David Anderson
David Anderson has worked in the investment banking community since 1983 . His experience includes working at Lazard for 17 years; running the corporate finance department at Vodafone; broking and investment banking at Cazenove (now JP Morgan Cazenove) and most recently setting up his own advisory business. He has worked extensively on public company transactions.
He graduated from Oxford University with a first class degree in Mathematics and Philosophy and joined Lazard in London in 1983 after 5 years in the Royal Green Jackets, a British Army infantry regiment, where he served in the UK, Hong Kong and Ulster.
At Lazard he worked on the full range of investment banking activities including public company mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and capital raising. Key clients during that period included FirstGroup, now the largest UK transport business, BAT, Pearson, Diageo, BSkyB, MCI and GE Capital. In 1998 he moved to Asia to run the Lazard Asian business with a territory that ran from Mumbai to Sydney including South Korea and Japan and has extensive experience of Asian businesses.
In 2000 he moved to Vodafone UK to run their M & A activities during which period he managed asset sales in Austria, Korea and Italy and major acquisitions in Spain and Japan, combined with a £3.5 billion capital raising.
In 2002 he returned to the City to join Cazenove (now J P Morgan Cazenove) working primarily with TMT companies such as Cable & Wireless and Reed but again focused particularly on public transactions including the sale of Manchester United to the Glazer Family, ITNet to Serco and TTP Communications to Motorola.
He set up his own advisory business EPL Advisory in mid-2008 providing advice and execution ability for mergers and acquisitions and more general advice to boards on strategy, governance, capital structure , capital raising and disclosure obligation. He is a senior adviser to India Advisory Partners, a specialist financial advisory business focused on providing advice to international companies wishing to invest in India for the first time or those seeking in some way to develop their existing Indian operations.
Married with three children he is Chairman of Frank Buttle Trust which provides grant aid to children and young people in need and Chairman of Midhurst Rother College, an Academy school in West Sussex.