Andreas Leimbach

Andreas Leimbach (born May 27, 1959 in Osnabrück ) is a German finance expert.

Career

After graduating from school and doing military service in the German Navy , Leimbach began studying business administration at the University of Paderborn in 1979 and graduated in 1985 with a degree in business administration. He then studied postgraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , USA ( MBA ) with a focus on finance and marketing, partly financed by the DAAD . In 1989 he received his doctorate from the University of Paderborn. rer. pole.

Leimbach joined Dresdner Bank in 1988 . His main areas of activity were corporate banking and investment banking. His expertise in structured finance and capital markets is of particular importance. In 1996 he arranged the syndicated financing for a foreign direct investment in East Germany, AMD Saxony in Dresden, since March 2009: Globalfoundries .

At Dresdner Bank, he worked in various areas of responsibility in corporate banking and investment banking in Frankfurt, London and Hamburg. From 1990 to 1993 he was a personal assistant to Bernhard Walter (1987–2000 member of the Board of Management of Dresdner Bank AG). In July 2002 he became chairman of the corporate banking management for the North Region (Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony).

The Supervisory Board of Dresdner Bank appointed Andreas Leimbach as a member of the Board of Management of Dresdner Bank AG with effect from November 15, 2005. In addition, on May 1, 2005, he was appointed General Manager responsible for corporate banking at Dresdner Bank AG. Andreas Leimbach was the last internally recruited board member of Dresdner Bank AG. However, his mandate only lasted nine days, as the corporate banking business and investment banking were merged and his department was no longer active. At the end of 2006 he left Dresdner Bank. "Hardly any other banker had a shorter term of office than he was through no fault of his own ... His departure is an example of the back and forth in the business policy of Dresdner Bank under the aegis of Allianz." (Die Welt, December 15, 2006). In 2009, Dresdner Bank was taken over by Commerzbank .

The Supervisory Board of IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG appointed Andreas Leimbach to the Management Board in April 2008. He took on responsibility for the corporate clients segment ( corporate finance , leasing , private equity ). The appointment of Leimbach reflected the great importance of IKB's core business, corporate customers. Since July 2007, IKB has been one of the triggers of the global financial crisis. He made a contribution to the restructuring and realignment of the bank. During his term of office, the majority of shares were transferred from KfW Bankengruppe to the US investor Lone Star Funds (November 2008). In January 2009 he left at his own request and for personal reasons.

Then Leimbach worked as a freelance consultant, speaker, investor and supervisory board. In addition, he has taken on various voluntary tasks.

In 2009 he was a founding member and has been a member of the Board of Directors of Dresdner Alumni e. V., an alumni network of Dresdner Bank. In 2014 this association was the publisher of DreBuch - on the corporate culture of Dresdner Bank . Leimbach was involved both as a member of the editorial team and as an author.

In 2010 he founded SolarKapital GmbH together with Tobias Engelhardt and became its managing director. As the only private equity company that specializes exclusively in the solar sector, SolarKapital invests equity and know-how in companies in this sector. In August 2010, the first photovoltaic systems developed and operated under the leadership of Leimbach went into operation on Crete . Further plants in Crete, Rhodes and Corsica followed. In addition, SolarKapital has been involved in ENcome GmbH (Klagenfurt), a provider of services in the field of technical management of PV systems, since 2013. In 2017 Leimbach was appointed managing director of ENcome Energy Performance GmbH .

Fonts

• Transactions in corporate control - an empirical investigation of the nature, determinants and effects of corporate buyouts. Diss., Frankfurt / Main 1989
• Company takeovers by way of management buyouts in the Federal Republic. In: Journal for Business Research. (ZfbF), May 1991, pp. 540-564
• DreBuch - on the corporate culture of Dresdner Bank . Dresdner Alumni e. V. (Ed.), Frankfurt / Main 2014, pp. 105–118.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Back to Mutter Manager Magazin online, September 4, 2014.
2. ↑ Leimbach leaves Dresdner Bank . Die Welt, December 15, 2006.
3. ↑ IKB: Andreas Leimbach new board member for corporate customer business, Finanz.net, March 26, 2008.
4. ↑ IKB loses board member for corporate customers Handelsblatt online, January 23, 2009.
5. ↑ O&M business must get to scale . In: pv magazine International . ( pv-magazine.com [accessed October 8, 2017]).