Hugh Sullivan
Head of Investment and Corporate Banking for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Nordic Region
Merrill Lynch International Bank Ltd

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Hugh Sullivan is the Country Executive for Bank of America in Germany and Head of Investment and Corporate Banking for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Nordic Region.

Since joining Merrill Lynch in 1997, Mr. Sullivan has provided senior banking coverage to a number of the firm’s largest clients and has held a variety of leadership positions.  He has led the firm’s America’s Origination (investment banking, debt and equity capital markets), Global Multi-Industries Group (investment banking for the aerospace and defense, automotive, building and building products, chemicals, diversified industrial, metals and mining, paper and packaging sectors), Technology Group and Global Principal Investment Origination.

Mr. Sullivan’s clients include global companies in the automotive, consumer, financial, industrial and technology sectors. He has been involved in a wide variety of financing, merger and acquisition and takeover defense assignments.  In recent years, he has led over $100 billion of M&A, debt, equity and equity-linked financings for clients that include Electronic Data Systems, General Electric Company, General Motors Corporation, Masco Corp., Ingersoll-Rand, Textron Financial Corporation and others.

Mr. Sullivan began his investment banking career in The First Boston Corporation’s Mergers and Acquisitions Group.  He subsequently led the buyout of Kalfact Plastics Company, a plastic injection molder serving the automotive, appliance and office furniture industries. Mr. Sullivan was an owner and President of Kalfact Plastics Company until he joined Merrill Lynch in 1997. He has served as a Director of Briggs Industries, Inc., Blodgett Oven Company and Interstate Brands Corporation.  He currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Yale School of Management.