Guy Peters has been hired by XCap Securities as head of corporate with immediate effect.
Peters has more than 20 years of deal experience and worked on a wide variety of main market and AIM IPOs, takeovers and fund-raisings.
After qualifying as a lawyer with Herbert Smith he moved into corporate finance with Lloyds Merchant Bank, where he spent four years.
He then worked for 10 years at Albert E Sharp, through its various guises (Old Mutual, Arbuthnot Securities), before joining Shore Capital as a director for six years.
In 2010 he became managing director of corporate finance at Seymour Pierce responsible for the team as a whole as well as remaining an active fee earner and having responsibility for a diverse portfolio of main market and AIM quoted corporate clients.
Nitin Parekh, chief executive of XCap Securities, says: “ We are delighted to welcome Guy and his appointment is a further sign that the changes we have made to our business now enables us to recruit market leaders in our industry. Our deal pipeline is growing in size and quality and having someone of Guy’s experience significantly enhances our execution capability as well as the extent of our corporate finance capabilities.”
