Nomura announced today the appointment of a new Managing Director and Head of Corporate Finance, Germany. Dr Wolfgang Danner joins from HVB (Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG) where he was Managing Director of Corporate Coverage & Financing.
Dr. Danner had been with HVB for a year. Before that he spent five years at Citigroup and eight years at B. Metzler and Metzler Corporation. His responsibilities at all institutions were to originate transactions for mid and large cap corporates in Germany. He has considerable experience of corporate finance and M&A advisory work as well as equity and debt capital markets. He covered a broad range of sectors but has particular strengths in automotive, chemicals, industrials and capital markets.
This is a newly created role and follows the recent announcements that Nomura has created a new German Capital Markets team and that Christian Thun-Hohenstein, formerly European Co-Head of Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank, has been appointed Co-Head of Investment Banking for Nomura in Europe.