Carlo Calabria

Prior to founding CMC Capital, Mr Calabria was Vice Chairman of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Global Corporate and Investment Banking Division. Mr Calabria joined Merrill Lynch in 2006 as head of its International Mergers & Acquisitions practice and remained in the post following the $36bn takeover of the US bank by rival Bank of America at the height of the credit crisis in 2008. During his tenure at Merrill Lynch his team consistently ranked in the top 5 in Dealogic M&A league tables and also topped the table under his stewardship. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr Calabria worked at Credit Suisse, where he was Co-Chairman of the Advisory Group and Head of European M&A. He was also a Member of the Executive Committee of the Investment Banking Division Mr Calabria started his career in Investment Banking with Morgan Grenfell & Co. Limited, where he spent six years until the bank was acquired by Deutsche Bank at the end of 1989. He was a Senior Assistant Director in the Corporate Finance Group During his career and as leader of two bulge bracket International M&A teams, Mr Calabria has accumulated extensive advisory experience across different industries and geography His experience covers a wide spectrum of transactions, among others he acted in the defence/sale of Telecom Italia to Olivetti ($60bn), Endesa to Acciona and Enel ($53bn), Arcelor to Mittal ($27bn) and Portugal Telecom from hostile bid of Sonae.com ($16.8bn) Mr Calabria has a MA in Economics and Business from La Sapienza University in Rome