Michael Christner

Managing Director

Michael Christner has over 20 years of experience in capital markets, M&A and capital markets transactions of financial services companies.
Mr Christner started his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley in London. Here he focused on advising financial services companies on M&A and capital markets transactions.
In 2007, he joined the private equity investor J.C. Flowers, where his responsibilities included the analysis and negotiation of investments in financial services providers.
During his time at J.C. Flowers, Michael Christner was also a member of numerous supervisory boards and corresponding committees, for example at the Belgian insurance company Fidea, the Dutch NIBC Bank and HCOB in Germany.
He was Chairman of the Supervisory Board and later CEO of Vall Banc in Andorra, as well as Division Manager at HCOB in Hamburg.
His activities in regulated financial companies were subject to approval by supervisory authorities in the respective countries, including BaFin, the Dutch Central Bank or the ECB.
Michael Christner holds a degree in business informatics with a focus on finance from the University of Cologne and received a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung).