Kames will perform this task as co-head alongside his former colleague Marcus Schenck: Schenck only joined Lazard in the spring from the US investment bank Perella Weinberg. Schenck and Kames worked together at the US investment bank at the beginning of the millennium Goldman Sachs worked.
Lazard thus recorded two prominent newcomers within a few months. Kames has worked at JP Morgan since 2016 and was there, among other things, for the IPO of the VW subsidiary Porsche accompanied in September.
Although the market environment for the consulting industry has recently clouded over, the looks up mergers and acquisitions specialized consultancy boutique Lazard can look back on quite a successful year. In the list of advisors for M&A kept by Bloomberg News, Lazard ranks second in Germany in terms of the volume of deals supported.