Moves: DC Advisory takes Alantra team for Austrian office

Daiwa Securities

21/05/2024 07:00

By Emma-Victoria Farr
       FRANKFURT, May 21 (Reuters) - Mid-market investment bank
DC Advisory on Tuesday opened an office in Vienna as part of its
international expansion, hiring a team of Alantra bankers to
launch the effort, DC Advisory told Reuters.
    The opening of DC Advisory Austria will be led by managing
directors Klaus Vukovich and Alexandra Nagle.
    The pair previously worked together as co-founders of
Alantra's Austrian and central and eastern European business.
Luka Simoneti and Lucas Bojdunyk will also move over from
Alantra as part of the team.
    Vukovich and Nagle also worked together before at UniCredit,
as global co-heads of corporate finance advisory and the
consumer retail practice respectively.
    DC Advisory has around 700 bankers in 24 locations globally,
following significant investment from parent company Daiwa
Securities Group  8601.T . 
    As part of its recent expansion, DC Advisory acquired IBI
Corporate Finance in Ireland in November 2023, launched a
Benelux office in 2022, and opened DC Advisory Thailand in 2021.
    "We've gained a well established group with a strong
reputation in the market  ...  at a time where we're seeing
increasing M&A opportunities in the regions for our global
private equity and corporate clients," said Stefan Jaecker, CEO,
DC Advisory Germany and regional head. 
    Alantra declined to comment. 

 (Reporting by Emma-Victoria Farr, editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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