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JOHN KRISTENSEN 8 Court Lodge Sloane Square London SW1W 8AT +44 7786 917 802 / Nationality: Swedish Current Level: Associate I PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Merrill Lynch Investment Banking Division! Real Estate Group London. United Kingdom 3O2006 - 4O2008 2nd - 3rd Year Analyst • Worked on origination and execution of equity offerings (IPOs/Follow-Ons), Buy-Side and Sell-Side M&A transactions, Convertible Bond offerings. Fairness Opinions as well as pure advisory mandates • Main focus on European commercial real estate sector with transaction experience on mandates with an aggregate value of approximately S5bn • Selected transactions: Buy-Side of Land Securities Trillium [pending). IPO of PIK Group. Sell-Side of a Daimler real estate portfolio, IPO of Delek Global Real Estate Bear Steams Investment Banking Division / Financial Institutions Group London. United Kingdom 2O2005 - 3O2006 1st Year Analyst • FIG team focused on the alternative investments sector; permanent capital vehicles, hedge funds, fund of hedge funds, private equity firms, CDO managers as well as more traditional asset managers and banks • Selected transactions: MBO of Atlas Capital Group. IPO of Partners Group Global Opportunities. IPO of Caliber Global, IPO of Crownstone (pulled post-roadshow] Ernst & Young Corporate Finance M&A Division / Automotive & Industrial Products Team Diisseldorf. Germany 3O2004 - 2O2005 Internship • Worked on a Management Buyout of Framas; a German world-leading plastic component producer for the sport and leisure sector EDUCATION Gothenburg School of Economics, Gothenburg. Sweden 3Q2003 - 2Q2004 M.Sc. in Financial Economics • Masters Thesis: MBOs from an Agency Cost Perspective (Highest Grade) Gothenburg School of Economics, Gothenburg. Sweden 3Q2000 - 2Q2003 Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (exchange programme) B.Sc. in Economics • Bachelors Thesis: Financial Analyst Code of Ethics (Highest Grade) Lund University. Lund, Sweden 3O1999 - 2O2000 Two terms of Political Science and Arts History studies ADDITIONAL SKILLS Computer Applications: MS Office/Excel, Bloomberg, FadSet. Factiva, DataStream Languages: Swedish. Danish. English, German, Japanese PERSONAL INTERESTS Travel, art. tennis, shooting EFTA00725232