Both appointments will be reporting to Ben Bailey, Head of TMT Europe, Macquarie Capital and Rainer Langel, Head of EMEA, Macquarie Capital.
Mr. Munk joins from Deutsche Handelsbank AG where he was Co-Chief Executive Officer. He was previously Head of Technology Investment Banking at Oppenheimer, covering various transactions and fund-raising mandates across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Based in Frankfurt, Mr. Munk will be focused on developing the team’s Technology presence in Europe with a focus on growing Macquarie Capital’s differentiated capital solutions offering.
Rainer Langel, Head of EMEA, Macquarie Capital said: “The last two years have seen rapid growth of the technology sector in Europe, Jens and Alina will help us to respond the corresponding need for advisory services and capital provision in the sector. They will also support the continuing expansion of Macquarie Capital’s business, which now has a footprint in all major financial centres across Europe.”
Macquarie Capital’s TMT offering has global reach and scale and is active across Europe supported by offices in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.
The team focuses on sell-side advisory, capital raising and leverage finance mandates, and can provide bespoke capital solutions from Macquarie’s balance sheet, with deep expertise in Digital, Enterprise Software and Fintech and Payments.
Recent financial advisory transactions include the sale of Finanzcheck, the German online consumer finance marketplace, to Smava; the US$450m sale of Brandwatch, the world leading digital intelligence player, to Cision; the $50m equity raise for StuDocu, a leading global online crowdsourced study platform; and the merger of Clearant and TSG to form Xplor that created a global platform designed to integrate software, payments, and commerce-enabling solutions for specific vertical markets.
The expansion of Macquarie Capital’s TMT team complements long-standing principal investing activities in the technology and software sector, through the provision of private credit, and private and growth equity. Recent principal investing activities include: an investment in Aryza, a leading global provider of case management and process automation software solutions for regulated industries serving the insolvency, credit, and debt recovery sectors; the provision of a unitranche debt facility to Onex Partners in connection with its acquisition of Tes Global, an international provider of software to schools and teachers; principal investments in infrastructure businesses like Onivia, an independent wholesale fibre network business in Spain.
