Recent hires in the region include three corporate partners in Johannesburg, a banking partner in London and an international trade partner in Brussels. The London office, which is&nbsp;the firm’s largest globally, is moving this year to&nbsp;new&nbsp;premises at 280 Bishopsgate in Spitalfields. Previous entry: 2022

Emea+ CEO

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NEW ENTRY - Sabina Comis is an Italian national who grew up in&nbsp;Switzerland, trained and qualified in the UK, and now practises law in Paris. A partner at Dechert for six years, she has deep expertise in French tax and private equity fund formation, and was appointed to the three-person management committee for the Paris office in 2021. Most recently, she was elected to the firm’s global policy committee in 2022 before being named global managing partner-elect for the firm, effective from July this year. Comis leads a team of six Paris-based lawyers advising French and international companies, family offices and private equity firms on fund formation and domestic and international tax structuring. Dual-qualified in French and English law, her clients have included funds such as KKR, Archimed and Sofinnova Partners, while she is a&nbsp;go-to adviser on fund formation and tax issues for the companies of two of France’s top billionaires. She recently worked for Sofinnova on&nbsp;the tax implications of a long-term strategic and financial partnership with Apollo, and advised a major US global investment company on the creation of a European retail investment platform. One of two new global managing partners alongside Washington DC-based Vincent Cohen, Comis is focusing on evolving Dechert’s strategy to drive growth. “In my job description, it was very clear that the priority is building consensus around a strategy that allows us to connect the&nbsp;dots between&nbsp;our various offices,” she says.

Global managing partner elect

Since taking over as Linklaters’ senior partner in 2021, Aedamar Comiskey has made diversity one of her priorities. The Magic Circle firm recently announced its latest partner promotions — 41 made the cut, of whom 41% were female; the firm said it also met its 15% target for under-represented minority ethnic partners. The firm’s first female senior partner, Comiskey was previously global head of corporate. A top M&amp;A lawyer, she joined Linklaters in 1995 and became a partner in 2001. She has led some high-profile deals during her career, including advising HSBC on the $5.2bn sale of its Brazilian business to Banco Bradesco in 2016 — the largest financial services deal in South America at that time. She also advised G4S on its acquisition of Allied Universal in 2021. Away from Linklaters, Comiskey is a director at pregnancy and baby loss charity Tommy’s and is also a non-executive director at engineering services company James Fisher &amp; Sons. Previous entries: 2021-22

Marco Compagnoni works with some of the world’s largest private equity firms and has a reputation for getting complex deals over the line. As global co-head of Weil Gotshal &amp; Manges’ private equity practice, his expertise is sought by the likes of Advent International, Bain Capital, Providence Equity Partners and Sun European Partners. Compagnoni advised Advent and its portfolio company IRCA on the acquisition of Kerry Group’s sweet ingredients division this year. Last year, he worked on Sun European Partners’ take-private of London-listed K3 in a deal valuing the company at more than £270m; he also advised Omers on the purchase of a majority stake in Bionic. Compagnoni joined Weil in 2006 from Lovells, where he was a partner. He led the development of Weil’s private equity practice in Europe, expanding and diversifying its client base in the region. He is also a member of the global management committee at the law firm. A lover of contemporary art, he is chair of the board of trustees at the Contemporary Art Society. Previous entry: 2022

Transactional lawyer Lorenzo Corte advises clients on major public and private M&amp;A deals. The London-based partner was appointed as a global head of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher &amp; Flom’s transactions practice in 2022. He now leads more than 430 lawyers and has a focus on its international work across Europe and Asia. Corte also heads the firm’s Italian desk, with clients including Assicurazioni Generali and Luxottica Group. Dual-qualified in New York and England and Wales, Corte acts for financial sponsor clients such as Black Diamond and Silver Lake Partners. Career highlights include working on Intel’s $15.3bn acquisition of Mobileye and advising Arcelor on Mittal Steel’s unsolicited bid and the two companies’ subsequent $33.8bn merger. Corte is an adjunct professor in cross-border M&amp;A at Fordham School of Law in New York, where he teaches a one-credit course every year. In March, he helped launch Fordham Law’s Scott Simpson Cross-Border Institute, which is named after Skadden’s former global transactions head, who died last year. Previous entry: 2022

Global co-head of transactions

A highly regarded corporate lawyer, Karen Davies continues to work on high-profile deals alongside her responsibilities as global chair at City law firm Ashurst. One of the most memorable transactions on which she has worked was eBay’s acquisition of Skype in 2005 for $2.6bn. More recently, she advised software company Aveva on its £9.5bn acquisition by Schneider Electric, which completed in January. In the past year, she has also worked with Amalfi Bidco on its recommended acquisition of CareTech, and Babcock International on two deals: the sale of its UK civil training business to Inspirit Capital and of its aerial emergency services operations in certain countries to Ancala Partners. Previously head of the UK corporate practice and a board member at Ashurst since 2017, Davies was promoted to global chair in 2021. One of the initiatives she has implemented in that role is its FamilyCare policy, which includes paid leave for anyone who suffers pregnancy loss and people undergoing fertility treatments; the firm has also removed gendered language from its parental leave policies. A mentor to junior lawyers, Davies says one of her proudest career moments was the first time someone she had supported from associate level became a partner. She is an avid Formula 1 fan and she is co‑client relationship partner for McLaren Group. Previous entries: 2021-22

Corporate partner and global chair

NEW ENTRY - Gavin Davies says the 18 months to the end of 2022 were the busiest he has experienced in his 30-year career. Davies is global M&amp;A head at Herbert Smith Freehills and a member of the firm’s governing board. Major deals on which he worked last year included advising an affiliate of Elliott Management on its $16bn takeover of media company Nielsen in a consortium with Brookfield Asset Management. He also acted for satellite company One Web on its merger with Eutelsat in a $3.4bn deal. Other clients of his include education company Pearson and real estate company British Land. The M&amp;A lawyer has long had an interest in helping developing countries grow their capacity to receive inward investment. He has advised the government of Sierra Leone pro bono since 2010, and has also worked with organisations such as the UK Sierra Leone Pro Bono Network, the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Since 2011, he has worked with the International Lawyers Project, a charity that provides the skills of senior lawyers to human rights, economic development and rule of law projects worldwide. He has also been a member of the UK government’s investment Trade Advisory Group since 2020. Outside work, Davies is a keen cyclist and reader, and often spends time supporting his children’s sporting endeavours.

Head of global M&A

Under Georgia Dawson’s leadership, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has continued to hire over the past year, including strengthening its London bench and expanding in the US. Last year, the firm hired M&amp;A partner Jenny Hochenberg from Cravath Swaine &amp; Moore in New York, following on from its landmark hire of fellow Cravath M&amp;A partner Damien Zoubek, who joined the firm in 2021. In the UK, recent hires have included private equity partner Rebecca Ward, who joined from boutique firm Dickson Minto, and leveraged finance partner Carol Van der Vorst who joined from Ropes &amp; Gray. Dawson made history in 2020 when she became the first woman to lead a Magic Circle law firm, following her election as Freshfields’ senior partner. Since her elevation, the firm has made diversity a focus — one of Dawson’s first acts as senior partner was to introduce in 2021 targets for gender, race, ethnicity and LGBTQ+ representation. The firm promoted 30 lawyers to its global partnership in April this year, of whom more than half were women. In addition, 18% of the new UK and US partners are from under-represented racial or ethnic groups. Litigation specialist Dawson was previously head of the firm’s Asia business. She began her career at Freehills in Sydney and joined Freshfields in 2004. In her spare time, she is a keen runner and baker. Previous entries: 2021-22

Richard East and his team at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &amp; Sullivan were drafted into a high-profile case earlier this year when they were retained by a group of Credit Suisse Additional Tier 1 bond holders to represent them in litigation against the Swiss government. UBS bought Credit Suisse in a $3.25bn emergency deal brokered by the Swiss government in March, when the latter bank faced imminent collapse. However, the country’s financial regulator Finma wiped out the value of $17bn of Credit Suisse’s AT1 bonds, which it said was contractually provided for in a ‘Viability Event’ particularly if extraordinary government support was granted. Bondholders with about $5bn of cancelled debt wanted the decision to write down their bonds revoked or amended, and have appealed the decision. East says he is now looking forward to “seeking compensation for our clients”. He is also representing the administrators of collapsed healthcare firm NMC Health, Alvarez &amp; Marsal, in their £2bn lawsuit against Big Four accountancy firm EY, which audited the business before its collapse in 2020 after allegations of fraud. A litigation and arbitration lawyer for more than two decades, East was a partner at Kirkland &amp; Ellis before going on to found the London office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &amp; Sullivan in 2008. He was co-head of Quinn’s London office for 11 years before taking on his current role. Last year, the US firm posted revenue of £133.6m in London — up 5% on the previous year, while profit rose 10% to nearly £95m. Previous entry: 2022

Senior partner, London office

Deborah Finkler forged a reputation as a leading banking, commercial litigation and regulatory lawyer before becoming managing partner at Slaughter and May last year. One of her focuses in her new role is diversity and, like its peers, the firm has set gender and ethnicity targets for its partner promotions. In March this year, it announced its largest round of partner promotions since 2016, elevating 10 people, including its first partner of Black heritage. Women made up 40% of the new partners and 30% were from minority-ethnic backgrounds. Finkler joined Slaughter and May in 1986 and was&nbsp;made partner in 1991. During her career at&nbsp;the&nbsp;firm, she has worked with some of the biggest names in financial services and beyond. In 2019, she and her team published Slaughter and May’s independent review of TSB’s botched IT migration in 2018, which left the bank’s customers unable to access their accounts and resulted in a nearly £49m fine from the Financial Conduct Authority.&nbsp; She also advised Deutsche Bank in relation to regulatory investigations into the manipulation of Libor and other benchmarks, as well as worked with advertising and PR group WPP on&nbsp;issues arising from&nbsp;the departure in 2018 of its founder,&nbsp;Sir Martin Sorrell. Previous entry: 2022

Managing partner

Respected M&amp;A lawyer Michael Francies has led US law firm Weil Gotshal &amp; Mange’s London office since 2000. Under his leadership, revenue for Weil’s UK limited liability partnership jumped 30% to £222m in the firm’s 2021 results, while profit before tax climbed more than 50% to £118m. The London office has also made a series of eye-catching hires recently, including rising M&amp;A star Sarah Flaherty from Linklaters, high-yield finance partners Gilles Teerlinck from White &amp; Case and Andy Hagan from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and infrastructure partner Brendan Moylan from Latham &amp; Watkins. Francies also leads a team focused on internal ESG strategy, covering areas such as diversity and inclusion, wellness, climate change and pro bono. Last year, Weil collaborated with Oxford University’s Saïd Business School to create a programme for its London lawyers covering issues such as ESG investing, financing, and reporting and metrics. Previous entries: 2021-22

London managing partner

Glover - Levy

Despite a slowing environment for private equity firm fundraising in 2022, Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett’s London office managing partner Jason Glover worked on several successful fundraises in 2022 — and he has more in the&nbsp;pipeline. One of the top fund formation lawyers in Europe, his recent work has included advising Coller Capital on its first credit secondaries fund, Coller Credit Opportunities I, which raised $1.4bn. Glover and his team worked on the&nbsp;formation of Cinven’s €1.5bn Strategic Financials fund. In January last year, they advised Astorg on its €1.3bn Astorg IQ-EQ Continuation fund and the acquisition of investor services group&nbsp;IQ-EQ, which was previously owned by the private equity firm’s fifth fund. As London office managing partner at Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett, Glover has oversight of more than 200 lawyers, while he&nbsp;leads more than 100 fee earners as head of the&nbsp;funds practice in Europe. He is also a member of&nbsp;the executive committee. In July, following a call to action by female partners at Simpson Thacher and other firms, Glover joined a group of more than 45 male partners at the firm who pledged to offer their individual legal services&nbsp;pro bono to organisations that defend and&nbsp;support women’s right to autonomy, equality and safe access to reproductive care. Previous entries: 2021-22&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Managing partner, London office and head of the funds practice, Europe

NEW ENTRY - Dominic Griffiths was appointed to lead the London office of US law firm Mayer Brown last year, having co-led the firm’s global banking practice since 2014. He leads more than 250 lawyers and more than 500 staff. The firm has added 11 lateral partners in London in the previous two years and in 2022 promoted four lawyers to partner.&nbsp; Griffiths last year acted for institutional investor Waterwheel Capital Management on its investment in a €3.2bn portfolio of non-performing loans originated by a Greek bank. His clients include banks such as HSBC, JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank, as well as alternatives firms such as Intermediate Capital Group, TPG Capital and Värde Partners. Griffiths is Mayer Brown’s graduate recruitment partner in London and has a long-standing commitment to increasing diversity in the legal profession. He is a director and member of the advisory board of social mobility charity One Million Mentors and a trustee of children’s theatre charity, Unicorn Theatre. Griffiths was last year appointed as a court assistant to livery company The Worshipful Company of Solicitors; this year, he was named as the company’s representative in The Financial Services Group of Livery Companies.

Natasha Harrison’s Pallas Partners has just celebrated its first birthday. The firm has undergone rapid growth during its first 12 months. It launched in London in February 2022,&nbsp;before moving on to set up a New York office a few months later. Harrison now oversees 46 staff across the two sites, including 25 lawyers. The firm has several financial services clients and is involved in some long-running cases, including representing creditors that have issues claims in the English High Court against Credit Suisse, the Republic of Mozambique and Mozambican state-owned entity ProIndicus SA. Harrison specialises in complex commercial litigation and arbitration disputes. She previously&nbsp;spent a decade at Boies Schiller Flexner, leading its London office from 2013 and becoming a managing partner in 2019. Before that, she spent a decade at Bingham McCutchen, after spending nearly four years as an associate at Weil Gotshal &amp; Manges. Pallas Partners is majority female‑owned and has above‑average representation of LGBTQ+ colleagues. Earlier this&nbsp;year, the firm took advantage of its alternative business structure to promote a non-lawyer to its partnership, with chief administrative officer Linda Penfold getting&nbsp;promoted to that rank. Previous entry: 2022

Founder and managing partner

Jon Hayes was elected as senior partner of DLA Piper’s international arm in May 2022. The corporate lawyer joined DLA in its City office&nbsp;in 2009 from Magic Circle firm Linklaters where he was a partner. DLA Piper posted a 6% revenue increase for 2022, marking its sixth year of consecutive revenue growth. The firm also topped Mergermarket’s global league table for legal advisers by M&amp;A deal volume for the 13th consecutive year in 2022 — it advised on 1,131 deals that were valued at approximately $137.6bn in total. Hayes is the lead sponsor and member of the firm’s diversity and inclusion council. He is also a member of the&nbsp;board of the firm’s non-profit pro bono affiliate&nbsp;New Perimeter. Previous entry: 2022

Global co-chair, senior partner

Jonathan Herbst advises clients on financial services regulation, including bank structuring, clearing, commodity derivatives and regulatory aspects of transactions. Following the UK’s exit from the EU, Herbst advised ABN Amro and Societe Generale in relation to&nbsp;their reauthorisation as third-country branches in the UK; he&nbsp;also advised the London Stock Exchange Group in relation to its post-Brexit market structuring plans. London‑based Herbst was formerly head of EU law at City regulator the Financial Services Authority before going into private practice. He has spent more than two decades at Norton Rose Fulbright. He chairs the Future Regulation Group of the International Regulatory Strategy Group, which is a joint venture between TheCityUK and the City of&nbsp;London Corporation to shape the development of a global regulatory framework for financial services. He is involved with a Law Society sub-committee that focuses on financial services and&nbsp;the FCA’s Lawyers Consultative Group. Previous entry: 2022

Global head of financial services regulation

Private equity lawyer David Higgins advises leading global buyout firms, such as Blackstone, BC Partners and Hellman &amp; Friedman as part of one of the largest sponsor-focused teams in Europe. Recent work includes advising BC Partners on the €1bn extension of its investment in Springer Nature, Antin Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition of outdoor media infrastructure company Wildstone, and Partners Group on its €1bn acquisition of software company Forterro. As co-head of the European corporate practice at Kirkland &amp; Ellis, Higgins leads 135 lawyers in London, Paris, Munich and Brussels. He is also part of the firm’s executive committee. Higgins joined Kirkland &amp; Ellis in 2018. He started his career at Slaughter and May before joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he became a partner in 2001. A keen adventure traveller, Higgins recently visited Iraq and Libya. He is also an active member of private equity foundation Impetus, which supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and privately supports academic research into cancer at Exeter University. Previous entries: 2021-22

Co-head of the European corporate practice

Jeremy Hoyland is serving his third stint as managing partner of City law firm Simmons &amp; Simmons and recently had his term extended by two years to April 2025. He has been at the firm for more than three decades and headed its financial markets and financial institution sector before taking on his current job in&nbsp;2011. In its most recent financial results, Simmons posted a 6% revenue increase to £465m while average profit per equity partner exceeded £1m for the first time. Simmons has focused on hiring in continental Europe in the aftermath of Brexit, with recent additions including a leveraged finance partner in Frankfurt and an employment law partner in Milan. Hoyland has also led the firm’s investments in tech, including legal engineering company Wavelength, which it acquired in 2019, and a series of legal tech products offered to clients under the Simmons Solutions brand. He has also opened offices in&nbsp;Bristol, Beijing, Cambridge, Dublin, Munich, Luxembourg, Shenzhen and San Francisco. Hoyland joined the firm in 1991 and has also worked&nbsp;in&nbsp;Simmons &amp; Simmons’ Hong Kong office. Previous entry: 2022

NEW ENTRY - Jonathan Jones was recently appointed to a second three-year term as European managing partner at US-headquartered Squire Patton Boggs. He led the firm’s Leeds&nbsp;office for four years from 2009, before which he was head of private equity. He now leads the firm’s European and Australian offices, overseeing around 700 lawyers. He is also a member of the firm’s global board and its executive leadership group. Under him, the firm’s UK partnership delivered its best-ever year in 2022, with revenue up nearly 17% to £212m and profit before tax up 37% to nearly £75m. He has also driven the launch of the firm’s Dublin office, which opened earlier this month. Social mobility is&nbsp;a big focus for Jones. He helped start a scholarship programme at the firm in collaboration with the Social Mobility Business Partnership. The three-year scheme awards financial assistance to students from under-represented groups and low-income backgrounds who are in their final year of school and who aspire to become lawyers. Jones has also expanded the firm’s apprenticeship programme, which gives school leavers the chance to achieve legal qualifications at the firm.

European managing partner

Financial services regulation expert Rachel Kent was called up in March by the government to lead a review of the UK’s research and investment landscape and come up with steps&nbsp;to help make London a more&nbsp;attractive place for companies to go public. She is no&nbsp;stranger to government reviews, having been vice-chair of&nbsp;the&nbsp;policy and regulation chapter of the Treasury’s&nbsp;2021 Kalifa Review of the fintech industry. One of the UK’s top regulatory lawyers, Kent’s clients include fintechs, banks, insurers, asset&nbsp;managers and clearing houses. She is Hogan’s&nbsp;lead relationship partner for the UK government and is on the board of the&nbsp;International Regulatory Strategy Group. Previous entries: 2021-22

Senior financial services partner

Stephen Levy is a senior corporate partner at&nbsp;Dentons and sits on its global board. He also chairs the board for its UK, Ireland and Middle East region, which posted a 14% revenue increase in the year to 30 April 2022. Levy’s private equity clients include heavyweights such as KKR, Waterland and KPS Capital Partners. Last year, he advised private equity firm&nbsp;Astorg on&nbsp;its acquisition of&nbsp;a majority stake in Avania from Kester Capital. Levy describes himself as a “keen (but slow) cyclist”, and has&nbsp;raised money for cancer hospital The Christie&nbsp;in&nbsp;Manchester, Cancer Research UK and&nbsp;children’s charity A Smile for Orly. Levy joined&nbsp;Dentons from&nbsp;Pinsent Masons in 2016. Previous entry: 2022

Senior corporate partner

Lewis - Russell

Paul Lewis was elected as Linklaters’ managing partner in July 2021. Since taking up his role, Lewis and senior partner Aedmar Comiskey have ushered through a change to the firm’s lockstep pay system aimed at helping the UK Magic Circle firm to compete with its US rivals better. Linklaters has been active in the recruitment market in the past year, with recent additions in&nbsp;London including private equity partner Genna Marten, who joined from Travers Smith, and infrastructure partner John Guccione, who joined from Latham &amp; Watkins. Linklaters was the first major Western law firm to announce it was pulling out of Moscow in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Lewis joined Linklaters in 1997 as a trainee lawyer and made partner at the firm at 30. His legal practice focuses on capital markets, with a&nbsp;specialism in derivatives and structured securities. He was previously co-head of innovation for the firm, advising on fintech-related issues and helping lead Linklaters’ smart contract and distributed ledger&nbsp;technology&nbsp;initiatives. Previous entry: 2022

Stephen Lucas joined Kirkland &amp; Ellis in 2014 and as co-head of European debt finance he advises private equity firms on all aspects of financing. Last year he worked with Apax on the financing for its take-private of EcoOnline, which was listed on Euronext Growth, the exchange’s multilateral trading facility, and he also advised the private equity firm on financing for its purchase of Alcumus Group. Lucas started his career at Clifford Chance in 1992, where he spent nine years and became one of the youngest lawyers to be promoted to partner. At Linklaters he was one of the founders of its leveraged finance practice before moving to Weil Gotshal &amp; Manges and then Kirkland. As well as his private equity work, he is involved in strategic issues for Kirkland’s European offices. He led and negotiated all aspects of the London office move to 40 Leadenhall, which will open in December 2024. He has also overseen the continued growth of the firm across Europe including leading on 26 partner promotions at its offices in the region in&nbsp;in 2022. Outside work, he is an Arsenal supporter and also has an interest in the works of William Shakespeare. Previous entry: 2022

Co-head of European debt finance

Suhrud Mehta is co-managing partner of Milbank’s London office, co-head of the firm’s leveraged finance group and a member of the firm’s five‑person executive committee. Milbank’s European leveraged finance team focuses on advising banks and direct lenders. Recent deals for Mehta include working on the financing of Brookfield Infrastructure’s £4bn acquisition of HomeServe, a London-listed home emergency repairs and improvements business. Since he took over as co-head of the London office in 2016, it has grown to become the firm’s second-largest after New York, with more than 170 lawyers and revenue of $189m in 2021. The firm also moved to a new London base — 100 Liverpool Street — at the end of that year. This year, Milbank added a six-partner team in the UK from legal boutique Dickson Minto to boost its private equity M&amp;A capabilities. Previous entries: 2021-22

Co-managing partner, London

Corporate partner Alvaro Membrillera has been key to the growth of the London office at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton &amp; Garrison since taking over as its head in 2019. He&nbsp;advises private equity firms including KKR, BC Partners and General Atlantic, and oversees more than 30 legal staff in the UK. In the past 12 months, he has worked on KPS Capital Partners portfolio company Speira’s acquisition of the European business of Real Alloy Europe, and advised a consortium of investors on the acquisition of Irish infrastructure company Celtic Roads Group (Waterford) DAC. Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese, Membrillera worked in Brazil and New York before moving to London. He worked for Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett for 15 years in New York and then London, before joining Paul Weiss in 2017. He studied at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain and at NYU School of Law in New York, and is admitted to practice law in both jurisdictions. Previous entry: 2022

Head of the London office

A member of the global executive committee at Chicago-headquartered Sidley Austin, Leonard Ng advises asset managers, hedge funds and private equity funds on EU and UK regulatory issues. Deal highlights of the past year include advising Clearlake Capital on its acquisition of Chelsea Football Club as part of a consortium co‑led by Eldridge’s chair and chief executive Todd Boehly; he also acted for real estate business Colliers on its investment in Basalt Infrastructure Partners and advised Northwood Investors on its sale of City of London office building 20 Gracechurch Street. Sidley has been on a recent expansion tear in London, adding a two-partner infrastructure team from Weil Gotshal &amp; Manges and hiring Shearman &amp; Sterling’s Emea M&amp;A head Philip Cheveley. A talented musician who has been playing guitar and piano since he was a teenager, Ng chairs the firm’s London diversity committee. He is also a past board member of the Managed Funds Association, the global trade association for hedge funds. Previous entry: 2022

Co-head of UK/EU financial services regulatory group

Will Pearce leads New York firm Davis Polk &amp; Wardwell’s European operations from London. He joined the firm in May 2013 as its second English-qualified corporate partner after seven years as a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills. In 2021, he was appointed to head the firm’s London and European offices. Last year, Pearce advised private equity firm Brookfield Business Partners on the $16bn acquisition of data company Nielsen Holdings by a consortium led by Brookfield and Evergreen Coast Capital. He also acted for Gilead Sciences on its $405m acquisition of UK biotechnology company MiroBio. Pearce, who grew up in Birmingham, has practised in London, Hong Kong and Madrid during his time at Herbert Smith Freehills. He served on Davis Polk’s compensation committee two years, before assuming European management responsibilities. Previous entry: 2022

Head of Europe practice

Luke Powell was co-head of Macfarlanes' corporate and M&amp;A team from 2018 until May 2022, which is when he took up the role of managing partner at the City firm. His regular clients include Goldman Sachs, Permira, Legal &amp; General, Chrysalis Investments and Federated Hermes. Last year, Powell was part of a team that advised private debt investment manager Arcmont Asset Management on its sale to Nuveen, the investment manager of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America. In its most recent financial results for the year ended April 2022, Macfarlanes posted record average profit per equity partner of £2.5m, with revenue climbing 16% to £303m. Powell joined Macfarlanes in 2004 and made partner in 2007. He trained at Slaughter and May. Previous entry: 2022

Gareth Price has led Allen &amp; Overy as global managing partner since May 2020, steering the firm through Covid and the deal boom that followed. Revenue rose 10% to £1.94bn in the year to 30 April 2022, with average profit per equity partner up 3% to £1.95m. On his watch, the firm has continued to pursue growth in the US. Recent hires have included New York M&amp;A partners David Ingles, who joined from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, and Romain Dambre, who came from Kirkland &amp; Ellis. Price has not been afraid to take potentially unpopular decisions — last July, he froze salaries for newly qualified lawyers at £107,500, despite intense competition on pay in the sector, though has just increased this to £125,000, matching its Magic Circle rivals. A&amp;O has also embraced the future, rolling out AI platform Harvey to more than 3,500 lawyers in the firm. Price joined A&amp;O as an associate in 1996 and was made a partner in 2003. He was projects and energy head for eight years from 2012, before he was elected managing partner. Last year, he was appointed to advise a City of London task force working to increase socio-economic diversity at senior levels in UK financial and professional services. Previous entry: 2022

Lee Ranson has led Eversheds Sutherland’s non‑US business since UK firm Eversheds’ tie-up with US firm Sutherland Asbill &amp; Brennan in 2017. Ranson was appointed to a second four-year term in the role from May 2021. A 32-year veteran of the firm, he previously led Eversheds’ real&nbsp;estate group before serving as managing partner from 2009. The international arm he leads posted an 8% revenue bump to more than £678m in results to April 2022; average profit per equity partner rose 26% to more&nbsp;than £1.2m. Ranson had a brief stint as a police officer before becoming a solicitor. He has spent his entire legal career at Eversheds, practising as a&nbsp;commercial litigator. A fan of Nottingham Forest&nbsp;football club, he enjoys reading about history and supports charity SportsAid, which provides financial assistance to young athletes. Previous entry: 2022

Co-chief executive

NEW ENTRY - For almost three decades, Barry Russell has been on the front line of the most significant and high-profile cross-border workouts and financial restructurings of European companies. An American from Connecticut, he came to London on a short-term brief to set up a restructuring practice in 1996. He stayed and has since gone on to pioneer the representation of bondholders, noteholders and other creditor groups in some of the most complex restructurings ever done in Europe. Alongside James Roome, Russell led the combination of Akin Gump with Bingham McCutchen’s London, Hong Kong and Frankfurt offices in 2014 — which was the largest-ever lateral move in the UK market, at the time. Now the senior partner in Akin Gump’s London financial restructuring group and a member of the London senior leadership team, Russell continues to work for insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds and other institutional investors. Renowned for his work on the restructuring of more than $33bn in bonds and other debt issued by the three major Icelandic banks that collapsed in 2008, Russell recently led the team on the $6bn global restructuring of Nordic Aviation Capital, the largest lessor of regional aircraft in the world. That deal was completed in June 2022 and was closely followed by the reorganisation of commodities trader Noble Group, a $1.5bn restructuring that Russell also engineered. Russell was also lead counsel on the 2022 restructuring of ED&amp;F Man Treasury Management, which involved the refinancing of more than $1.5bn of debt. During lockdown, Russell returned after a 35-year hiatus to playing and collecting bass guitars. An avid golfer, he also enjoys walking his two Newfoundland rescue dogs.

Financial restructuring partner

Sabharwal - Wills

Despite a market slowdown following the M&amp;A boom of 2021, Dipen Sabharwal oversaw a record year for White &amp; Case’s London office in&nbsp;2022. One of the firm’s most important offices, its revenue hit $450m last year, which represented around a sixth of&nbsp;White &amp; Case’s total revenue. “We have made tremendous strides in London in our M&amp;A practice and our restructuring practice and we have one of the largest disputes practices in London,” Sabharwal says. Recent major deals handled out&nbsp;of London include advising Vue Cinemas on its recapitalisation and acting for retailer Fenwick on the sale of its flagship store on Bond Street. Sabharwal is qualified to practise in England and Wales, New York and India. The King’s Counsel took silk in 2019, in recognition of his standing as a solicitor advocate — a special role in the UK legal system that gives solicitors the ability to represent clients in higher courts, which are usually reserved for barristers. As well as London office executive partner, Sabharwal is an international arbitration partner, focusing on sectors such as technology, energy and the media; he also heads the firm’s India practice group. He regularly lectures at King’s College London and&nbsp;serves as the India rapporteur for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Institute&nbsp;for&nbsp;Transnational Arbitration. Previous entry: 2022

London office executive partner

NEW ENTRY - Tihir Sarkar joined Cleary Gottlieb Steen &amp; Hamilton’s top management committee in 2021. Since then, he has overseen two of its London office’s best‑ever years by revenue, as well as led on a series of market-defining lateral hires. The son of Indian immigrants, Sarkar was born and grew up in Birmingham. He joined Cleary from Slaughter and May in 2003 — one of the first English lawyers to migrate to a US firm. He opened the firm’s Abu Dhabi office in 2012 and played a key role in developing the firm’s sovereign wealth practice, before stepping up to his current leadership position. As the senior M&amp;A partner in London, Sarkar oversees seven other partners, three counsels and 21 associates doing deals. Now active for clients including American Express, Coca‑Cola, Euronext, GSK and the Qatar Investment Authority, Sarkar maintains a busy practice focused on top-end M&amp;A, private equity and financing work, alongside his management responsibilities. In 2021, he led the team that advised Euronext on its €4.3bn acquisition of Borsa Italiana Group from the London Stock Exchange Group. Last year, he oversaw through his Emea role on the executive committee the firm’s exit from the Russian market; he also hired big-name partners, including Nick Rumsby from Linklaters and Ian Shawyer from Travers Smith. He has grown the number of London partners to 28 in the past year — an increase of almost a third. A father of three, a graduate of the University of Manchester and an Arsenal fan, he enjoys football, tennis and cricket in his spare time.

Partner and member of executive committee

NEW ENTRY - Yen Sum has more than two decades of experience advising private equity firms, hedge funds and credit funds on financial and operational restructurings, special situations and alternative investments. Last year, she was&nbsp;promoted to co-lead a&nbsp;big&nbsp;new practice for Latham &amp;&nbsp;Watkins that brings together lawyers from various practices and offices to support private capital clients across all asset classes. She started her career in Australia, having grown up there. She worked at Linklaters and was a partner at Sidley Austin, before she joined Latham’s London office in 2018. Last year, she worked on the&nbsp;€570m recapitalisation of bedding and mattress company Hilding Anders. Previous high‑profile work includes advising senior creditors in relation to the €300m rescue financing of aviation services business Swissport in 2020, as well as the subsequent €2.9bn debt and&nbsp;equity&nbsp;restructuring of the firm.

Global chair of the private capital practice

Mergers and acquisitions specialist Roland Turnill is due to become Slaughter and May’s next senior partner, replacing Steve Cooke in May&nbsp;2024. Turnill co-heads the Magic Circle firm’s financial institutions group and recently stepped down as head of M&amp;A after six years. He works with several FTSE 100 clients including&nbsp;M&amp;G, Vodafone and Royal Dutch Shell. Recent deals on which he has advised include Authentic Brands Group’s acquisition of Ted Baker in August and Next’s acquisition of clothing brand Joules in December. Highlights from his career include advising Akzo Nobel on its takeover of ICI,&nbsp;as well as acting for Vodafone on the disposal of its interest in Verizon Wireless for $130bn — which is still one of the largest-ever corporate transactions. Turnill joined Slaughter and May in&nbsp;1998 and made partner in 2004. Previous entries: 2021-22

Co-head of financial institutions group

Nigel van Zyl co-heads US firm Proskauer’s private funds practice, leading lawyers across the Americas, Europe and Asia. He focuses on advising institutional investors, asset managers and investment advisers on fundraising, as well as the formation and ongoing maintenance and compliance of&nbsp;their funds, among other matters. Recent deals include acting for Bencis Capital Partners on the formation and closing in March of its Bencis IV Continuation fund, a €123m vehicle for Bencis to provide additional capital to four portfolio companies from its fourth fund. Van Zyl is a key adviser to private equity firm Hg Capital on its funds work. He acted for Hg on its $11bn Saturn 3 fund, which it raised in 2022. Other clients include G Square Capital, Gilde Buy Out Partners, EMK Capital Partners and Tenzing Private Equity. Hailing from South Africa, van&nbsp;Zyl studied at the&nbsp;University of KwaZulu-Natal. He was&nbsp;a partner at SJ Berwin for 12 years, before&nbsp;joining&nbsp;Proskauer’s London office in 2012. Previous entry: 2022

Co-head of the private funds group

As one of Europe’s leading private funds and funds regulatory lawyers, Patricia Volhard has had her work cut out for her in recent years thanks to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, Brexit and the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. The last of these has been one of her focuses over the past 12 months, and she has been working with clients such as KKR, Lexington, Coller Capital and Allianz Capital Partners to help them navigate the still relatively new rules. Volhard also works with portfolio companies on issues such as the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, which came into force in February for around 50,000 corporates, as well as advising on fundraising and fund structuring. As managing partner of the Frankfurt, Paris and Luxembourg offices, Volhard oversees nearly 40 lawyers. She splits her time between the three cities, but is also in London regularly. She was chair of trade body Invest Europe’s legal and regulatory committee and is on&nbsp;the board of the BVK, Germany’s private equity and venture capital association. She rejoined Debevoise &amp; Plimpton in 2017 from Pöllath &amp;&nbsp;Partners, where she had worked for 12 years. Previous entry: 2022

Head of European funds regulatory practice; managing partner, continental Europe

David Walker has been global vice-chair of the corporate department at Latham &amp; Watkins since 2018, overseeing more than 450 lawyers across the firm’s offices in Europe. # He was previously co-chair of the Latham &amp; Watkins’ private equity practice and has been instrumental in its growth in Europe. Walker continues to work on transactions for buyout firms, including last year advising Equistone Partners Europe on the sale of Acuity Knowledge Partners to Permira. He also represented Energy Capital Partners on its offer for Biffa. He joined Latham as a partner in&nbsp;2013 from Clifford Chance, where he started as&nbsp;a&nbsp;trainee in 1991, becoming a partner in 2000. Previous entry: 2022

Global vice-chair of the corporate department

Sandra Wallace is DLA Piper’s joint managing director for the UK and Europe and a member of&nbsp;the firm’s international executive committee. An employment lawyer by background, she joined DLA Piper in 1994 and was promoted to partner in 2001. Her legal practice focuses on issues such as executive disputes, employee relations and&nbsp;business reorganisations. Outside the firm, Wallace is a reputed social mobility champion. She was appointed interim chair of the government’s Social&nbsp;Mobility&nbsp;Commission in 2020 and was co‑chair of the City of London’s Socio-economic Diversity Taskforce. Wallace’s alma mater, the University of&nbsp;Wolverhampton, appointed her pro‑chancellor for social mobility in 2021. She was&nbsp;awarded a&nbsp;CBE&nbsp;in last year’s New Year Honours for services&nbsp;to law and social mobility. Wallace has also been in The Powerlist — the most influential people of African and African-Caribbean heritage in the UK — every year since 2018. Previous entries: 2021-22

Joint managing director, UK and Europe

Oil and gas lawyer Penelope Warne is the senior partner at CMS UK, chair of its board and head of&nbsp;its energy and climate change practice. CMS posted UK revenue of £644m in its most recent financial results, a growth of more than 13% year-on-year. Globally, the firm boosted revenue 18% to&nbsp;€1.75bn in 2021. Dual-qualified in English and Scots law, Warne trained with Slaughter and May, joining the firm in 1993 to&nbsp;launch its Aberdeen office. She oversaw its merger with Scottish stalwart Dundas &amp; Wilson&nbsp;in 2014, then helped engineer a three-way tie-up with Olswang and Nabarro in 2017 in&nbsp;what was the&nbsp;UK’s largest-ever law firm merger. Warne has been instrumental in an initiative at&nbsp;CMS to give staff up&nbsp;to one month’s extra leave per year to explore their interests or rejuvenate. She is a member of&nbsp;The Law Society’s board and a&nbsp;founding member of the Law Societies’ Compact and Forum.&nbsp; Away from&nbsp;work, she enjoys time with her family, as&nbsp;well&nbsp;as house and garden design. Previous entry: 2022

Claire Wills advises financial services firms such as banks, asset managers and insurers on their key mandates. Until her term finished at the end of April, she was also managing partner of&nbsp;Freshfields’ London office, which is its largest by revenue and headcount with more than 1,000 people. Previously co-head of the firm’s financial institutions group and chair of&nbsp;its partner recommendation committee, she took on the role in 2019 and oversaw the firm’s move in 2020 to its new London headquarters at&nbsp;100 Bishopsgate. Diversity and inclusion is a&nbsp;key focus for Wills. She has been involved in new&nbsp;staff initiatives to offer up to $60,000 in fertility benefits and to support&nbsp;anyone experiencing menopause. Outside of work, Wills is a trustee of&nbsp;the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess&nbsp;of Wales, which focuses on charitable work related to&nbsp;conservation, early childhood, mental health and emergency responders. Previous entry: 2022

Corporate partner

Fifty Most Influential Lawyers 2023

As FN was compiling the list, news broke of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, swiftly followed by the crisis at Credit Suisse. These events follow a&nbsp;tough&nbsp;year for the sector in&nbsp;which dealmaking was hit by rising inflation and interest&nbsp;rates, as well as the war in Ukraine. Despite all this, the senior executives featured lead businesses that have continued to make hires, work on major deals and maintain top league table positions during the past 12&nbsp;months. The final selection is heavily skewed towards men, a&nbsp;reflection of the dearth of senior women in investment banking — FN recently reported that <a href="https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/if-we-act-like-men-it-backfires-senior-female-bankers-on-the-dearth-of-women-in-dealmaking-20230308" target="_blank">only 10% of managing directors and partners in Emea are female</a>, according to Maven Search’s research of&nbsp;the&nbsp;largest investment banks. The 20 places this year include three joint entries for co‑heads of&nbsp;divisions. The list is a mix of&nbsp;global leaders of investment&nbsp;banking units, based in Europe, and Emea heads.&nbsp;

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Dorothee Blessing and Conor Hillery took up their current roles in February 2020 as part of a&nbsp;broader shake-up of JPMorgan’s investment bank&nbsp;that saw several of its dealmakers promoted into key management positions. JPMorgan’s&nbsp;investment bank has led the fee league tables in Emea since it displaced Deutsche Bank from the top in 2014. Last&nbsp;year, amid a relative deal drought, it made $1.6bn in the region, gaining a 7.6% market share. Blessing spent around 20 years at&nbsp;Goldman Sachs before retiring from the firm in 2013 — only to return to the sector shortly after with a role at JPMorgan leading its business in German-speaking Europe, Ireland, Israel and the&nbsp;Nordics. She relocated from Frankfurt to London when she took up her current position. Blessing has made frequent appearances in Financial News’s list of 100 Most Influential Women in Finance. Hillery joined JPMorgan through its takeover of blue-blooded UK broker Cazenove, which started through a joint venture in 2005. He&nbsp;co-headed JPMorgan’s UK investment banking business for three years until 2016, when he&nbsp;switched to leading its financial institutions coverage globally. Originally from Dublin, Hillery&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;trustee at Ireland Funds of Great Britain, a&nbsp;philanthropic network that raises funds for projects in Ireland. Both sit on JPMorgan’s global banking management team, helping shape its&nbsp;investment banking strategy, including hiring senior dealmakers&nbsp;and identifying key areas of investment. They report to Vis Raghavan and&nbsp;Jim Casey, who co-head the division globally. Last year, JPMorgan hired Richard Sheppard as cohead of UK investment banking. He was previously co-head of M&amp;A for Emea at Deutsche Bank.

Co-heads of Emea investment banking

Matthew Cannon is a financial institutions specialist who has made it to the upper ranks of&nbsp;Bank of America’s investment banking division. He joined the&nbsp;Wall Street bank in 2018 from Morgan Stanley — where he&nbsp;led its financial institutions group —&nbsp;as co-head of UK and Ireland investment banking. The former Lehman Brothers banker was handed a promotion around a&nbsp;year later, heading up&nbsp;its&nbsp;Emea&nbsp;dealmaking team following the departure of Luigi Rizzo. Cannon now&nbsp;oversees Bank of America’s investment banking and financial&nbsp;sponsors teams in the region, which last year broke into the&nbsp;top three in Emea for the&nbsp;first time in a decade. He has also worked on some big UK financial services deals in&nbsp;recent years&nbsp;including the £5bn demerger of&nbsp;fund manager M&amp;G from Prudential in 2018 and&nbsp;the £7.2bn&nbsp;sale of&nbsp;insurer RSA to Intact in 2021.

Head of Emea investment banking

Jim Esposito has worked at Goldman Sachs since 1995, starting out in emerging markets sales before being named a managing director in 2002 and a partner in 2006. But it has been in the past five years that he has taken on some of the biggest roles at the bank. After spending two years as chief strategy officer for its securities division, he became co-head of the markets unit in 2018, taking charge of one of Goldman’s crown jewels. In another reshuffle in 2021, Esposito was named co‑head of the Wall Street giant’s investment banking division, a return to dealmaking for the London-based New Jersey native. He has also previously led its financing division, first in Europe and then globally. A major overhaul of Goldman’s business in October saw Esposito rise again. He became co-head of global banking and markets — its newly combined trading and dealmaking unit — alongside Ashok Varadhan and Dan Dees. During its investor day in February, Goldman Sachs laid out plans to gain market share within its investment bank. It finished second in the global investment banking fee league tables last year, with $6bn, according to data provider Dealogic, closing the gap on its long‑term rival for the top spot, JPMorgan. Esposito was a wrestler during his university years and is on the board of directors of Beat the Streets, a youth wrestling organisation. He previously told Financial News that wrestling helped instil a fierce sense of competition in him. “Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy,” he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Co-head of global banking and markets

Manolo Falco took charge of a new-look investment banking division at Citigroup alongside US-based Tyler Dickson in 2018. The pair have upped the ambition of the unit, which is now chasing as many ‘medal’ positions in the league tables as possible. Falco previously ran Citi’s corporate and investment banking division in Emea, before which he was head of banking for Iberia. Since taking on his global role, the bank has been hiring senior dealmakers and looking to gain share from rivals in key locations. Citi has also created a series of ‘supergroups’ in its investment bank over the past three years, which have broken down traditional sector barriers and focused on key macro drivers of deal activity. Falco joined Citi in 1998 from SG Warburg, where he worked for 10 years in both London and Madrid. He retains close links with his home country of Spain, including as a member of the Patronato International of the Teatro Real in Madrid. He is also a member of the Trilateral Commission, which brings together politicians, business leaders, media representatives and academics to discuss global issues. Citi’s BCMA unit has nearly 6,000 employees and has continued to attract top talent including former Credit Suisse global banking boss Jens Welter, who was hired to co-head its investment bank in Emea in December. Citi finished fifth in the investment banking fee league tables last year with $3.1bn, or 4% of the market, according to data provider Dealogic.&nbsp;

Global co-head of banking, capital markets and advisory

Gonzalo García and Anthony Gutman took over leadership of Goldman Sachs’s investment banking business in Emea in 2020. García has spent more than two decades at Goldman and was previously co-head of Latin America, co-head of global natural resources and head of investment banking for Latin America. A specialist in the infrastructure and power sectors, he has advised some of the biggest names in the industry including RWE, E.On and Centrica. Recent deals include advising ContourGlobal on its sale to KKR last year. García earned his MBA from London Business School in 1993. Prior to working in banking, he was a systems engineer for IBM Corporation, joining merchant bank Kleinwort Benson in 1993. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 and was made a partner in 2008. Gutman joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2007 and was named partner in 2012. He was previously co-head of investment banking services and co-head of UK investment banking. He has worked on some high-profile private equity deals, including advising Clayton Dubilier &amp; Rice on its £7bn takeover of Morrisons, which received regulatory approval last year. Educated at Worcester College, University of Oxford, he qualified as a corporate solicitor at Freshfields in London before starting his banking career at Citigroup. García and Gutman are both part of the European management committee at the bank, as well as holding various other internal management positions. Goldman Sachs has long held second position in the Emea investment banking league tables behind JPMorgan. It finished last year with 6.8% market share, just behind JPMorgan’s 7.6%.

Co-heads of investment banking, Emea

Gutiérrez-Orrantia - Leitão

Ignacio (Nacho) Gutiérrez-Orrantia took the reins leading Citi’s Emea investment bank in 2021 and set a target of taking the top spot in the region by 2025. Citigroup has hired around eight senior dealmakers in Emea over the past year, most recently taking on Cyril Besseddik to lead healthcare. In December, Jens Welter joined from Credit Suisse to co-lead Citi’s Emea banking, capital markets and advisory unit alongside Gutiérrez-Orrantia. Welter spent 27 years at Credit Suisse, latterly as co-head of global banking and its Emea banking and capital markets unit. Meanwhile, Athletic Bilbao fan Gutiérrez-Orrantia joined Citi in 2004 after stints at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. Before his current role, he was chair of continental Europe investment banking. Citigroup finished fifth in the Emea investment banking fee league tables with $880m in 2022 — 4.3% of the market — according to data provider Dealogic.&nbsp;

Co-heads of Emea banking, capital markets and advisory

Greg Guyett took sole charge of HSBC’s global banking and markets division in October, when his co-head Georges Elhedery moved to become the company’s chief financial officer. The 30-year JPMorgan veteran joined the UK lender in 2018 as co-head of global banking, a year or so ahead of a big strategic shift that saw HSBC refocus its investment bank on key markets such as Asia and the Middle East. For now, Guyett has put a reported move from London to Hong Kong on hold and he remains one of the most senior HSBC bankers based in the UK. He knows Asia well, however, having headed up JPMorgan’s China and Asia-Pacific dealmaking teams during his career. A key bright spot for the UK lender in 2022 was leading the Emea IPO league tables, as HSBC secured top roles on big Middle Eastern listings despite a massive drop in listings. The bank is expected to expand in the Middle East this year, but Guyett has also overseen other new initiatives, including a team focused on private placements in Emea and a new UK mid-market M&amp;A unit.&nbsp;

CEO, global banking and markets

George Holst joined BNP Paribas in 2018 after spending nearly 18 years at JPMorgan, where he latterly headed up its retail investment banking franchise. The move coincided with a fresh push at the French bank, which is gunning to be the pre-eminent European investment bank as many of its biggest local rivals have retreated in recent years. Holst created BNP Paribas’s corporate clients group in Emea, a team packed with 1,250 bankers across the region and which will help it gain more ground in areas such as M&amp;A, where the bank has typically punched below its weight. A fresh promotion in February saw Holst also become global head of sectors and advisory, a new unit aimed at pushing BNP Paribas’ investment banking ambitions globally. He told Financial News in February that the bank is “definitely doing everything we can” to be a European alternative to big Wall Street banks. “I do think corporates like and want an alternative option with a different approach.” BNP Paribas is aiming to be consistently in the top five in Emea investment banking. It secured the third spot in 2020 during the frenzy of Covid-related capital raisings, although it has since slipped down the rankings, ending 2022 in eighth place

Global head of sectors and advisory

Over the past two decades, Henrik Johnsson has risen up the ranks of Deutsche Bank to become one of its top bankers in Europe. He joined in 2002 after graduating with a degree in industrial economics from Warwick University. He spent his formative years in Deutsche’s leveraged finance team, eventually heading up the business in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, before moving to head of investment grade debt capital markets eight years later. A flurry of promotions came Johnsson’s way during Deutsche Bank’s radical overhaul, which started under chief executive Christian Sewing in 2019 and created a more streamlined investment bank. Johnsson was handed the role of head of European capital markets that year, while also being promoted to co-head of European investment banking. He was later given additional responsibility to lead its investment banking sector coverage in 2021. As Deutsche’s turnaround has reached a conclusion, it is also ramping up its ambitions in dealmaking again. The German lender now aims to rank ahead of all its European rivals in the fee league tables and has been investing in M&amp;A talent.

Global co-head of capital markets

Robert Leitão leads Rothschild’s advisory business globally, heading a team of around 3,800 bankers, and has overseen a period of expansion at the bank. It has continued to push into the US, an initiative that started around five years ago and latterly resulted in a new Miami office. It has also launched new units, such as geopolitical advisory, and expanded its equity markets solutions. Leitão graduated in 1984 with a degree in engineering from Imperial College, London, and qualified as a chartered accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell &amp; Co. He has spent 25 years at Rothschild, joining from Morgan Grenfell where he was head of UK M&amp;A. He continues to do deals, despite wearing several different hats. He has advised on more than 200 transactions during his time at the bank. Most recently, he was instrumental in the deal to enable Concordia — the Rothschild family’s holding company — to take the investment bank private, which was unveiled in February. Rothschild’s advisory unit brought in €1.8bn last year, down just 4% as bulge bracket rivals unveiled declines of up to 50% year-on-year. The bank finished third in the Emea M&amp;A fee league tables last year, a position it has held for the past five years. Leitão also serves as a director and chair of the audit committee of Manchester United Plc, the holding company for the Premier League club, and on the advisory board for Lowy Family Group, the investment company that founded Westfield Group. This long-term relationship has seen him act as lead adviser on all the group’s transactions.

Managing partner and head of global advisory

Lester - Oficialdegui

When Dominic Lester joined Jefferies in London in 2010, its European investment banking business consisted of just 50 employees. Under his watch, the business in Emea has grown to around 400 bankers and secured a place on key deals in the region. “We have now firmly established ourselves amongst the top investment banking firms, both globally and locally in Europe, and we believe that we can continue to gain market share,” Lester told Financial News in May. Last year, the bank was the sole financial adviser to cloud-based payments company Viva Wallet on the sale of a 49% stake to JPMorgan; it also worked for Carbon Clean on its $150m private fundraise. The firm has also continued to make hires, most recently building its teams in Italy, Scandinavia and France. Graduating in history and economics from Ivy League school Brown University in 1991, Lester spent the next two decades at UBS and its predecessors, working in healthcare banking before transitioning to telecoms. He is joint global head of technology investment banking at Jefferies alongside his Emea leadership role. Lester is fluent in German, French, Spanish and Italian, having lived and worked in three European countries as well as the US. In his spare time he is an avid skier and collects classic cars and contemporary art.

Emea head of investment banking

Barclays has shaken up the leadership of its investment bank over the past two years, and in October Tim Main was handed a big promotion. The former global head of Barclays’ financial institutions group took the helm of its European investment bank from Reid Marsh, who moved to become a global chair of the unit. The idea, executives said at the time, was to expand its dealmaking business in the region. Main has spent the past seven years at Barclays, joining from boutique Evercore where he was a senior managing director focused on the financial sector. He also spent two decades at JPMorgan and ran its FIG group during his final 10 years there. Barclays maintained its seventh place finish in the Emea fee league tables last year, with Main working on deals including Credit Suisse’s 4bn Swiss francs ($4.33bn) rights issue as part of its overhaul announced in October.&nbsp;

Head of banking, Emea

Lisa McGeough joined HSBC in July 2021 as the bank was in the midst of a strategic overhaul and was tasked with turning around its investment bank in Europe. It follows a tough period for the business and also comes amid a strategic refocus that will divert more capital to its key markets of Asia and the Middle East. McGeough, who led HSBC’s European global banking unit until she was promoted in Greg Guyett’s leadership shake-up last week, has spent the past two years making key hires, including senior dealmakers in the UK. She has looked to instil a renewed sense of entrepreneurial spirit at the bank, including introducing a Dragons’ Den-style competition for ideas to bolster revenue in the region. “It is also a chance to pull down silos across the bank and work out which opportunities can work across multiple businesses,” McGeough told Financial News. She previously spent 15 years at Wells Fargo, latterly heading its international business and she also led its corporate and investment bank. A rare example of a woman leading a key business at a large investment bank, McGeough has also been instrumental in promoting diversity at HSBC. She told FN she feels a responsibility to nurture female talent and call out the lack of diversity in the sector as she sees it. “It is up to all of us to be active and speak up if we think something is not appropriate. We have to be more vocal,” she told FN in 2022. HSBC was placed 11th in the Emea investment banking fee league tables last year.

Co-head of global banking coverage

Jim O’Neil joined Bank of America around three decades ago, starting out in New York and relocating to London a few years later. The naturalised UK citizen left Bank of America in 2010 to take a key role in reviving Britain’s banks in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. An already respected financial institutions banker, O’Neil became chief executive of UK Financial Investments, helping the government manage and unwind the stakes it took in Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group to bail them out during the crisis. He returned to Bank of America three years later to lead its financial institutions coverage group globally, before being handed his current role in 2017. He initially co-headed its corporate and investment bank in Emea alongside Bob Elfring, who retired in 2018 before returning to JPMorgan three years later. A classical music enthusiast, O’Neil has overseen Bank of America’s corporate and investment bank as it pushes to gain market share in the dealmaking fee league tables under its global “path to top three strategy”. Last year, Bank of America made it into the top three in Emea for the first time in 10 years, gaining two places. O’Neil has told Financial News that the aim is to “consolidate” that position in the future: “We have a consistent platform of bankers at all levels and a consistent breadth of client relationships for us to originate business from in a way we didn’t have a few years ago.” O’Neil is also executive sponsor of Bank of America’s women’s network and was given an OBE in 2014 for his services to banking.&nbsp;

Head of Emea corporate and investment banking

Javier Oficialdegui has now been at UBS for more than a decade and his rise to the top of its dealmaking unit has been relatively rapid. He joined in 2012 from Bank of America, where he was president of capital markets in Spain, to lead UBS’s coverage of financial institutions in Emea. Around five years later, Oficialdegui took charge of UBS’s investment banking business in Europe. By September 2019, he emerged with a bigger job after a sweeping overhaul of the Swiss bank’s dealmaking unit, which included combining its capital markets divisions. A keen runner, Oficialdegui now co-heads UBS’s investment banking unit globally alongside Ros L’Esperance, who is based in New York. Oficialdegui and L’Esperance now face the daunting task of integrating Credit Suisse’s dealmaking unit, following UBS’s $3.2bn acquisition of its Swiss rival on 19 March.&nbsp;

Co-head of global banking

Palmieri - Smith

This month, Societe Generale unveiled its new executive team under Slawomir Krupa, who takes over as CEO in May. Pierre Palmieri is in line to become one of two deputy chief executives alongside retail head Philippe Aymerich. For the past four years, Palmieri has led Societe General’s global banking and advisory business, which covers all of its investment banking activities. He oversees a team of 2,200 and sits on the bank’s group management committee. Palmieri started out at Societe General in 1987, working in the bank’s export finance unit, and has headed numerous units within its investment bank over the past 36 years. He remains actively involved in pitching new deals for the French bank and has overseen key areas of expansion, including its US advisory and project finance team in the UK. He has also taught finance at Paris Dauphine University and currently gives lectures at EDHEC business school.

Head of global banking and advisory

Viswas Raghavan has been a key part of JPMorgan’s investment bank in Europe since he joined in 2000 from Lehman Brothers to head up its equity-linked and derivatives capital markets business. Back then, he was known in the City as the “convertibles king”. Raghavan’s promotions have come thick and fast since then. He has led a number of large businesses including as head of debt and equity capital markets for Europe and Asia, as well as leading its ECM team globally. In 2017, however, Raghavan was handed responsibility for JPMorgan’s overall Emea business, taking the helm from Daniel Pinto, now its president and chief operating officer. In 2020, as part of a broader shake-up at JPMorgan that handed bigger roles to the next generation of dealmakers, he became global co-head of investment banking alongside US-based Jim Casey. JPMorgan has held the top spot in the Emea investment banking league tables since 2014, when it toppled Deutsche Bank. Globally, the bank brought in $6.2bn last year and remained in first place above rival Goldman Sachs, according to data provider Dealogic. Raghavan works with JPMorgan’s senior country heads across the bank and is key to driving its M&amp;A, equity capital markets and other dealmaking functions globally. A keen cricket player, he graduated in physics from the University of Mumbai. He then studied electronic engineering and computer science at Aston University — which also awarded him an honorary doctorate in science in 2016. Raghavan is a hard worker who makes high demands of his reports, colleagues have told Financial News. He has warned dealmakers at JPMorgan against complacency and underestimating the competition.

Co-global head of investment banking and Emea CEO

Sir Simon Robey has spent decades advising on some of the biggest deals in the UK. The bulk of his career was at Morgan Stanley before going it alone with fellow bankers Simon Warshaw and Philip Apostolides. The trio set up Robey Warshaw a decade ago and during that time Sir Simon has continued to work on high-profile transactions. Most recently, he was called in alongside his colleague, former Chancellor George Osborne, to advise HSBC on its rescue of Silicon Valley Bank’s UK arm, after its US parent collapsed this month. A music lover, Sir Simon is an honorary vice-president of the Royal Opera House and chairs the board of trustees of Britten Pears Arts. In 2016, he received a knighthood for services to music. It was, in fact, his passion for opera that led him to investment banking. As a student, he had ambitions of becoming a professional opera singer but while putting up concert posters, he came across a recruitment event by Lazard. He took a job at the firm because it allowed him to sing in the evenings, but soon discovered a love of banking. He told Financial News last year that despite now being in his 60s, he has no plans to retire.&nbsp;

Co-founder

Massimiliano Ruggieri was promoted as part of a leadership reshuffle at Morgan Stanley’s investment bank last year. In September, Ruggieri took charge of the unit in Emea from Simon Smith, who was promoted to lead the investment bank globally, alongside US-based Eli Gross. Ruggieri studied economics and commerce at the Sapienza University of Rome, graduating summa cum laude in 1998. He joined Merrill Lynch as an analyst, before taking up the position of managing director in debt capital markets at JPMorgan in 2000. He stayed at the bank for 10 years before joining Morgan Stanley in 2010. There he headed its Italian investment banking business. He was promoted to lead its coverage of financial sponsors clients in Emea in 2018. He has now set about shaking up Morgan Stanley’s senior ranks in Emea, recently installing Ben Grindley and Anthony Zammit as co-heads of UK investment banking. Morgan Stanley has maintained fourth place in the Emea investment banking league tables for the past two years, bringing in $921.3m in 2022.&nbsp;

Head of investment banking for Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Simon Smith was handed a major promotion as part of a reshuffle of Morgan Stanley’s top investment bankers in June last year. A 25-year veteran of the bank, Smith had already led Morgan Stanley’s European investment banking business for seven years before he was tapped to co-head it globally alongside New York dealmaker Eli Gross. The pair took over from Mark Eichorn and Susie Huang, who moved to become executive chairs. Smith studied engineering at the University of Warwick while simultaneously working at Rolls-Royce as a graduate engineering trainee. He graduated in 1994 and spent four years at City investment bank Morgan Grenfell before joining Morgan Stanley in 1998. He has held numerous senior roles during his time at the Wall Street bank, including leading its UK dealmaking business and heading up its Emea industrials franchise. Smith has served on the corporate board of Great Ormond Street Hospital for 14 years and in 2017 became a fundraising patron for the charity

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It&nbsp;follows a&nbsp;tough year for&nbsp;the&nbsp;industry, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompting huge outflows from equity funds, while rising inflation and interest rates have hit revenues and profits. There has also been increased scrutiny of the sector, particularly of ESG funds as managers get to grips with the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. Despite these challenges, the industry has remained resilient and the leaders recognised on&nbsp;FN’s&nbsp;list have continued to oversee strong businesses. Fund management is perhaps faring better than other parts of finance on diversity, with six female CEOs and two others who lead substantial businesses lines on the list. However, it still does not hit the 50/50 mark when looking at the gender split of&nbsp;leaders&nbsp;in the industry.

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Naïm Abou-Jaoudé, the incoming chief executive of New York Life Investment Management, has been the CEO of one of its subsidiaries, Candriam, for the past 16 years. During that time, the firm has bolstered its reputation as being one of the first movers in ESG, having launched its first suite of sustainable strategies in 1996. In 2014, Abou-Jaoudé helped oversee New York Life’s acquisition of Dexia Asset Management — Candriam’s former incarnation. Since then, the business has more than doubled assets under management to $160bn through a combination of new products, geographic expansion and acquisitions. Its ESG expertise held it in good stead during the market turbulence of 2022. Candriam was singled out by Morningstar as one of the top 20 asset gatherers in Europe during the first half of the year, amid strong appetite for sustainable investment funds. Despite a challenging market where other asset managers have put new hires on hold or reduced headcount, Candriam has continued to grow, with around 100 additions last year. Under Abou-Jaoudé’s leadership, Candriam decided to donate 10% of the fees it generated from certain sustainable and thematic strategies to social impact initiatives — it gave €3m in 2021 through its philanthropic arm, The Candriam Institute for Sustainable Development. He takes up his new job and becomes chair of&nbsp;Candriam’s board in May. Away from Candriam, Abou-Jaoudé is president of the European Fund and&nbsp;Asset Management Association.&nbsp;

Valérie Baudson is one of the most senior women in the European asset management sector, having become chief executive of Amundi in May 2021. She&nbsp;joined Europe’s largest asset manager in 2007 to create its exchange traded fund, index and smart beta business from scratch. She then oversaw subsidiary CPR Asset Management before taking on the top job at Amundi. Since then, Baudson has overseen several key milestones at the company. These include its landmark €825m acquisition of Lyxor in 2021, which propelled Amundi to become Europe’s second-largest ETF provider, and Amundi Technology’s acquisition the same year of Finventum, a fintech company that established Austrian robo-advisory platform Savity Vermögensverwaltung and also offers digital asset management services. Baudson spearheaded Amundi’s three-year ESG plan in December 2021, which is designed to strengthen its responsible investment offering and tackle climate change by engaging with more than 1,000 companies. As part of the plan, Amundi said it would&nbsp;develop a new net-zero range of actively managed funds while broadening ESG ETFs to account for 40% of its total offering by 2025. Baudson also led the creation of the Amundi Institute, a new business division with around 60 staff, which brings together the asset manager’s research, market strategy and asset allocation advisory activities. ﻿Outside Amundi, Baudson is a member of&nbsp;the Association Française de&nbsp;la Gestion financière, which represents and defends the interests of asset management professionals. She is also a member of Paris EUROPLACE, the organisation responsible for&nbsp;promoting the city globally as a financial hub.&nbsp;

Hortense Bioy came to fund management research in&nbsp;a roundabout way. She started her career at Societe Generale in investment banking and then spent time as a TV presenter for&nbsp;Bloomberg’s French-speaking channel. She says her current role combines the two worlds — she uses her finance background and her interviewing skills to glean information about fund managers to inform her research. Bioy joined Morningstar in 2010, covering exchange traded and index funds. She added ESG research in 2017, taking on a formal role as head of sustainability research in Emea and Asia Pacific a year later, before moving to a global role in 2021. In just a few years, there has been a lot of change in the sector as the focus on ESG has intensified. Bioy says that during that time, the definition of what passes as a sustainable investment has narrowed as investor expectations have risen. The introduction of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation has also dominated discussions on the topic. Bioy leads a team in the UK, the US and Australia that has grown from just two members a couple of years ago to seven. Alongside her managerial and research tasks, much of her time is spent speaking to the press and at conferences. A self-confessed gym addict, Bioy also has three children who take up much&nbsp;of her time outside the office. A French national, she lived in Hong Kong at the start of her career and has also spent time travelling in Asia and South America, where she learnt Spanish.

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Stephen Cohen has worked at BlackRock since 2011,&nbsp;joining the US-headquartered asset manager&nbsp;from Nomura, where he was global head&nbsp;of&nbsp;equity-linked strategy. He was named head of BlackRock’s Emea operations&nbsp;in&nbsp;April 2021, taking&nbsp;on&nbsp;leadership&nbsp;for one&nbsp;of&nbsp;its biggest regions. He&nbsp;sits on&nbsp;BlackRock’s global executive&nbsp;committee and chairs its Emea executive committee. Cohen, who is responsible for some 6,000 people across 28 offices, was previously in&nbsp;charge of BlackRock’s index investments in the&nbsp;region and oversaw its relationships with wealth&nbsp;management firms and platforms. Also under his remit was BlackRock’s iShares exchange traded funds business&nbsp;—&nbsp;the largest&nbsp;in Europe with around $676bn of assets.&nbsp;ETF assets doubled during his time&nbsp;in charge. Prior to this, Cohen led iShares’ fixed income&nbsp;index investment group. ﻿Outside work,&nbsp;Cohen has been learning to&nbsp;play drums.

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Chris Cummings is one of the most recognisable trade&nbsp;body bosses in the City. The director general of&nbsp;the Association of Independent Financial Advisers for seven years, he became the founding CEO of lobby group TheCityUK in 2010. He then took the top job at the Investment Association in 2016, where he now leads 95 people across offices in London and Brussels in engaging with senior politicians and regulators to champion the UK’s £10tn fund management sector. Not long after joining the association, Cummings said he recognised that the sector needed to “get used to&nbsp;life on the public square”, claiming that legislators would develop more interest in fund management as it grew larger. During his time at the helm, the industry has come under more scrutiny, particularly in the wake of the Neil Woodford scandal in 2019, when some 300,000 retail investors were trapped in the former star fund manager’s flagship product. The sector was also thrown into the spotlight last year following the liability-driven investments crisis, which brought some UK pension funds to the&nbsp;brink of collapse. Much of Cummings’ interaction with the government has focused on championing the&nbsp;asset management sector during the UK’s Brexit negotiations with the EU, ensuring that the industry maintains its “mission critical” relationship with key EU member states such&nbsp;as Luxembourg and the&nbsp;Republic of Ireland.

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Campbell Fleming started his career in the asset management industry during the 1990s. He was named chief executive of AssetCo in September 2021, overseeing the deals company set up by his former colleague, the fund management veteran Martin Gilbert. Australia‑born Fleming was previously head of the UK business at JPMorgan Asset Management, overseeing growth of assets from $6bn to $52bn. Then, as CEO for the Emea region at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, he more than&nbsp;doubled its assets under management. Before joining AssetCo, Fleming was global head of distribution and marketing at Standard Life Aberdeen (now Abrdn). AssetCo has experienced significant growth in the short time that Fleming has been at its helm, announcing several notable deals as part of its strategy to grow by making acquisitions. Since the business was formed, it has acquired full or majority stakes in Saracen Fund Managers, Rize ETF, River and Mercantile, Revera and SVM. Fleming sits on the boards of AssetCo, River and Mercantile, and Rize. He has also been chair and a director of social impact investment platform The Big Exchange since 2020. In addition, Fleming is on the City of&nbsp;London Corporation’s Global Investment Futures committee, which was established to promote the UK’s green and sustainable investment management offering internationally. ﻿Outside AssetCo, he works with a sustainable coffee plantation in Panama that promotes social and environmental principles locally.

If anyone can be said to be synonymous with exchange traded funds, it is Deborah Fuhr. She has been involved in the industry in Europe from inception, leading the ETF business at Morgan Stanley before moving to Barclays Global Investors in 2008, just before it was acquired by BlackRock — a move that doubled the US fund manager’s assets. There, she produced widely read&nbsp;reports detailing inflows and outflows from exchange traded products globally. She has continued that work at consultancy and data firm ETFGI, which she founded in 2012. ETFGI distributes its monthly updates on the market to approximately 10,000 people around the world and holds regular conferences — it hosted six last year, four virtual and two hybrid. Fuhr is on the boards of&nbsp;ETF providers Syntax and Renaissance, as well as&nbsp;of Women in ETFs — the ETF industry’s first women’s group, which she co-founded in 2014. Last year, she also became a board member at WisdomTree, after activist investors called for the&nbsp;addition of new&nbsp;independent&nbsp;directors.

Peter Harrison has been CEO of Schroders since 2016,&nbsp;during which time it has become the UK’s largest listed fund management group, with assets under management rising to some £773bn at the end of June 2022. Schroders has struck several deals under Harrison’s watch, one of the most notable being a 2018 partnership with Lloyds Banking Group to launch a wealth management venture. Other deals overseen by Harrison have aided its expansion into private assets, including its purchase of private equity investor Adveq in 2017 and renewable infrastructure market specialist Greencoat Capital in 2022. Last year, the firm completed the purchase of River and Mercantile’s solutions business, as part of Schroders’ push to expand its fiduciary management&nbsp;capabilities. Harrison, who is also a budding novelist, was previously global head of equities at the&nbsp;fund manager, having rejoined from RWC Partners in 2013.&nbsp;He started his career at Schroders, before working at various investment managers.

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