Robert Auerbach

Robert Auerbach MBA, INSEAD has over 16 years experience in raising equity capital, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, privatizations, private equity and business operational management. He has a strong network of contacts in the City of London with infrastructure funds, financial institutions and private equity houses. From 1993 - 2003 Robert Auerbach worked for N.M. Rothschild & Sons Limited in the Investment Banking and Equity Capital Markets divisions where he advised on a number of large scale privatizations, IPO's and secondary offerings including, inter alia: advising the French government on the US$2.3bn IPO of Renault and on the sale of its residual holdings in TOTAL and Elf Aquitaine by way of bought deals; advising Deutsche Telekom on its US$20bn IPO; The Kingdom of Denmark on the privatization of Tele Danmark; Swisscom on its privatization; The Russian government on the privatization of Svyasinvest and RAO UES; Ceske Radiokommunikace on its secondary equity offering and The Belgian government on the privatization of Distrigaz.

In addition he has advised clients in the engineering, electronics, defence and technology industries on mergers and acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, joint-ventures and strategic business development. Notable transactions included advising Spirent on its US$1.6bn acquisition of Hekimian Laboratories and associated £525m rights issue; De La Rue on the £200m disposal of its smart card business and the sale of its 50% shareholding in De La Rue Giori; British Telecommunications on the US$236m sale of its aeronautical and maritime division and Rolls-Royce on a number of acquisitions and disposals. From 2001 he managed Rothschild's Technology Investment Banking group, based in London.

Robert Auerbach was the Managing Director of Bryanston Kenmore Leisure Fund, a private equity backed fund focused on acquiring infrastructure assets in the leisure sector including holiday parks and hotels.