ING Leveraged Finance Team Expands Dedicated CEE Coverage to Five
London, 31-01-2008ING’s Leveraged Finance and Sponsor Coverage business has hired David Ryba as Director in its Central & Eastern European Team.
David joins from Commerzbank Leveraged Finance. Prior to that, he spent eleven years at the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development in London, where he was part of the Telecoms & Media team and general industry teams focussed on Central Europe and Russia. David has a Harvard MBA and a BA from the Prague School of Economics. He reports to Martijn Bruins, Head of Leveraged Finance and Sponsor Coverage for Central and Eastern Europe.
This addition takes ING’s London-based Central and Eastern European Leveraged Finance and Sponsor Coverage team to five professionals and shows the commitment of the bank to further grow the financial sponsor driven business in the CEE region. Recent ING-led transactions in the region include the acquisition of CTL Logistics in Poland by Bridgepoint, the refinancing of Warburg Pincus-owned Euromedic, and the acquisition of Ceske Radiokomunikace, which was the largest buy-out financing in the region at the time.
ING’s Leveraged Finance and Sponsor Coverage Group has dedicated teams based in the UK, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Czech Republic, the United States, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and South Korea. ING was MLA on 25 transactions (9 as Sole MLA) in 2007, representing €25.0 billion of facilities. In 2006 ING was MLA on 22 transactions (10 as Sole MLA), representing €19.8 billion of facilities.
Press enquiries:
Martijn Bruins
Head of Leveraged Finance & Sponsor Coverage
CEE Region
T +44 20 7767 6208
Adrian Simpson
ING Wholesale Banking Communications
T +44 20 7767 1708