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Keith R. Harris PhD is a London-based investment banker and financier with a 25-year career as a senior corporate finance and takeover advisor, having held senior executive positions at leading institutions Morgan Grenfell, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Apax Partners and HSBC Investment Bank. He is a private equity investor with interests in varied private equity holdings in financials, media and sport. He was previously Chairman of the Football League and director of Wembley National Stadium Ltd., owner of Wembley Stadium. ==Background== Dr Harris has advised on hundreds of debt and equity issues and complex cross border transactions as a senior executive at leading global banks, as well as acting for noteworthy clients and high profile transactions like the £13.5bn hostile bid for British American Tobacco by Kerry Packer, Sir James Goldsmith and Lord Rothschild. Harris continues to act for rich families from the Middle East, Russia and India on sport and media related acquisitions. Dr Harris was President of Morgan Grenfell Inc. (now owned by Deutsche Bank) and was the youngest ever director at the British bank. Morgan, Grenfell & Co. was a leading London-based investment bank regarded as one of the oldest and once most influential British merchant banks. The bank was founded by the American George Peabody in 1838 as the UK branch of his US bank which subsequently became known as J.P. Morgan & Co.〔Burk, Kathleen〕 In 1904, Edward Grenfell was made a partner in the firm, and, in 1909, it underwent a change of name to become Morgan, Grenfell and Company. Dr Harris spent eight years at Morgan Grenfell. Harris departed the English firm for an American investment bank, accepting a position as managing director and Head of International Corporate Finance at the American firm Drexel Burnham Lambert. Upon the demise of Drexel Burnham, Mr Harris moved to the private equity sector. From 1990 to 1994 Mr Harris served as Chief Executive of Apax Partners Worldwide LLP (formerly known as Apax Partners Ltd.). Apax is a private equity asset management firm founded by American Alan Patricof and Sir Ronald Cohen. Harris was recruited by Sir William Purves, then Chairman of HSBC Group, to HSBC Investment Bank PLC where from 1994 to 1999 he served as global Chief Executive. At HSBC, Harris oversaw a staff of approximately 13,500 in forty-six countries. Under his leadership, HSBC Investment Bank achieved an average annual return on equity of more than 20% with over 30% in some years, and reported over £400 million in annual profit. In 1999, Keith left HSBC to pursue a number of interests as chairman or non-executive director of a range of public and private companies including Halfords plc. He became Executive Chairman of Seymour Pierce and an investor beginning in 2003 when he organised a buyout group that acquired the UK investment bank founded in 1803. Mr. Harris brought his sport M&A practice to the bank and ran the advisory business through the bank making it the leading strategic financial adviser to top-level professional football teams, advising on dozens of acquisitions, including Chelsea, Newcastle, West Ham, Aston Villa, Fulham and Manchester City, among others. Seymour Pierce, now a part of American securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald, had been the number one ranked investment bank in London for LSE AIM listed companies.〔(Hemscott AIM Rankings as published by the Financial Times )〕 The firm had been a registered Nominated Advisor, or NOMAD, with authority delegated by the London Stock Exchange to regulate and supervise companies admitted to trade publicly on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) segment of the LSE. Until its take over by Cantor, Seymour Pierce had been the primary regulator for approximately 80 public companies on AIM. Mr Harris also has been active in the insurance sector, serving since 1999 as a non-executive director of Benfield Group Plc., a reinsurance intermediary and capital advisory business, until its $1.75 billion acquisition by Aon Re Global in 2009 (NYSE: AON). He joined the Board of Cooper Gay (Holdings) Ltd as non-executive director in July 2009 and was appointed as non executive director of Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford Ltd in 2010, on completion of the combined Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford group. 〔(Cooper Gay director )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith R. Harris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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