Close Brothers Corporate Finance, an independent corporate finance adviser, has appointed Jonathan Tyler as a managing director to head its chemical sector team, based in London.
Close Brothers Corporate Finance, an independent corporate finance adviser, has appointed Jonathan Tyler as a managing director to head its chemical sector team, based in London.
Tyler (pictured) joins CBCF from Houlihan Lokey, where for the past two and a half years he has originated and executed major financial restructuring transactions in the chemicals sector, together with M&A and related advisory processes. Restructuring situations he has advised on include LyondellBasell, one of the world’s largest polymers, petrochemicals and fuels companies; Ineos, the world’s third largest chemicals company and the UK’s largest private company; and Chemtura, the global specialty chemicals company.
Tyler has focused on the chemicals sector for well over a decade. Previously he was head of the chemical research team at Goldman Sachs, where he was a top three individually ranked analyst in investor surveys. Prior to that he spent four years at Bear Stearns where he was head of global chemical sector sell-side research team. Throughout these roles he has worked on many of the largest IPOs in the European chemical sector.
Tyler is the 13th senior hire CBCF has made in the last year and part of CBCF’s commitment to the continuous development of its European restructuring and debt advisory practice. This is also the first senior hire CBCF has made since becoming part of Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe.
Stephen Aulsebrook, chief executive of Close Brothers Corporate Finance, says: ‘We are delighted to welcome Jonathan to the team. We expect a surge of distressed situations in the chemicals sector and the combination of Jonathan’s extensive experience advising Europe’s leading chemical companies and our European restructuring and debt advisory practice means Close Brothers Corporate Finance is ideally positioned to advise companies and their stakeholders in these complex, multi-jurisdictional situations.’
