Dr. Gil Bar-Nahum - Managing Director and EMEA Head of Biotechnology in the Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Jefferies

Dr. Bar-Nahum is based in London and has over 20 years of investment banking experience and has executed transactions for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical technology, and life science tools companies.

In the last several years, Dr. Bar-Nahum has led the execution of more than 60 financings, including 30+ IPOs for foreign private issuers (on NASDAQ), raising more than US$5.0Bn. Since joining Jefferies in 2009, Dr Bar-Nahum has also advised on more than a dozen cross-border M&A transactions including the Advising Vaccibody on their recent partnership with Genentech for approx. $700m.

From 2002-2009 Dr. Bar-Nahum was part of UBS Investment Bank's Global Healthcare Group, based primarily in the US. Prior to that, Dr. Bar-Nahum worked as an Equity Research Analyst for UBS where he served as an Associate Director covering companies in the Life Science Tools and Biotechnology space.

Dr. Bar-Nahum received his PhD in Basic Medical Sciences from the Department of Biochemistry at the Sackler Institute of New York University School of Medicine. The subject of Dr. Bar-Nahum's doctorate work was published twice in the journal Cell. Dr. Bar-Nahum also received an MS from New York University’s School of Medicine in Cell and Molecular Biology and a BS from the University of Illinois in Microbiology.