Meet the team

Gleacher Shacklock has approximately 40 staff including its partners.

Richard Slimmon

Senior Adviser & Chairman, Financial Institutions Group

Richard Slimmon is Chairman of the Financial Institutions business at Gleacher Shacklock.

Richard has wide experience providing advice on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and capital raising for financial institutions in the UK, Europe and the United States. His range of past clients in the financial institutions sector include banks such as Lloyds Banking Group, RBS, Santander, Rabobank and UniCredit, insurance companies such as RSA, Old Mutual, Friends Provident, asset management companies such as Schroders, Man Group and F&C and, in the specialised financial sector, the London Stock Exchange, Markit and LCH.

Prior to joining Gleacher Shacklock, Richard worked at Deutsche Bank, before which he worked at Merrill Lynch, latterly as head of the European Financial Institutions M&A business.

Richard has an MA and MPhil from Oxford University.