What is "merchant bankers"

Usage examples of "merchant bankers".

Merrick, whom Charlie had never forgiven for causing him to sell the van Gogh, advised us to appoint Robert Fleming to be our merchant bankers in the runup to the flotation.

In Kwest Mralwe these ancient clans had mostly married into the great houses of the merchant bankers, though there were some that held aloof, selling the wool from such ancestral lands as remained to them, going formally masked to one another's parties, and brooding on the injustices of the modern world.

As you'll see, he hangs out a lot with merchant bankers in London, like a new kid learning the business.

At that point the door of the house opened and two very finely dressed Gentile merchant bankers whom I knew came into the room.

Paul's, Harvard '33, a decorated naval officer, and one of the most successful merchant bankers in the country.

I had tedious details about Massut Vere, who, despite the unlikely name, were one of the oldest and richest merchant bankers in the South, with interests in everything from tobacco, cotton and railroads to bioengineering, cable television and pizzas.

Bret had his own circle of friends minor aristocracy, international jet-setters, merchant bankers, and business tycoons.

I'd still have merchant bankers falling over themselves to lend me money.

John Lansdell, senior partner in the old firm of Lansdell & Lansdell, merchant bankers, lived thirty miles out of London, on an estate which had some good pheasant shooting in the park.

We called at Hoffer's bank, presented his cheque and had it converted to a bill of exchange to be drawn upon a firm of Swiss merchant bankers I designated.