A former colleague of Richard Briance, the recently installed chief executive of WestLB’s merchant banking arm, says: “West Merchant Bank were unbelievably lucky to get him. If I was him I’d have held out for a bigger job.”
For Briance, heading the international investment activities of Germany’s third-largest bank is a big job but he is not one to blow his own trumpet – “It’s so deeply not my style to put myself forward,” he pleads, palpably uncomfortable at the idea – safe perhaps in the knowledge that others will do it for him.
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