Jonathan Rowland will
be speaking at 14.15
in the Working
session - Banking & Credit: relations and renegotiations

Mr Rowland has 18 years investment banking, capital markets & finance experience and prior to joining Citi in 2004 he was Managing Director and Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage & Acquisition Finance at CIBC World Markets. In his five years at CIBC, Mr Rowland was instrumental in establishing the firm as one of the leading arrangers of Leveraged Finance for buy-out transactions within the European market (ranked in the top 3 in both 2001 & 2002 by IFR).

Mr Rowland was also one of 10 leading market professionals selected for Euroweek’s European Leveraged Finance “dream team” in 2004. Prior to CIBC Mr Rowland was Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage at Barclays Capital in New York, having previously been a Director at BZW in London and a senior member of the Specialised Financing division at HSBC (formerly Samuel Montagu).

Mr Rowland’s extensive transaction experience includes numerous debt arranging and advisory assignments, including several landmark European LBOs such as Hyatt Regency, Tommy Hilfiger, Elis, Kappa Packaging and Yell, as well as the IPOs of Safestore, 3i Infrastructure and Telecity. Mr Rowland also sat on the Advisory Board of Invest industrial, a leading Italian private equity firm, from 2002 to 2004.

Mr Rowland was named as one of 100 Rising Stars of the International Capital Markets by Financial News in 2006.

Mr Rowland received a BA (Hons) in Economic & Political Development from Exeter University, he also holds the Securities Institute Diploma and is a qualified accountant.