Deutsche to boost M&A teams in South Africa

DEUTSCHE Bank is expanding its mergers and acquisitions business in South Africa, says the German bank’s chief executive for South Africa Herman Bosman.

"We definitely see more potential for the segment," Bosman said. "We want to enlarge our M&A teams," he said in an interview at the World Bank conference in Istanbul.

M&A constitutes about 20 per cent of Deutsche Bank’s South Africa business, with the remainder coming from equity and debt markets, Bosman said. M&A activity in the real estate and retail sectors in South Africa is picking up in particular. "We want to be a part of this momentum," Bosman said.

In an earlier role as Head of Corporate Finance at Rand Merchant Bank, Bosman was previously involved with many of South Africa‘s leading M&A deals.

In August, Deutsche Bank snatched four top executives from UBS, Macquarie Group and Goldman Sachs to build up its overall South African business.

Including M&A and other business, total group revenue for 2009 for the bank’s South African operations should reach EUR200 million, with EUR160 million already earned so far for the year, Bosman said.

Bosman expects annual revenue growth of 10 per cent to15 per cent for the South African unit, which will be accomplished organically and will include enlarging the bank’s staff in South Africa and offering new products. But, he added: "No acquisitions are planned".

Anshu Jain, Deutsche Bank’s head of global markets, sees South Africa as one of the bank’s core markets and chief executive Josef Ackermann and other top executives regularly visit the South Africa.

Source: The Austrailan News

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