Alvina Galstian has been confirmed as the new VP of the corporate adviser, having previously spent six years as executive manager of CBA’s investment development team, where she was responsible for the bank’s capital investment portfolio.
Ms Galstian, who has over 15 years’ experience in the financial services sector, has also worked at KPMG’s global M&A deal advisory practice where she worked with clients in Sydney and London.
Meanwhile, Latimer has also confirmed Brian Lau will join the company as a senior associate.
Mr Lau joins Latimer from Deutsche Bank where he worked across structured debt transactions.
Prior to that, Mr Lau worked in HSBC’s leveraged finance team.
Alongside the new hires, Latimer has suggested there will be continued growth in the tech and telco space in the new financial year on the back of companies like Uniti, Spirit Technologies and Tesserent collectively acquiring over 50 players in the market.
“We expect this consolidation trend to continue, particularly with highly-rated public companies capitalising on the relatively low cost of equity and debt funding to acquire private businesses from founders seeking to capitalise on what is a sellers market,” Latimer principal, Mark Nesbitt, said.
“Digitisation has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic with many more people now needing to interact remotely. This is driving investor interest in technology and telecommunications businesses which in turn is supporting M&A activity across those sectors.”
