Deutsche Bank Names Thomas Piquemal Global Head of M&A -- Update
16 May 2016 - 9:20PM
Dow Jones News
By Jenny Strasburg
Deutsche Bank AG said Monday it has hired former Electricité de
France SA finance chief Thomas Piquemal as global head of mergers
and acquisitions, starting this week.
Mr. Piquemal, who resigned from the French utility known as EDF
nearly three months ago, will be based in Paris and report to Jeff
Urwin, Deutsche Bank's New York-based head of corporate and
investment banking.
The bank's top global deal-advisory job has been vacant since
June 2015, when Henrik Aslaksen left Deutsche Bank. Last month he
joined Credit Suisse Group AG in a senior investment-banking
role.
Mr. Piquemal had been EDF finance chief since 2010. He
previously was finance chief at waste- and water-management company
Veolia Environnement SA from 2009 to 2010, and before that was a
partner at investment bank Lazard Frères, where he worked from 1995
to 2009.
The 47-year-old will also become chairman of corporate and
investment banking in France.
Mr. Urwin in a Deutsche Bank statement cited Mr. Piquemal's
seven years in top finance jobs and nearly 15 years advising
companies and their boards on corporate finance, underscoring the
German lender's investment in the deal-advisory business.
Write to Jenny Strasburg at jenny.strasburg@wsj.com
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