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Wednesday, 10. March 2010

History

More than 15 years Close Brothers GmbH in Europe 
 

1991 Established under the name of Quadriga Finanz by Hambros Bank, Credit National and Ernst Freiherr von Freyberg. The firm is headquartered in Berlin and focuses on advising the Treuhandanstalt on privatisations.
 
1992 Sandrine Richard joins the company.
 
 
1994 The company is renamed Freyberg Hambros and moves to Frankfurt am Main. Providing advice to medium-sized companies on M&A transactions assumes increasing importance.
 
1998 UK-based Close Brothers Group acquires a 51% stake - Freyberg Close Brothers is created. Private equity companies become a new and important customer group.
 
1998 Jeffery Perkins joins the company.
 
 
2002 Dr. Wolfgang Kazmierowski joins the company.
 
 
2003 Gerd Bieding joins the company and expands the Debt Advisory / Financial Restructuring unit. 
 
 
2005 The company changes its name to Close Brothers.
 
 
2006 Sascha Pfeiffer strengthens Close Brothers' management as a partner.
 
   
2007 Close Brothers GmbH moved to new business premises located at Neue Mainzer Straße 1, Frankfurt, to provide an infrastructural basis for the ongoing growth of the business as well as the personnel expansion
 
Dr. Burkhard Weber joins the company and strengthens the management team
 
   
 2008 Close Brothers AG, headquartered in Zurich, is founded.
Dr. Jürg Glesti joins the company as a partner and heads the team in Switzerland
   
 2009

Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Limited (Daiwa SMBC Europe), the European subsidiary of leading Japanese investment bank Daiwa Securities SMBC Co. Ltd. (Daiwa SMBC) acquires Close Brothers Corporate Finance, London.

Sven Guckelberger joins as a managing director for the Debt Advisory and Financial Restructuring Business

Close Brothers GmbH establishes a branch office in Warsaw, Poland. Tod Kersten joins the company and heads the office in Poland
 
Today Close Brothers GmbH is one of the leading, independent corporate finance adviser for medium-sized companies in German-speaking (D/A/CH) and Central Eastern Europe (CEE) with more than 40 employees in Frankfurt am Main, Zurich and Warsaw, Poland.