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May 1997

Hofmann the go-between


Dresdner Bank's roving diplomat Hansgeorg Hofmann struggled for 18 months to keep Kleinwort Benson intact after its takeover by Dresdner. But rival board members in Frankfurt were forcing a tortuous management structure on fledgling investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. That led Kleinwort's long-standing chairman Simon Robertson to quit in February. Now the gloves are off, and Dresdner's board, including Hofmann, have turned authoritarian. Expect some bloodshed. By Laura Covill.




The investment banking committee (as of mid-April 1997)
Global Markets Global Finance Equities Corporate Finance
*†Gerhard Eberstadt
*Gerd Häusler
Leonhard Fischer
Erich Pohl
*Bernhard Walter
John Cameron
Bernd Fahrholz
†*Hansgeorg Hofmann
Alan Yarrow
†*Hansgeorg Hofmann
Tim Shacklock
Americas Asia UK
*Ernst-Moritz Lipp
Georg Fugelsang
Rolf Willi †David Clementi
Simon Ball
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Global Markets Fixed income trading and sales: debt capital markets; forex and precious metals; derivatives; markets risk management
Global Finance Syndicated loans, product finance, structured finance
Equities Sales, trading and research
Corporate Finance Equity capital markets, M&A, financial advisory

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Dresdner Bank board members

Directors of Kleinwort Benson

In February, Hansgeorg Hofmann, Dresdner Bank's most senior diplomat, ran out of patience. The tall, go-getting investment banker, who won his spurs at Merrill Lynch and Shearson Lehman in the 1980s, wasn't his normal, jovial self.

He called Dresdner supervisory board chairman Wolfgang Röller. The...


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