Richard Girling is one of Europe’s leading healthcare investment bankers with over 30 years of experience and has advised on many of the largest healthcare transactions in Europe, the US and Asia.

Richard is a Partner in the London office of Centerview Partners where he co-founded the global Healthcare practice and established the firm’s European business in 2009. Prior to this he established Merrill Lynch’s European healthcare practice in 1998, and was Global Co-Head of Healthcare investment banking for the last six of those years. Following the acquisition by Bank of America, he was appointed the head of the merged Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific healthcare practices for the combined organization. Richard joined Merrill Lynch from Salomon Brothers, where he worked from 1989 to 1998 and was head of the European Pharmaceutical and Healthcare team.

Richard is an Honorary Fellow of St Anne‘s College, Oxford University and a member of the Executive Advisory Board for the Centre for Personalised Medicine at Oxford University. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Biochemistry from Oxford University.