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David Hellier

Deputy editor David Hellier has been at City A.M. since October 2005 when he joined as news editor from the Independent. David has worked at a host of papers, including the Daily and Sunday Express and the Evening Standard.

  • Westerman goes east in Goldman’s reshuffle
    Tuesday 7th February 2012, 2:02am GMT
    INSIDE TRACK
    DAVID HELLIER
    FOLLOWING in the footsteps of Richard Campbell-Breeden (Asia) and Chris Barter (Moscow), Goldman Sachs is moving Matthew Westerman to Hong Kong to become co-head of its investment banking division... [Read more]
  • Hester’s focus must be banking, not bonuses
    Tuesday 31st January 2012, 1:53am GMT
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    DAVID HELLIER
    AS THE debate over Stephen Hester’s RBS bonus continues, it is easy to forget the increasingly powerless chief executive has a business to run. One of the most crucial items on the agenda is the... [Read more]
  • Tips to take away from the Ruspetro flotation
    Tuesday 24th January 2012, 1:40am GMT
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    DAVID HELLIER
    THE successful flotation of Ruspetro, the Russian oil and gas explorer, is being looked on by many in the City as an opportunity to finally get a moribund IPO market off the ground. It’s the first... [Read more]
  • Five weeks for Hoare Govett to learn its fate
    Tuesday 17th January 2012, 12:29am GMT
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    DAVID HELLIER
    HOARE Govett, the stockbroker being sold by the beleaguered RBS bank, has already lost two blue chip clients in GlaxoSmithKline and Amlin as clients fret over its fate, so it is comforting to learn... [Read more]
  • There’s no let up in City’s race to consolidate
    Tuesday 10th January 2012, 2:24am GMT
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    DAVID HELLIER
    IT seems there is going to be no slackening of the consolidation process taking place in the financial advisory sector. Evolution has already been swallowed up by Investec, with fairly unpleasant... [Read more]
  • European banks face next big hurdle
    Thursday 5th January 2012, 1:38am GMT
    EDITOR’S LETTER
    DAVID HELLIER
    THIS is the deal of all deals, one of the many bankers working on the £6.2bn cash call at Italy’s largest bank UniCredit said to me yesterday. As far as those in the capital markets are concerned,... [Read more]
  • Onward and upwards in 2012 please
    Friday 23rd December 2011, 1:55am GMT
    EDITOR’S LETTER
    DAVID HELLIER
    AS the business year draws to a close, there is one last opportunity to reflect on what has gone before, and to consider what might lie ahead. In the financial world, 2011 will forever be remembered... [Read more]
  • Essar Energy needs board reshuffle
    Thursday 22nd December 2011, 1:42am GMT
    EDITOR’S LETTER
    DAVID HELLIER
    WHEN the London Stock Exchange tried a couple of weeks ago to reassure investors about the performance of recently floated companies, it did not dwell too long on the experience of Essar Energy, the... [Read more]
  • Oh Hoare Govett. What’s in a name?
    Wednesday 21st December 2011, 1:49am GMT
    EDITOR’S LETTER
    DAVID HELLIER
    I was told yesterday that a private equity group has approached a former star from Hoare Govett to look at ways of extricating the group from its troubled parent RBS. Though the identity of the... [Read more]
  • When toughened Code doesn’t apply
    Tuesday 20th December 2011, 2:26am GMT
    EDITOR’S LETTER
    DAVID HELLIER
    WHILE the Eurozone crisis is still dominating the agenda in the City, there are signs of returning interest in mergers and acquisitions, with some saying a mega deal on the scale of Kraft and Cadbury... [Read more]
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