Our People: Corporate Finance
David Davies – Head of Corporate Finance
David joined KBC Peel Hunt in 1996. He’s provided capital markets and M&A advice to numerous clients, primarily in the real estate, construction and support services sectors, and has been head of corporate finance since June 2006.
David studied Modern History at Cambridge University. He then joined Touche Ross & Co (now Deloitte) and qualified as a chartered accountant, before transferring to the corporate finance department in 1987.
david.davies@kbcpeelhunt.com
Julian Blunt – Director, Corporate Finance
Julian joined KBC Peel Hunt in 1995 and has over ten years’ Corporate Finance experience. He has advised clients on a wide variety of transactions, and is now a director in our Corporate Finance department, specialising in the support services sector.
Julian graduated from Reading University with a degree in music. He also has an MBA from Bradford University.
julian.blunt@kbcpeelhunt.com
Anthony Brennan – Head of Debt Advisory
Anthony joined KBC Peel Hunt in October 2008 with responsibility for the firm’s Debt Advisory practice. He has over eighteen years’ experience in the European leveraged and acquisition debt markets having served in a number of senior positions in both origination and debt capital markets at Bank of America, Commerzbank and ABNAMRO. Anthony holds a Masters Degree in Economics.
anthony.brennan@kbcpeelhunt.com
James Britton – Managing Director, Corporate Finance
James joined in 2003 to develop our financial services and M&A practice. He has 25 years Corporate Finance experience including the last 10 years as a financial services specialist. He was previously a Managing Director at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, which he joined in 1984, and at Fox-Pitt, Kelton, which he joined in 1997.
He qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte Haskins & Sells in 1980 and has a Maths degree from Queen’s College Oxford.
james.britton@kbcpeelhunt.com
Capel Irwin – Director, Corporate Finance
Capel joined KBC Peel Hunt in 1995, and has 14 years’ capital markets experience, providing Corporate Finance advice in the small and mid cap sector, including flotations, takeovers, restructuring, acquisitions and disposals.
Capel is an Economics graduate and started his career as a corporate solicitor.
capel.irwin@kbcpeelhunt.com
Jonathan Marren – Director, Corporate Finance
Jonathan joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2000 and is a director in the corporate finance department. His focus is mainly on the energy sector with clients in numerous jurisdictions across the Alternative Energy and Oil & Gas sectors. He has advised on over 50 transactions in a variety of fields in the last seven years.
Jonathan studied Mathematics at University College, Durham. He then qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen before moving into corporate finance.
jonathan.marren@kbcpeelhunt.com
James Steel – Director, Corporate Finance
James joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2009 and is exclusively focused on the healthcare sector. He was most recently a senior banker within Piper Jaffray’s European healthcare team where he completed a broad range of transactions for both public and private companies and also in the past worked for Robert W. Baird and Credit Lyonnais Securities. James’ core focus is on buy-side and sell-side M&A mandates as well as small and mid-cap public company advisory work, in particular IPOs, secondary offerings, demergers and takeovers.
james.steel@kbcpeelhunt.com
Alex Vaughan – Director, Corporate Finance
Alex joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2007 to focus exclusively on the Real Estate sector. He has over 10 years of corporate finance experience in the City and previously had worked at Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers.
alex.vaughan@kbcpeelhunt.com
Guy Wiehahn – Director, Corporate Finance
Guy has specialised predominantly in the financial services sector, and has had exposure to transactions including M&A and both primary and secondary capital raisings on AIM and the Full List. He joined KBC at the beginning of 2007. Prior to joining KBC he worked at both Numis Securities and Thomas Weisel Partners. Guy has a degree in Commerce and a postgraduate degree in Accounting from the university of Cape Town. He completed his articles in the financial institutions team at Deloitte & Touche in Johannesburg in 1999.
guy.wiehahn@kbcpeelhunt.com
David Anderson – Assistant Director, Corporate Finance
David joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2003 and has over 7 years’ corporate finance experience. David started his career at UBS Warburg (now UBS) in 2001 working in the Mid Market Group of the Investment Banking Division for two years. David has an equal focus on mergers & acquisitions and capital markets providing advice to mid and small cap Official List, AIM and private corporates and has advised on and executed numerous transactions across a wide variety of industries including real estate, technology, renewable energy, biotech, support services and industrials. David graduated with an honours degree from the University of Bristol in 2000.
david.anderson@kbcpeelhunt.com
Vijay Barathan – Associate, Corporate Finance
Vijay joined KBC Peel Hunt in November 2009 having previously worked for the highly rated healthcare corporate finance team at Piper Jaffray. Prior to this he worked as a medical doctor in the NHS for 3 years in various surgical specialities in and around London hospitals. Vijay has a MBBS and BSc in Developmental Neurobiology from Guy’s King’s and St Thomas Medical School, London.
vijay.barathan@kbcpeelhunt.com
Simon Brown – Associate, Corporate Finance
Simon joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2009, having spent several years in corporate finance at Landsbanki Securities. He has advised on over 30 public company transactions including IPOs, secondary issues, M&A and convertible bonds. Simon is a graduate of Worcester College, Oxford.
simon.brown@kbcpeelhunt.com
Matt Goode – Assistant Director, Corporate Finance
Matt joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2004, having previously worked in corporate finance for 3 years at Ernst & Young and has 6 years’ Corporate Finance experience. He has a degree from Bristol University, as well as a Securities Institute Diploma.
Matt has worked on a full range of transactions, including flotations, takeovers, restructurings, acquisitions, secondary fundraisings and disposals. Matt now focuses on the leisure and consumer sectors.
matt.goode@kbcpeelhunt.com
Daniel Harris – Associate, Corporate Finance
Daniel has an Economics degree from the London School of Economics, and worked as a corporate lawyer in Westminster law firm Bircham Dyson Bell for several years.
In 2005, Daniel crossed over into Corporate Finance joining the Capital Markets Team at Grant Thornton before moving to KBC Peel Hunt in 2007 where he specialises in small to mid-cap IPO and public company mergers and acquisitions work.
daniel.harris@kbcpeelhunt.com
Valerie He – Analyst, Corporate Finance
Valerie joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2008. She began her career in sales/marketing in KBC’s Asian Fund of Funds business and had previously interned at Goldman Sachs, Private Wealth Management. She has a degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Warwick.
valerie.he@kbcpeelhunt.com
Richard Kauffer – Assistant Director, Corporate Finance
Richard has worked within Corporate Finance for the last 7 years and has extensive experience covering IPOs on the Official List and on AIM, secondary fund raisings, mergers, acquisitions and Rule 3 advisory roles.
He holds an Economics degree from the LSE and a post graduate qualification in law. He begun his career in the House of Commons as a researcher to a Member of Parliament.
richard.kauffer@kbcpeelhunt.com
Oliver Stratton – Associate, Corporate Finance
Oliver joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2006 and has since worked on several public company takeovers, flotations and secondary fundraisings in a range of sectors. He began his career in 2003 at Allen & Overy and qualified as a solicitor in 2005. While there, he worked on a variety of M&A, equity-capital market, real estate and leverage finance transactions. He went on secondment to Goldman Sachs International in 2005. Oliver holds a degree in Law from Sheffield University and a diploma in Legal Practice with distinction from Nottingham Law School. He also holds the Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Corporate Finance Qualification and is an associate member of the Securities and Investment Institute.
oliver.stratton@kbcpeelhunt.com
Amy Hill
Amy joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2006, and is part of the team responsible for providing support to our Corporate Finance department.
amy.hill@kbcpeelhunt.com
Emma Day
Emma joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2008, and is part of the team responsible for providing support to our Corporate Finance department.
emma.day@kbcpeelhunt.com
Sherri Smith
Sherri joined KBC Peel Hunt in 2007, and is part of the team responsible for providing support to our Corporate Finance department.
sherri.smith@kbcpeelhunt.com
