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Keith R. Harris
Keith Reginald Harris (born 11 April 1953) is a London-based investment banker and financier with a 30-year career as a senior corporate finance and takeover advisor, having held senior executive positions at leading institutions Morgan Grenfell, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Apax Partners, and HSBC Investment Bank. He is a private equity investor with interests in varied private equity holdings in financials, media, and sport.
He was previously chairman of the Football League and director of Wembley National Stadium Ltd., the company which owns Wembley Stadium. And in October 2016, he became a director of Everton F.C.
Dr Harris has advised on hundreds of debt and equity issues as well as complex cross border transactions as a senior executive at leading global banks. He has also acted for many noteworthy clients and been involved in high-profile transactions such as the £13.5bn hostile bid for British American Tobacco by Kerry Packer, Sir James Goldsmith, and Lord Rothschild. Harris continues to act for rich families from the Middle East, and India on sport and media related acquisitions.
Harris was President of Morgan Grenfell Inc. (now owned by Deutsche Bank) as well as the youngest ever director at the British investment bank Morgan, Grenfell & Co. The bank was founded by the American George Peabody in 1838 as the UK branch of his US bank which subsequently became known as J.P. Morgan & Co.[incomplete short citation] In 1904, Edward Grenfell was made a partner in the firm and in 1909 it underwent a change of name to incorporate Grenfell, therefore becoming Morgan, Grenfell & Co. Harris spent eight years altogether at Morgan Grenfell.
Harris departed Morgan, Grenfell & Co. for an American investment bank, accepting a position as managing director and Head of International Corporate Finance at the American firm Drexel Burnham Lambert. After the bank was forced into bankruptcy in 1990, Harris moved to the private equity sector.
Between 1990 and 1994, Harris served as Chief Executive of Apax Partners Corporate Finance Ltd (previously Patricof & Co. and MMG). This was the corporate finance advisory division of Apax, a private equity asset management firm which was founded by Maurice Tchenio, Sir Ronald Cohen, and American Alan Patricof.
Harris was recruited by Sir William Purves, then Chairman of HSBC Group, to HSBC Investment Bank PLC where he served as global Chief Executive between 1994 and 1999. At HSBC Harris oversaw a staff of approximately 13,500 in forty six countries. Under his leadership, HSBC Investment Bank achieved an average annual return on equity of more than 20% with over 30% in some years, and reported over £400 million in annual profit.
In 1999, Harris left HSBC to pursue a number of interests as chairman or non-executive director of a range of public and private companies including Halfords plc. He became Executive Chairman and an investor of the UK investment bank Seymour Pierce, which was founded in 1803. This began in 2003 when he organised a buyout group that acquired the bank. Harris brought his sport M&A practice to the bank and ran the advisory business through the bank making it the leading strategic financial adviser to top-level professional football teams, advising on dozens of acquisitions including Chelsea, Newcastle, West Ham, Aston Villa, Fulham, and Manchester City among others. Seymour Pierce, now part of an American securities firm called Cantor Fitzgerald, had been the number one ranked investment bank in London for LSE AIM listed companies. The firm had been a registered Nominated Advisor, or NOMAD, with authority delegated by the London Stock Exchange to regulate and supervise companies admitted to trade publicly on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) segment of the LSE. Until its take over by Cantor, Seymour Pierce had been the primary regulator for approximately 80 public companies on AIM.
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Keith R. Harris
Keith Reginald Harris (born 11 April 1953) is a London-based investment banker and financier with a 30-year career as a senior corporate finance and takeover advisor, having held senior executive positions at leading institutions Morgan Grenfell, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Apax Partners, and HSBC Investment Bank. He is a private equity investor with interests in varied private equity holdings in financials, media, and sport.
He was previously chairman of the Football League and director of Wembley National Stadium Ltd., the company which owns Wembley Stadium. And in October 2016, he became a director of Everton F.C.
Dr Harris has advised on hundreds of debt and equity issues as well as complex cross border transactions as a senior executive at leading global banks. He has also acted for many noteworthy clients and been involved in high-profile transactions such as the £13.5bn hostile bid for British American Tobacco by Kerry Packer, Sir James Goldsmith, and Lord Rothschild. Harris continues to act for rich families from the Middle East, and India on sport and media related acquisitions.
Harris was President of Morgan Grenfell Inc. (now owned by Deutsche Bank) as well as the youngest ever director at the British investment bank Morgan, Grenfell & Co. The bank was founded by the American George Peabody in 1838 as the UK branch of his US bank which subsequently became known as J.P. Morgan & Co.[incomplete short citation] In 1904, Edward Grenfell was made a partner in the firm and in 1909 it underwent a change of name to incorporate Grenfell, therefore becoming Morgan, Grenfell & Co. Harris spent eight years altogether at Morgan Grenfell.
Harris departed Morgan, Grenfell & Co. for an American investment bank, accepting a position as managing director and Head of International Corporate Finance at the American firm Drexel Burnham Lambert. After the bank was forced into bankruptcy in 1990, Harris moved to the private equity sector.
Between 1990 and 1994, Harris served as Chief Executive of Apax Partners Corporate Finance Ltd (previously Patricof & Co. and MMG). This was the corporate finance advisory division of Apax, a private equity asset management firm which was founded by Maurice Tchenio, Sir Ronald Cohen, and American Alan Patricof.
Harris was recruited by Sir William Purves, then Chairman of HSBC Group, to HSBC Investment Bank PLC where he served as global Chief Executive between 1994 and 1999. At HSBC Harris oversaw a staff of approximately 13,500 in forty six countries. Under his leadership, HSBC Investment Bank achieved an average annual return on equity of more than 20% with over 30% in some years, and reported over £400 million in annual profit.
In 1999, Harris left HSBC to pursue a number of interests as chairman or non-executive director of a range of public and private companies including Halfords plc. He became Executive Chairman and an investor of the UK investment bank Seymour Pierce, which was founded in 1803. This began in 2003 when he organised a buyout group that acquired the bank. Harris brought his sport M&A practice to the bank and ran the advisory business through the bank making it the leading strategic financial adviser to top-level professional football teams, advising on dozens of acquisitions including Chelsea, Newcastle, West Ham, Aston Villa, Fulham, and Manchester City among others. Seymour Pierce, now part of an American securities firm called Cantor Fitzgerald, had been the number one ranked investment bank in London for LSE AIM listed companies. The firm had been a registered Nominated Advisor, or NOMAD, with authority delegated by the London Stock Exchange to regulate and supervise companies admitted to trade publicly on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) segment of the LSE. Until its take over by Cantor, Seymour Pierce had been the primary regulator for approximately 80 public companies on AIM.