Roland Schmidt joins Macquarie Capital in Germany

Macquarie Capital today announced the appointment of Roland Schmidt as Managing Director within Macquarie Capital’s German Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Equity Capital Markets (ECM) business. Schmidt strengthens Macquarie Capital’s growing European team, joining the Frankfurt office on 1 September 2011.

Roland Schmidt has 14 years experience in investment banking and corporate finance. Before joining Macquarie he was Chief Operating Officer and member of the management board of Lazard & Co in Frankfurt. Prior to this, Schmidt worked for seven years in UBS’ M&A team in London and Frankfurt and was previously a member of KPMG’s Corporate Finance department. Schmidt specialises in transactions in the chemical and utilities sectors, having managed numerous M&A deals including the acquisition of Steag by a consortium of public utilities, the takeover of Ciba by BASF as well as Bayer’s disinvestment of H.C.Starck to Advent/Carlyle.

“We are pleased to have Roland Schmidt, an experienced corporate finance professional, join our team. His expertise and his network in the chemical and utilities sectors will significantly support the continued expansion of our German advisory platform“, said Rainer Langel, Head of Macquarie Capital in Germany.

Macquarie’s Germany activities comprise Macquarie Capital and Macquarie Securities the equity derivatives, cash equities sales and research businesses acquired from Sal. Oppenheim - Macquarie Funds Group’s structure product business and asset management of investments made by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, including Thyssengas and Techem.