| Headline: Robert Griffin Source: Euromoney Date: September 2000 Author: Philip Eade more on People Head of investment banking, Barclays Capital Americas Barclays has been in New York some 150 years but only recently has it begun to make any real headway in investment banking. This year, the American office of its investment banking arm has pulled off several notable coups, among them funding the First successful hostile take-over in the US utilities industry, with a $600 million loan facility to Finance the acquisition of Columbia Energy by Nisource Inc, the largest utility in Indiana.
Griffin, a veteran of Bank of America and before that Continental has had success in several different areas of investment banking. According to Thomas Kalaris, CEO of Barclays Capital Americas, he represents “an ideal leader who will enable us to greatly accelerate our origination capacity”. In Griffin, Barclays has certainly recruited an enthusiast. “I just couldn’t be more excited about the values and brand image and ability to do business here,” he says. |