This Strengthens KingsRock’s Business, across Geographies and Industries
KingsRock Advisors, LLC (“KingsRock”), an independent global advisory firm, announced today the addition of several new Senior Hires and Senior Advisors. 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 Venky Vishwanathan as our new Managing Partner, based in London and Mumbai. Venky is also a long time Deutsche Bank alumni who was Head of Deutsche Bank Asia-Pacific Capital Markets & Treasury Solutions, and Co-Head of Asia Corporate Finance. Most recently he was the founding CEO of the Investment Banking & Capital Markets business for the InCred Group in India, and is currently Founder and CEO of InCred Insight – an India/UK based technology advisory platform. He was previously also Head of Financial Institutions Debt Capital Markets at DB in Europe.
With Venky coming on board we anticipate further strategic announcements enhancing our franchise in EMEA, the Asia Pacific region and Middle East.
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:
Gil Ottensoser New York- Gil, also a Deutsche Bank alumni, has been engaged in the Capital Markets and specifically the SPAC asset class for over 25 years. He ran the global sales and distribution efforts within Deutsche Bank’s Equity Division. In that capacity Gil has deep experience in sourcing, capital raising, and execution in all dynamics around the product, and we are excited to be leveraging the KingsRock platform with his efforts to launch and lead our new principal SPAC program.
- Philipp is a distinguished financial strategist with over 25 years of experience, renowned for his profound expertise in M&A, FinTech, and Banking. He was Head of the Deutsche Bank Group’s own Corporate M&A Department for a decade, during which he executed 100s of M&A transactions across a variety of sectors and on all continents. He managed portfolios in venture capital & private equity and founded a thriving US business of the European FinTech unicorn Raisin. Apart from leading the M&A activities at KingsRock he is part of the SPAC management team.
- Quentin is a senior financial services executive and trusted advisor with over thirty years of leadership across global markets and equity capital markets. He has held senior roles at UBS and Deutsche Bank in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, and London, advising top global asset managers on complex financings, capital raisings, and cross-border M&A. He was a senior Managing Director in the Deutsche Bank Equity Capital Markets department for about a decade. He most recently served as a senior executive at Tetragon Financial Group, a $40 billion alternative asset manager listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Expansion of our Global Network of Senior Advisors
We are also pleased to announce that we added a number of additional Senior Advisors to our 120 Senior Advisors from approximately 50 countries around the world. 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.
