Barclays Appoints Jim Rossman as Global Head of Shareholder Advisory
December 07 2022 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Barclays announces the appointment of Jim Rossman as Global Head
of Shareholder Advisory. Mr. Rossman will be based in New York and
report to Gary Posternack and Ihsan Essaid, Global Co-Heads of
M&A at Barclays.
Mr. Rossman joins Barclays from Lazard, where he was global head
of the Shareholder Advisory group, which he founded in 2013, and
also served as the head of the renewable energy team in the Power,
Energy & Infrastructure group. Prior to joining Lazard, he was
a senior equity capital markets banker at Lehman Brothers and a
corporate lawyer at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in their
Brussels and New York offices. Mr. Rossman has also held senior
equity capital markets roles at both HSBC and Macquarie, where he
founded and led origination and syndicate teams for the
Americas.
Mr. Rossman advises private and public companies on shareholder
activism, raid defense, strategic investor relations, corporate
governance, evaluation of strategic alternatives and capital
allocation, and capital raising. He has over 30 years of experience
as both an investment banker and a corporate lawyer, and works with
companies globally. Mr. Rossman is a leading expert on the
responsibilities of public company directors and the implementation
of best practices in the context of preparing for and overseeing
responses to hostile shareholder actions.
Gary Posternack, Global Co-Head of M&A at Barclays, said:
“Jim has unparalleled knowledge and experience in the activism
defense and shareholder advisory spaces, and these attributes
combined with his deep roster of key relationships will enable him
to deliver great value to our clients. We look forward to working
together to help our clients appropriately respond to investor and
regulatory dynamics and to successfully navigate market challenges
and situations.”
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by
business, by different types of customer and client, and geography.
Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations
around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global
corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our
service company which provides technology, operations and
functional services across the Group. For further information about
Barclays, please visit our website home.barclays.
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