Team
Hugh Sandeman
Managing Director
London, UK
Hugh is a Managing Director at Langham Capital in FMCG, energy, infrastructure, industrials and international capital markets. He is responsible for a number of our senior client relationships across mergers and acquisitions and capital market engagements.
Hugh has over 20 years experience in investment banking, based in New York, Tokyo, London and Frankfurt. His sector specializations have included industrial companies, utilities, energy, and telecommunications.
Prior to joining Langham Capital, Hugh has had two roles specializing in finance for mid-sized Indian companies. He was managing director, senior coverage office for India with Jefferies International, and was previously head of business development for India for the London Stock Exchange.
Before focusing on India, Hugh was managing director and head of the telecommunications practice at Dresdner Kleinwort, where he had earlier specialized in merger and acquisition and financing transactions for energy and utility companies. He joined Dresdner Kleinwort after working in the merger and acquisition group at Merrill Lynch in New York and Tokyo. Hugh has worked on transactions in more than 15 countries.
In his first career, Hugh worked in 1977-1986 for The Economist, initially covering international capital markets, and then as the magazine’s Tokyo correspondent, World Business Editor in London and finally New York correspondent.
Hugh has a BA in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University, was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard, and has an MSc in sociology from the London School of Economics.
