Herbst Hilgenfeldt GmbH (“HHP”) and Cameron Barney LLP (‘Cameron Barney’) are pleased to announce that they have joined forces to serve clients in the European growth infrastructure and telecoms sectors.

The two firms, which will operate under the name “CBHH – Cameron Barney Herbst Hilgenfeldt” – will be one of Europe’s largest independent investment banking and advisory brands serving clients in the digital and energy transition sectors as well as in the wider technology markets.

CBHH, which will operate from its offices in London and Frankfurt, offers clients:

• 30+ executives with extensive transactional capability and experience across continental Europe and the UK in our core sectors of digital and energy transition infrastructure as well as the wider TMT space;
• 9 Partners, all of whom have significant prior transaction experience from previous employments as senior bankers at the world’s foremost investment banks, including Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Evercore, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, Kleinwort Benson, Morgan Stanley, Rothschild and UBS Investment Bank;
• An unrivalled track record of M&A and financing transactions on behalf of most of the leading growth infrastructure investors in Europe, with over 30 successful mandates in the last 24 months alone across the UK, DACH and Benelux regions;
• Long-standing trusted relationships with the key decision makers within the European digital, energy transition and wider TMT sector based on decades of advisory excellence and transaction prowess.

The infrastructure that underpins Europe’s digital, energy, transport and property industries is in need of substantial expansion and investment. Few sectors are as capital intensive and at the same time crucial to underpinning future economic competitiveness and growth. CBHH is at the forefront in advising and arranging capital for companies, entrepreneurs and investors that are leading this change and is ideally positioned to provide its combined capabilities to new clients.

Michael Herbst, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of HHP commented: “I’m delighted that HHP and Cameron Barney, the two leading independent Infratech advisors in their respective markets, the UK and DACH/Benelux regions, are working together and joining up a similar heritage of high quality people providing high quality advice. Both firms allow our clients to benefit from the deepest and widest experience available in the European digital, energy-transition, transport, and related sectors.”

Charles Cameron, Co-Founder and Partner at Cameron Barney said: “This is an opportunity to combine some of the most experienced advisers in their fields in the UK and Continental Europe and establish Europe’s leading merchant bank dedicated to the needs of digital, energy-transition, transport, and related sectors. We very much look forward to delivering the full capabilities of our combined firm into our clients’ Boardrooms, Investment and Credit Committees on a pan-European basis.”

For further information please contact:
Michael Herbst +44 7508 869 343
Marc-Olaf Hilgenfeldt +49 171 900 1235
Alexander Hofmann +49 170 900 1242