MEET THE ADVISERS
GERALDINE Murphy heads the oil & gas advisory team at Standard Chartered Bank and is leading the team advising Cove Energy.
She joined the bank in 2007 following the acquisition of Harrison Lovegrove & Co and has over 20 years of oil and gas deal experience.
Prior to joining Standard Chartered she was an executive director with CIBC World Market’s Oil & Gas M&A team in Calgary and London. She has advised on over $25bn of transactions in the sector including recently advising Chinese NOC Sinochem on the £532m acquisition of Emerald Energy and BP on the $7bn sale of assets in US, Canada and Egypt to Apache Corporation in 2010.
The broker for Cove on the deal is Cenkos with Joe Nally leading the team. The London School of Economics-educated executive joined Williams de Broe in 1976 as an investment analyst covering property and insurance companies. He went on to become an institutional salesman, covering a wide range of institutions in the UK and Europe. He has worked on a broad range of IPOs including secondary fund raising and takeovers and mergers.
Meanwhile Shell’s adviser is Morgan Stanley.