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Byline: Charoen Kittikanya
May 6--Crisis always begets opportunity, but just a handful of people realise it, grasp it and go on to prosper.
At the time of the economic crisis in 1997, which led 56 local financial institutions into liquidation and closure, Robert Mullis was one of a handful who bucked the trend and actually set up a business.
A former employee of three investment banks -- NatWest Markets, Paribas Capital Markets and Credit Lyonnais Securities (Asia) -- the British financier had managed fund raising, restructurings, mergers, acquisitions and other corporate advisory work with an aggregate value exceeding $3 billion. Having honed his experience and relationships with both international banks and local financial institutions, he screwed up his courage and founded from scratch Mullis Capital, an investment bank focused on the Asian corporate market.
That was in 1998, in recession-struck Bangkok.
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