Investec builds on private equity, growth equity focus with new appointment

Min Ho
06 July 2022

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Investec has promoted Kate Gribbon to head the investment bankтs financial sponsor coverage for private equity, growth equity and venture capital.

Investec has promoted Kate Gribbon to head the investment bank's financial sponsor coverage for private equity, growth equity and venture capital.

Under the new role, Gribbon will continue to build on Investec's existing relationships with its private equity clients by developing "original and creative ideas" for their pipeline, including the introduction of earlier stage growth companies," Gribbon told Unquote.

"As we're also talking to growth and early-stage companies in the market, we are helping our private equity clients unlock and identify innovative and upcoming trends that are coming through, ensuring that those trends are being brought up along the chain to the mid-market," she added.

Investec's offering should set it apart from its competitors, which "focuses very much" on the mid-market, trading ideas such as which companies are being sold, who's buying what, what processes will be coming out in the market in due course.

"We will be doing all of that, coverage and origination for mid-cap clients, whilst also working with growth equity sponsors by introducing earlier-stage companies to them and driving them through the broader private equity ecosystem," she said.

Gribbon will complement this responsibility with introducing Investor's Investec's suite of advisory and debt services spanning private company fundraising, M&A and IPOs, leveraged finance and fund level finance.

She takes on the role following her two-year stint as a co-leader in the bank's private company fundraising team, advising fast growing companies seeking growth capital. Prior to joining Investec, Gribbon spent 13 years advising in the M&A mid-market at Cavendish and Deloitte.

[Editor's note: The headline has been updated post-publication to clarify that Investec continues to build on its PE and growth equity focus with the new appointment.]