Morgan Stanley’s Nick Godhard heads to Barrenjoey Capital

The team at Barrenjoey Capital Partners is set to be joined by Morgan Stanley’s Nick Godhard. Picture: Supplied.

Morgan Stanley oil and gas banker Nick Godhard has jumped ship to Barrenjoey Capital Partners.

Mr Godhard is understood to have resigned from the US bank, where he has worked for 17 years, last week.

He has held the role of senior adviser for energy, resources, healthcare and industrials since March last year.

Prior to that, he was a managing director.

He had earlier worked at Merrill Lynch from January 1998 to March 2004.

The appointment comes after Barrenjoey also hired resources banker and Australia co-head Paul Early from Barclays.

Mr Early has been one of the few Australian bankers who have been Australian based and Barclays is a financial backer of Barrenjoey Capital along with Magellan Financial Group.

Barrenjoey launched as a new investment bank last year by top former UBS executives including the regional boss Matthew Grounds and his offsider Guy Fowler.

It is understood that the Australian-based investment bank has aspirations to grow its staff numbers to about 400 after already securing more than 200 recruits.

Some of the other high profile names to have joined the investment banking team are former Australian investment banking co-head Jabe Jerram and its local head of equity capital markets Dyson Bowditch.

UBS private equity banker Justin Dwyer has joined, as has Luke Bentvelzen from the UBS team, telecommunications and media banker Peter Nelson and infrastructure banker Jarrod Key.

From JPMorgan, financial services banker Anthony Brasher has signed on to work for the firm along with its head of real estate banking Rob Stanton.

Australian block trader George Kanaan has also joined Barrenjoey from UBS