Schroder joins Arma’s US operation
Jim Schroder, ex technology banker with Lehman Brothers and Montgomery & Co. has joined Arma Partners as a managing director, based in its US office at Palo Alto, California. Arma’s most notable deals include Software AG’s $546 million acquisition of NASDAQ-listed webMethods, GloNav’s $110 million acquisition by NXP Semiconductors, and freenet AG’s $2.6 billion acquisition of debitel Group. Since the beginning of 2008 Arma Partners has announced close to $3 billion in transactions.
Arma expects to significantly strengthen its US domestic and transatlantic advisory business with Schroder’s arrival; he will work alongside Brian Skiba, Steve Smith and other members of Arma’s US team. Schroder was previously a senior technology banker with Lehman Brothers and Montgomery & Co., with over 15 years of investment banking and professional experience in Silicon Valley, New York and London.
Previously, Schroder successfully led transactions for leading technology companies in the US, Europe and Asia, representing about $30 billion in M&A and $3 billion in public and private financing. Notable transactions include the sale of Sorenson Communications to GTCR, the $1 billion LBO of Aspect Software by Golden Gate Capital and the $1 billion acquisition of Content Technologies by Baltimore Technologies, in addition to numerous growth transactions in the enterprise software, software-as-a-service, internet, storage and communications domains.
Earlier in his career Schroder was a strategy consultant and served as a nuclear submarine officer on board a fast attack nuclear submarine. He holds an MBA from Yale University, a BS in systems engineering from the US Naval Academy (Annapolis) and an advanced program in nuclear engineering.
Founded in 2003, Arma Partners is one of Europe's leading independent financial advisor to technology companies and also growing in the US market.
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