This Strengthens KingsRock's Business, across Geographies and Industries
NEW YORK and LONDON and STOCKHOLM and DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, July 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- KingsRock Advisors, LLC ("KingsRock"), an independent global advisory firm, announced today the formation of a new Advisory Board, a series of new Senior Hires, additional Senior Advisors joining us, and an inaugural Capital Raise. This expansion aims to accelerate the growth of KingsRock's capital solutions and corporate finance business, across industries, geographies, and capital structures.
We are pleased to welcome the following Senior Banking Executives who have agreed to serve as Members of our new KingsRock Advisory Board:
| Dr. Josef Ackermann | Zurich, former Chairman of the Management Board, Deutsche Bank | |
| Fred Brettschneider | New York, former Head of Deutsche Bank Global Markets Americas | |
| Yassine Bouhara | Dubai, CEO Tell Group, former Global Head of Deutsche Bank Global Equities | |
| Kevin Parker | New York, CEO SICM, former CEO of Deutsche Asset Management | |
| Bernardo Parnes | Sao Paolo, CEO of One Partners, former CEO of Deutsche Bank Latin America | |
| Jon Vaccaro | Darien, Founder V20 Group, former Global Head of Deutsche Bank CRE | |
| Seth Waugh | Palm Beach, former CEO of Deutsche Bank Americas, former Chairman of PGA | |
We are pleased to welcome the following Senior Investment Bankers who have joined KingsRock recently in the US and EMEA as Managing Directors, with further expansion planned:
| David Barcus | New York, former BNP and Raymond James | |
| John Doyamis | New York, former EBG, and Bear Stearns | |
| Leo-Hendrik Greve | Amsterdam, former ING, Citi and MS | |
| Rony Jawhar | Dubai, former Arqaam and Deutsche Bank | |
| Bray Kelly | New York, former JBK Capital and UBS | |
| Joe Lovrics | Madrid, former Societe General, Citi, and BNP | |
| Bill Miller | New York, Commerce Street, TPG Sixth Street, Citi | |
| Hans Narberhaus | Madrid, former Deutsche Bank | |
| Laurent Quelin | London, former Chenavari, and CS | |
| Francois-Louise Ricard | Paris, former Groupe Caisse des Depots, MS and SG | |
| Jorge de los Rios | Madrid, former Santander, S&P and Lehman | |
| Mike Turnbull | London, former StormHarbour, BAML and MS | |
| Andrew Whittaker | New York, Lazard, GSAM and Lehman |
In Q2 we were also joined by Gregor Bates, Associate, London, and Analysts Matt Farrell, Nikita Spivakov, and Tim O'Callaghan in New York.
We also welcome George Parker, New York, as Senior Advisor for Operations.
This team's decades of investment banking experience across Origination, Advisory, Capital Markets, Structuring, and Leveraged Finance should help propel our growth and strategy to originate, structure, and distribute private capital markets transactions and provide strategic advisory services. Our goal is to further strengthen KingsRock's ability to serve issuer clients and the private credit, special situations and private equity investor universe with ever more tailor-made capital solutions and investment opportunities.
Expansion of our Global Network of Senior Advisors
We are also pleased to announce that we now have 120 (one hundred and twenty) Senior Advisors from approximately 50 countries around the world. Each is a truly Independent Advisor with his or her own interest and focus, some with companies that we have partnered with, etc. Many of these advisors comprised the most senior leadership of Deutsche Bank and oversaw a wide range of functions, from CEO and six other former Management Board Members, to Country Heads and Divisional Heads of M&A, Capital Markets, and Heads of Sales, Coverage, Industry Groups, Economists, Operations, etc.
This unique Global Network of former colleagues and friends as our Senior Advisors allows KingsRock access to key decision makers nearly anywhere in the world, spanning companies, institutional investors, financial institutions, and the public sector. It also offers mutual benefits in deal making through origination, execution, and distribution, be it a cross-border M&A transaction or bespoke institutional capital raising deal.
We are also pleased to Announce a successful close of our inaugural third-party capital raise for KingsRock Advisors LLC, to support our expansion and elevate our investment banking boutique, with further strategic growth planned. We thank all of our investors for their strong support.
"We are excited to welcome our new Senior Advisory Board Members, our new Managing Directors, Associate and Analyst colleagues, and our Senior Advisors network to KingsRock as we continue to expand the global reach of our capital solutions business. Together with our inaugural capital raise to boost and increase the visibility of our platform, successfully concluded in Q2, we are truly thrilled with the progress our young firm is making to serve our clients and support our ambitious growth. In the near term, we will share more details about our expansion across our financial services offering," said Håkan Wohlin, Founder & Managing Partner, and Louis Jaffe, Co-Founder & Managing Partner.
KingsRock has already announced and closed several significant transactions in 2025. Angel Oak's recently announced sale to Brookfield, where KingsRock Advisors served as the Exclusive Financial Advisor to Angel Oak, is indeed a landmark transaction. On April 1st, 2025, Brookfield Asset Management and Angel Oak to Entered into Strategic Partnership. KingsRock Securities LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of KingsRock Advisors LLC, acted as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Angel Oak Companies.
About KingsRock:
KingsRock Advisors, LLC headquartered at 900 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022, is an independent global advisory firm, with securities offered by KingsRock Securities LLC, a FINRA member firm and SIPC, as well as KingsRock Advisors UK Ltd and KingsRock Advisors Europe AB, both wholly owned subsidiaries of KingsRock Advisors LLC.
Founded in 2020, KingsRock comprises a team of approximately 40 full time professionals who advise on a wide range of private capital markets transactions including debt, hybrid, equity and M&A covering structures from vanilla to highly structured. The team collectively has worked on thousands of transactions across various industry sectors worldwide. Clients include private equity and private credit firms, corporations, financial institutions, government-related entities, and institutional investors.
KingsRock Advisors offers the experience and global reach of a large firm, combined with the structural agility and creativity of a boutique. An independent advisory firm with a global network that provides unconflicted strategic and financial advisory services, along with innovative capital solutions and special situations. The firms' bankers excel in complex transactions and deliver swift results often where large banks and traditional sources of financing do not have the ability to engage. KingsRock advisors operates across all major industry sectors and is supported by a global network of 120 independent Senior Advisors across 50 countries, who bring decades of deal making experience.
Disclaimer:
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