Investment Banking

Angus graduated in History from Cambridge University and subsequently worked for Lazard Brothers, Smith New Court and Merrill Lynch. During his career he worked in London, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong, latterly as Head of Capital Markets and Financing for Merrill Lynch in Asia. He joined Noble in 2006 and was appointed chief executive in 2007. A driving force in the merger with Execution, Angus is Deputy Chief Executive of Execution Noble Ltd and also holds a non executive directorship of JPMorgan Elect plc.

A former Captain in the Light Infantry, James worked for Capel Cure Myers before becoming a founder of Beeson Gregory Ltd.  Since 1994, James has been involved in all forms of Corporate Broking from pitching for new business to execution of IPOs and transactions of secondary market deals.  He has extensive experience of managing UK and European small corporate deals from $10m to $200m covering all sectors.  James joined Noble in August 2003 and is a director in EXecution Noble’s Equity Capital Markets team

Peter joined Execution Noble from Merrill Lynch where he initially headed up the Pan-European Small & Mid Cap sales desk before moving to Investment Banking to lead the Small & Mid Cap Corporate Broking department. Over this period Peter led a variety of IPOs, secondary fundraisings, M&A and P2P transactions for corporate clients including Punch Taverns, Premier Foods, Debenhams, Halfords, Body Shop and many more. In 2007, he moved to New York to start the Equity Advisory Content Group. Within 12 months, the Sector Specialist Sales team was ranked #1 in the Insititutional Investor All America Sales Survey for Industry Specific Sales Group across Wall Street. Before Merrills, Peter spent four years at Charterhouse Securities in the team ranked #1 in the Reuters Small Cap survey.

After graduating in PPE from Oxford University, John qualified as a barrister in 1984. He joined Hill Samuel Merchant Bank and became Head of Corporate Finance and a member of the Bank Executive Committee. The team moved to Close Brothers and John became Chief Executive of the enlarged corporate finance group and founded its international business. He was also an Executive Director of Close Brothers Group. He joined Noble in 2002 and since 2003 has led the development of Noble into a growth market investment bank. At Execution Noble he heads up M&A.

John is the Head of the Noble Financial Services Team and the GMA FIG Sector team. His past clients have included many major banking and insurance groups, both in the UK and overseas, and he has extensive experience in handling asset finance transactions. Specifically, he advised Aviva on the disposal of their stake in Lex Vehicle Leasing (one of the largest UK vehicle leasing groups) to HBOS in 2005. Previously, he advised on the merger of United Bank of Kuwait and Al Ahli Bank of Bahrain to form AUB, and on transactions involving banks in the Czech Republic and Spain. Prior to joining Noble he headed the international financial services M & A sector team at KPMG Corporate Finance.