Vodafone appoints new head of corporate finance
Mobile phone operator Vodafone has appointed Charles Butterworth as director of group corporate finance.
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Butterworth, 32, was previously director of the European corporate finance division at banking group UBS Warburg, specialising in telecommunications and corporate finance.
He will take on his new position at a difficult time for the corporate finance sector. Last month, a survey by Accountancy Age showed that corporate finance deals had nose-dived.
Statistics revealed the total value of deals worked on by the large accountancy firms in the first six months of the year had tumbled by more than 60%.
And with the news of job cuts looming throughout the industry, the outlook is grim – commentators do not see an upturn until the beginning of next year.
