Robin Saunders

Robin Saunders (* 1962 in the US state of North Carolina ) is an American-British investment banker who is best known for her work at WestLB .

She studied finance at Florida State University, where she graduated in 1984. She first worked at the Northern Trust banking house in Chicago, then at Citibank in New York. In 1990 she went to London and worked there at Chemical Bank and a little later at Deutsche Bank . In 1998 she and her team moved to the London office of WestLB, which was just planning to massively expand its investment banking . Under the leadership of Saunders, this business area was named Principal Financefunded with a high level of funding. Saunders soon achieves several large transactions with well-known business partners: takeover of the British Home Store chain by billionaire Philip Green , financing of Bernie Ecclestone's Formula 1 business , renovation of the Wembley stadium , sale of shares in Telecom Italia , stake in Pubmaster restaurant chain (now part of Punch Taverns ). Her reputation in the financial world rose quickly, which was due to her business success as well as her demeanor. Her annual salary in the good times was estimated at £ 10 million.

In 2003 it became known that there were major risks in the principal finance area of WestLB. The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority then carried out a special investigation. The 1.4 billion euro commitment at the TV distributor Boxclever , where the bank had to write off an amount of 427 million euros, was particularly lossy . In the further course of 2003, five board members had to leave the bank, including the chairman Jürgen Sengera . Sengera was charged with infidelity. Saunders escaped legal proceedings by voluntarily paying EUR 1.0 million in “administration fees” without recognizing any legal obligation.

Saunders and WestLB separated in December 2003. In April 2004, they founded their own venture capital firm in London under the name Clearbrook Capital Partners LLP . Saunders is married to Matthew Roeser, who also works in banking. You are the parent of twins.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Guardian "Beating the boys at their own game"
2. ↑ Saunders was also the one who saved the chronically clammy Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone from bankruptcy in 1999 with a 1.5 billion pound "Bernie bond".
3. ↑ RP-Online “Banker Robin Saunders in the dock”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - RP, 2008  
4. ↑ Times Online "Business big shot: Robin Saunders"
5. ↑ "Saunders will get between one and two million pounds in bonuses not previously paid out to them - but no severance pay."
6. ^ Robin Saunders ( Memento from July 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Robert von Heusinger and John F. Jungclaussen : The courage of the desperate - double room, June 18, 2003