Charlie Lytle, Chairman of Corporate Broking, Goldman Sachs

Charlie is head of Corporate Broking and Equity Capital Markets in the UK. He has more than 25 years of experience in banking, providing equity advice on strategic events to large companies throughout the UK. Charlie joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2016.

Prior to joining the firm, Charlie worked at Citi, Hoare Govett and Cazenove. Earlier in his career, he trained as a barrister-at-law.

Charlie serves as a trustee of the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust, a mental health charity focused on young people.

Charlie earned a BA in History from York University, a Diploma in Law from City University and is a barrister-at-law.

Claire Suddens-Spiers, Co-Head of Equity Markets Solutions, Rothschild & Co; Chair, TheCityUK’s Capital Markets Group

Claire has worked for Rothschild & Co for 27 years and Co-Heads Rothschild & Co’s Global Equity Market Solutions practice, which combines all of Rothschild’s public and private equity capital markets related capabilities. She is based in London but also spent more than a decade in Asia.

She has considerable expertise in managing complex and high profile transactions globally and is a specialist in advising on IPOs, equity capital raisings and sell-downs for corporates and governments across the world.

She has advised on more than 100 capital market transactions across Europe and the Middle East, Asia and the US.

Mark Austin CBE, Partner, Latham & Watkins

Mark Austin advises clients on a full range of public and private securities offerings as well as M&A and general corporate matters across multiple sectors. He leverages extensive experience to guide market-leading companies and investment banks on initial public offerings (IPOs), rights issues and open offers, placings, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate work. A recognized industry leader, Mark is a member and former Chair of the Listing Authority Advisory Panel, the practitioner panel that advises the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on primary markets policy and regulation issues. He also serves on the FCA’s Markets Practitioner Panel and The London Stock Exchange’s Primary Markets Group.