Frank­furt a. Main — Frank­furt-based corpo­rate finance boutique Peri­cap AG has joined Clair­field Inter­na­tio­nal. Effec­tive July 01, 2019, the two foun­ders Prof. Dr. Serge Ragotzky and Michael Haas have joined the Clair­field Group as partners.

Dr. Serge Ragotzky (photo) has many years of expe­ri­ence in M&A and capi­tal markets. After holding profes­sio­nal posi­ti­ons at Sal. Oppen­heim, HSBC and UBS for six years as Mana­ging Direc­tor respon­si­ble for the German corpo­rate finance busi­ness of the pan-Euro­pean invest­ment bank Kepler Cheu­vreux (form­erly Kepler Capi­tal Markets). Since 2014, he has also been Profes­sor of Invest­ment Banking at HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen.

Michael Haas, CFA , who holds a degree in busi­ness mathe­ma­tics, foun­ded Peri­Cap toge­ther with Dr. Ragotzky in 2013 and has since been advi­sing medium-sized and high-growth compa­nies in the areas of M&A and capi­tal raising. Previously, Michael Haas also spent six years at Kepler Cheu­vreux, most recently as Direc­tor Corpo­rate Finance. Other profes­sio­nal posi­ti­ons include BDO Tran­sac­tion Services, Bank­haus Lampe M&A and NIBC Infra­struc­ture Finan­cing. Clair­field Inter­na­tio­nal — one of the world’s leading M&A consul­tancies for midmar­ket tran­sac­tions — has thus once again expan­ded its circle of partners.

The addi­tion of the Frank­furt office brings Clairfield’s total number of part­ners in Germany to ten. Further team addi­ti­ons at the Düssel­dorf and Stutt­gart loca­ti­ons are plan­ned for the second half of the year. Dr. Albert Schander, Foun­der and Mana­ging Part­ner of Clair­field in Germany, said, “We are deligh­ted that Serge and Michael have chosen Clair­field and that with this team we will further streng­then our indus­try exper­tise in the tech­no­logy, consu­mer goods and real estate sectors and also expand our know-how in the areas of capi­tal markets advi­sory and valuation.”

About Clair­field International
Clair­field Inter­na­tio­nal is the asso­cia­tion of leading invest­ment banking bouti­ques with holding head­quar­ters in Geneva. The Clair­field Group curr­ently includes 38 offices in 22 coun­try orga­niza­ti­ons with a total of more than 300 employees. Clair­field Inter­na­tio­nal has been repea­tedly reco­gni­zed by Thom­son Reuters as one of the world’s leading midmar­ket M&A consul­tancies for tran­sac­tions up to €500m.