David Waring
Senior Managing Director
David Waring is a Senior Managing Director of Evercore Partners based in London with 23 years of corporate finance experience leading Evercore’s Energy Team in Europe. Mr. Waring was previously a Partner and Managing Director at Lexicon Partners, the corporate finance advisory business which was acquired by Evercore in 2011.
Since joining Lexicon in June 2009, Mr. Waring has advised on a number of transactions including the IPO of Ophir Energy on the London Stock Exchange; the restructuring of oilfield services company KCA Deutag; advising TNK-BP on its US$1.8billion acquisition of BP's upstream assets in Vietnam and Venezuela; and advising the largest independent shareholder of Venture Production, 3i, in respect of the £2billion hostile takeover by Centrica PLC of Venture.
Prior to joining Lexicon, Mr. Waring was a Managing Director at UBS Investment Bank, which he joined in 2005, where he was Head of the Energy, Power and Utilities Group in EMEA and a member of the Management Committee for UBS Investment Banking in EMEA. Prior to this Mr. Waring worked at Deutsche Bank and consolidated entities for 12 years where he was a Managing Director and Head of Energy from 2003 to 2005.
During his time at UBS and Deutsche, Mr. Waring advised on a wide range of transactions in the oil and gas industry including the merger of Statoil and Hydro; nearly $10bn of acquisitions and divestments by BP: acting as defence adviser to Burren on the $3.5bn takeover by ENI; the restructuring of Shell; the IPOs of both Petroplus in Switzerland and Eurasia Drilling in London; the acquisition of Encana UK by Nexen; the disposal of Ingolstadt refinery in Germany by ExxonMobil.
In his oil and gas focused advisory career, Mr. Waring has also worked for Wood Mackenzie as a consultant and for Robert Fleming Corporate Finance.