The Lansdowne Team
The team at Lansdowne Capital comprises senior investment bankers with extensive international investment banking and industrial experience, backed by a pool of high quality executives and support staff.
Our core team is kept small by design. This ensures that each project enjoys senior banker involvement from start to finish and that each of our clients benefits directly from our considerable industry knowledge and transaction experience. This is in contrast to many of our competitors. We often complement our core team with industry experts and external consultants with directly relevant industry, financial and/or geographic expertise.
The core team comprises:
Alan Dargan
Alan founded Lansdowne Capital in 1997 and is the Chairman and Chief Executive. Alan has many years experience in investment banking and was, until February 1997, Managing Director in investment banking at SBC Warburg (now UBS), responsible for investment banking with a broad group of international clients. From 1984 to 1994, Alan worked for Credit Suisse First Boston in New York and London, most recently as Managing Director in investment banking. Prior to this, he worked for S.G.Warburg/ Warburg Paribas Becker in investment banking in New York.
Alan has advised many restructuring transactions in Northern Europe, including those in the banking, insurance and consumer products sectors. In addition, he has advised Governments and major corporations in the paper, packaging and printing sectors around the world in M&A and capital raising transactions.
Alan is an honours graduate in business studies from Trinity College, Dublin and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.
email: adargan@lanscap.com
Orla Dargan
Orla joined Lansdowne Capital in 2000 and is responsible for M&A and strategic advisory services in the building material and related sectors. Orla was previously with ABN Amro Corporate Finance where she was a director in charge of the building materials sector team, which she established in 1997. From 1993 to 1997 Orla was head of corporate development for Hepworth PLC, a major quoted European building materials group, responsible for overseeing the group’s acquisitions and disposals. From 1989 to 1993 Orla worked at Lloyds Merchant Bank where she executed a large number of M&A and capital raising transactions in a variety of industries across Europe.
Orla is a chartered accountant and has an honours degree in business studies from Trinity College, Dublin.
email: odargan@lanscap.com
John Hardy
Following a brief career in the army, John Hardy worked for Hambros Bank from 1987 to 1995, where he developed the sector-focussed organization for the bank and headed the paper, packaging, printing and distribution sector team. In 1995 John moved with his sector team to UBS and, following the merger, into UBS Warburg, where he was Managing Director of the Global Paper and Packaging group. Between 2002 and 2005 he was a partner at Deloitte and head of the paper and packaging group.
John’s sector experience includes the privatization of the Polish paper and products industry, the acquisition of 4P by Van Leer, the acquisition of Swiece by Mondi, the merger of Nampak and Malbak, the sale of Linpac to Montagu and the subsequent sale of Linpac Corrugated to DS Smith.
email: jhardy@lanscap.com
David Owen
David joined Lansdowne Capital as Vice President in 2005 from Commerzbank Securities, where he worked within the UK corporate finance team and was involved in Commerzbank’s capital increase. David also worked for ABN AMRO in the Corporate Finance consumer team from 1999 to 2002, where he advised blue-chip consumer industries companies such as Sara Lee, Heineken and Reckitt Benckiser. He also advised several private equity houses on acquisitions in the consumer sector, such as the take-private of Ontex by Candover and the acquisition of Accantia by ABN AMRO Capital. Prior to working for ABN AMRO,
David was a member of Salomon Smith Barney’s Industrials corporate
finance team focusing on the aviation sector.
David has a degree in modern languages from Oxford University.
email: dowen@lanscap.com
Jeremy Roberts
Jeremy Roberts is a director of Lansdowne Capital having joined he company in 2002 from Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was a Vice President in the Transport and Logistics team. In addition to working for clients in the transportation sector, Jeremy has advised leisure, building materials, paper and packaging, and chemicals companies. Prior to CSFB, Jeremy worked at ABN AMRO Corporate Finance from 1995 to 2000.
Jeremy has a degree in Economics and Politics from the University of Bath.
email: jroberts@lanscap.com
Tim Sanders
Tim Sanders was a founding partner of Lansdowne Capital and is a director of the company. He previously worked at SBC Warburg where he was an Executive Director in the investment banking paper, packaging and printing sector team. Tim joined Swiss Bank Corporation in 1992, charged with the task of developing the bank’s presence in investment banking in European paper and packaging. From 1980 to 1992 Tim was responsible for Corporate Development at Bunzl plc, a U.K. public company, during which time Bunzl expanded rapidly through acquisition and organic growth to become a FTSE 100 company. Tim has also held senior strategic planning positions with Ford Motor, Massey-Ferguson, Xerox and TI Group.
Tim has a masters degree in Economics from Cambridge University.
email: tsanders@lanscap.com
