Oliver Drews is Vice Chairman International at CFAW and a member of its Executive Committee. His focus is on buy-side M&A strategies into North America, predominantly for large European and Japanese corporates.
Combining Oliver's deep insights into multinational corporations and strategic advisory experience with CFAW's track record with middle-market businesses and nation-wide footprint in the US and Canada enables large corporations to access privately owned companies in North America and the execution excellence required to successfully conclude transactions in this very specific market.
Oliver has more than 30 years of experience in investment banking. Previously, Oliver was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse in Frankfurt and London, and a Managing Director at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in Frankfurt, London, Singapore and Tokyo. He is also the founder and Managing Partner of Clifftop Colony, a Cape Town based firm focused on M&A in Emerging Markets.
Oliver holds a BA Hons
degree in Economics, Law and Politics from the University of the Witwatersrand
in Johannesburg and a MA degree in international economics from Johns Hopkins
University's School of Advanced International Studies headquartered in
Washington DC.
