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The concept of a Migration Museum is truly compelling and critical to framing this complex and emotive debate.

Malik Karim

Malik Karim is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fenchurch Advisory Partners, a leading corporate finance and M&A advisory business specialising in financial services. He is a rare example of a British Muslim who has combined his professional and entrepreneurial skills to successfully establish a world class investment banking business.

Malik’s family arrived in the UK in 1972 as refugees from Uganda and eventually settled in Leicester where he grew up on a council estate and attended a state secondary modern.  He is a prize winning graduate from the University of Manchester who started his City career with Arthur Andersen and qualified as a Chartered Accountant.  In 1990, he joined merchant bank Kleinwort Benson in the Corporate Finance department and was promoted to Director in 1997.  He was recruited by Credit Suisse/DLJ in 1997 and was promoted to Managing Director prior to establishing Fenchurch in 2003.

Fenchurch has won several important industry awards including “Financial Services Adviser of the Year”, “Independent Corporate Finance House of the Year” and “Asset Management Deal of the Year”.  Fenchurch is consistently ranked first by volume of transactions and third by value of transactions by Mergermarket.  In recognition of Malik’s status as one of the most accomplished practitioners in his area of expertise, EY appointed him to a critical role as its Investment Banking Expert as part of its defence team when it was unsuccessfully sued by the Board of Equitable Life for £4billion.

In March 2018, Fenchurch formed a strategic partnership with Natixis, the international corporate and investment banking arm of BPCE, France’s second largest banking group. BPCE/Natixis is a long term shareholder in Fenchurch enabling the firm to accelerate its growth and offering enhanced capabilities to the increasingly complex and international needs of its clients. In 2023 Fenchurch established a US operation based in New York.

In June 2021, Malik was appointed by the Prime Minister as Treasurer of the Conservative Party and to the Party Board. He served three Prime Ministers until November 2022.

Malik met his wife Azmina at an airport queuing for a flight to Karachi and is married with two children. The family support several charities involved in promoting cultural cohesion and integration including Mosaic, founded by HRH King Charles where he was a Founder Donor and Board Member.  He also Chaired a project to set up a hate crime reporting unit prior to folding it into Faith Matters which he continues to support. He ran the London Marathon (very slowly) in 2008, raising over £100,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital, Chance to Shine (a charity promoting cricket in state schools) and the Aga Khan Foundation.  He is a competitive golfer and recently won a Pro-Am with partner Charlie Hull, the top-ranked ladies player in England.  He also enjoys watching cricket and football.