StormHarbour expansion continues apace with new senior hires
Tuesday, 04 December 2012 09:00

London and New York: December 4, 2012 – StormHarbour, the independent global capital
markets, advisory and securities firm, today announces the appointment of a number ofsenior executives. The latest additions continue StormHarbour’s rapid expansion since its
creation in 2009 and bring the total number of hires in 2012 to 40.

The five senior StormHarbour appointments are:

Helmuth Bahn has been appointed Managing Director, Head of Germany and Austria
Origination. Helmuth joins StormHarbour from PERAS Associates, a corporate financeadvisory boutique he founded in 2008. Helmuth has over 23 years of experience ininternational capital markets and investment banking, having held senior client coverage
positions at Merrill Lynch, Schroeder Salomon Smith Barney, ABN-Amro and Credit
Suisse, prior to establishing his own practice.

Christian Dinesen has been appointed Managing Director, Head of Insurance Solutions.
Christian, who has more than 25 years of combined insurance industry and global capital
markets experience, was most recently Managing Director, Head of International CreditResearch at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML). Prior to joining BAML in 2002,
Christian headed Standard & Poor’s European insurance practice. Christian started hiscareer as a re-insurance broker in the Lloyd’s and London markets in 1984 and was apartner at Risk & Insurance Research Group, a management consultancy firm prior tojoining Standard & Poor’s in 1999.

Charles Scheyd has been appointed Managing Director, Nordic Region Client Coverage.
Charles joins from Venn Partners where he was responsible for coverage of banks andinstitutional investors in the Nordic region. Prior to joining Venn Partners in 2011, Charles
spent 10 years at Banque AIG as Managing Director where he was most recently responsible
for the firm’s Northern Europe and Nordic Marketing. Charles, who has more than 23 yearsof capital markets experience started his career at Chemical Banking Corporation in 1989
and held a number of senior client coverage positions at Bankers Trust and Dresdner
Kleinwort Wasserstein prior to joining Banque AIG.

Mounir Guessous has been appointed Principal and Managing Director, France Client
Coverage. Mounir joins from Moroccan Financial Board, where he was deputy CEO for
Business Development and where he helped in the development of Casablanca as thefinancial hub for Africa. Previously, Mounir was Managing Director, Head of French
Speaking Sales at Aladdin Capital. Prior to joining Aladdin in 2009, Mounir spent 8 years atNomura International in London as Head of France and Benelux Sales. Mounir started hiscareer in the securities industry in 1987 at Oddo et Cie in Paris.

George Giannakis has been appointed Managing Director, Greece and Central andEastern Europe Client Coverage. George joins from Citigroup Global Markets, where he wasDirector of Fixed Income and Equity Derivatives Sales. George started his career at Lehman
Brothersin London in 2005 and spent 2 years at Nomura International prior to joining Citigroup in2010.

Commenting, Amir Hoveyda, Managing Principal, said: “The ongoing reshaping of thefinancial services industry continues to present significant growth opportunities forindependent, specialist boutiques such as StormHarbour; both in terms of opportunity forexpansion into sectors being vacated by formerly full service banks as well as our ability toattract highly seasoned professionals, such as Helmut, Christian, Charles, Mounir andGeorge, with an average industry experience of 20 years between them, looking to join aglobal, focused and expanding private partnership”. “We welcome our new colleagues to thefirm and look forward to working with them to expand our business, continue to establish
our franchise and realise our full potential.”

For further information please contact:
FTI Consulting
Ed Berry / Rizwana Issa
+44 207 269 7297 / 7120
Edward.Berry@fticonsulting.com
Rizwana.Issa@fticonsulting.com

About StormHarbour

StormHarbour is an independent, credit focused, global markets and financial advisory
firm founded in 2009 on the core values of integrity, trust and global expertise.

The firm’s core businesses are sales and trading, structuring and advisory and capitalmarkets.

With approximately 170 experienced professionals across offices in the major financial
centres of New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and branches in Madrid andLisbon StormHarbour prides itself on providing clients with unrivalled markets insight andexpertise, combined with issuer and investor access that is truly global in scope.

As an independent and relationship-driven partnership, StormHarbour places client valueat the core of its business.

StormHarbour was recently recognised as “Most Innovative Boutique” by The Banker, at
the Annual
Investment Banking Awards, 2012. StormHarbour is the youngest recipient of this award todate.