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Comment: This is basically just a resume with some extra words thrown in. If all a source can say is "x held y position" and nothing more, that's not coverage, which is the requirement for most articles (there are a few exceptions, and this isn't one of them.) TURKEYDICAE🦃 19:29, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
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Knut Eirik Dahl | |
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 Knut Eirik Dahl | |
| Born | May 1967 (age 59) Norway |
| Education | Indiana University Bloomington (BS) |
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| Organization | Spencer House Partners.[1] |
Knut Eirik Dahl (born May 1967[2]) is an investment banker and Managing Partner at Spencer House Partners[3], a London-based boutique corporate financial advisory firm. The firm provides "strategic corporate finance advice, mergers and acquisitions support, capital raising and financial restructuring services, primarily to financial services firms".[4]. Dahl specialises in strategic transactions in the asset and wealth management industries.
Early life
editKnut Eirik Dahl was born in Norway in May 1967.[5]
Career
editDahl studied at Indiana University Bloomington from 1987 to 1990, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.[6]
In September 2005, Bear Sterns hired Dahl[7] as a Senior Managing Director in investment banking to focus on the asset management sector, focusing on hedge funds, fund of funds, and alternative asset managers.[8] While there, he was Head of Specialty Finance in the Financial Institutions Group.[9]
Dahl was then a managing director at J. P. Morgan, before joining Spencer House Partners as a Partner in September 2009.[10] [11]
While at Spencer House Partners, Dahl has advised on multiple notable mergers or acquisitions, including Vontobel's acquisition of TwentyFour Asset Management[12][13], Corient Private Wealth's acquisition of Stonehage Fleming and Stanhope Capital Group to create the world's largest non-bank wealth manager[14][15], BlueBay's $1.5bn acquisition by Royal Bank of Canada in 2010 to form RBC BlueBay Asset Management[16], Alpha Associate's €350m acquisition by Amundi[17], and Janus Capital Group's merger with Henderson Group to form Janus Henderson.[18][19]
Dahl has also worked at Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and Putnam Lovell.
References
edit- ↑ "About us - Spencer House House Partners LLP".
- ↑ "Knut Eirik Dahl, Companies House". 10 February 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
- ↑ "Spencer House Partners names Knut Eirik Dahl as partner". www.hedgeweek.com. 8 September 2009. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
- ↑ "Spencer House Partners". 10 February 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
- ↑ "Knut Eirik Dahl, Companies House". 10 February 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
- ↑ "Knut Eirik Dahl, Bloomberg". Bloomberg. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
- ↑ "The Churn". New York Times. 23 September 2005. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
- ↑ Editorial Team, Hedge Nordic (22 September 2005). "Bear Stearns hires Knut Dahl as managing hedge fund investment banker in Europe". Retrieved 19 January 2026.
- ↑ Orton, Ian (8 September 2009). "Lord Rothschild-backed asset management M&A boutique recruits new partner from JP Morgan". Retrieved 19 January 2026.
- ↑ Craig, Phil (8 September 2009). "Spencer House recruits funds specialist from JP Morgan". Financial News London. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
- ↑ Chandler, Beverly (8 September 2009). "Spencer House Partners names Knut Eirik Dahl as Partner". Retrieved 7 March 2026.
- ↑ Foster, Mike (25 March 2015). "TwentyFour cashes in on boutique sale trend". Financial News London. Retrieved 21 January 2026.
- ↑ "Vontobel Acquires All Of TwentyFour Asset Management". Wealth Briefing. 1 July 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2026.
- ↑ Burroughes, Tom (3 September 2025). "Stonehage Fleming, Stanhope Capital Under New Ownership". Wealth Briefing. Retrieved 21 January 2026.
- ↑ "Financial adviser to Stonehage Fleming on its combination with Corient and Stanhope Capital". Spencer House Partners. Retrieved 21 January 2026.
- ↑ Kar-Gupta, Sudip (18 October 2010). "Royal Bank of Canada to pay $1.5 billion for BlueBay". Reuters. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ↑ Agnew, Harriet (7 February 2024). "Amundi to buy private markets specialist Alpha Associates". Financial Times. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ↑ "Janus Henderson Merger Announcement Investor Relations". Janus Henderson. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2026.
- ↑ "Financial adviser to Janus Capital Group on its merger with Henderson Group plc". Spencer House Partners. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
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