Christoph Bechtel

Christoph Bechtel is Head of Investment Banking for Germany & Austria at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, based in Frankfurt, and oversees M&A, IPOs, and financing across the DACH region. He joined Bank of America in 1998, after starting his investment banking career at Lehman Brothers in 1996, and spent around a decade in London—eight of those years in Merrill Lynch’s TMT team Christoph plays a pivotal role in shaping the bank’s strategic coverage and platform development in Germany and Austria . He holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the European Business School in Oestrich‑Winkel

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