Chris Peisch

Mr. Peisch founded ECM in 1999 and was a co-founder of ECM’s predecessor company H&P in 1994.
From 1987 to 1994 Mr. Peisch was an Executive Director of Morgan Stanley International, where he established the European investment activities for Morgan Stanley's private equity group.
Initially London-based, Chris sourced, executed, monitored and exited one of the early private equity transactions in Germany, the 1990 acquisition of Cargo Van GmbH.
Following this investment, Mr. Peisch increasingly focused on the German mid-market for private equity transactions.
He moved to Frankfurt with his family in 1992.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Peisch was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs International in London from 1985 to 1987, where he was responsible for debt capital markets coverage of Scandinavia and Switzerland.
He started his career as an attorney with the international law firm White & Case.
Based in New York and later in London, he specialised in corporate law and advised on a wide range of international transactions.
Mr. Peisch holds a Masters Degree in History and Economics from Oxford University (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
He is a member of the New York Bar.
Chris is a U.S.
citizen.