Managing Partner Paul is the Managing Partner of Hammond Partners and has led assignments across all practice areas since 2006. Paul focuses on senior roles across all practices, with a particular focus on Investment Banking, Equities, all aspects of Asset Management and Private Equity. Prior to Hammond Partners, he spent 20 years in Investment Banking, primarily in Equities Sales and Trading. He started his career in Equity Sales in 1981 at L. Messel & Co, moving to James Capel in 1984. In 1988 he moved to Goldman Sachs to build their Equities presence in Europe, and was co-Head of UK Equities. In 1995 he moved to Morgan Stanley as Head of UK Equities. He represented both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley at LIBA, and sat on the London Stock Exchange Markets Committee. Paul read PPE at Christ Church, Oxford.