David Stürken

ECM, M&A, Private Equity and cross-border communications specialist.

David has more than 20 years of experience advising European, American, Middle Eastern and Asian companies in efforts to communicate with their stakeholders through globally-influential English-language and European media in M&A, ECM, crisis, profile raising or activist shareholder defence situations.

David has worked on more than 50 equity capital market transactions (IPOs, SPOs, privatisations, spin-offs, rights issues) across all Western European markets, as well as Russia, Eastern Europe, China, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia, that together raised more than $150bn.

He also worked on over 150 agreed, contested, and hostile cross-border M&A transactions with a combined deal value of above $350bn.

David’s profile raising and investor relations clients experience includes successful long-term positioning programmes for European and Asian clients from across a broad range of sectors, furthermore he also has extensive experience in working with companies defending themselves against activist investors.

David is bi-lingual English-German and speaks French and Spanish.