Aurelio is a Managing Director at Kroll and co-leads the firm’s European & LATAM Restructuring practices.

Aurelio brings a solid track record advising in complex cross-border international restructurings and leading significant financial advisory engagements for debtors and creditors of large global corporations. Aurelio’s industry recognitions include TMA’s International Company Turnaround/Transaction of the Year in 2023 and Top 25 Restructuring Consulting Advisors in the United States by Global M&A.

Prior to joining Kroll, Aurelio was Senior Managing Director and Head of Latin America for Riveron RTS. Before that, Aurelio was Senior Managing Director and led the Corporate Finance Practice in Spain for FTI Consulting. Previously, he was head of Alvarez & Marsal’s restructuring practice in Spain.  Over his career, Aurelio has been involved in advisory roles for over €140 billion of restructured debt.

Relevant Examples of Experience

• Appointed by a large European conglomerate as leading board member to accelerate the divestment plan for their international operations, including dissolution and liquidation of the subsidiary companies; sale of assets and shares in subsidiaries and management of litigation in various jurisdictions in Latin America and Europe.
• Board Member and Chief Transformation Officer of a controlled-temperature logistics group operating in Portugal and Spain.
• Served as Chief Restructuring Officer for a subsidiary of Telefonica España which filed for an insolvency proceeding in February 2025 with total liabilities of over €1.3bn and was subsequently sold to a new operator.
• Led the team retained as Financial Advisor and CRO of Mercon Coffee Corporation, a Dutch global coffee producer and trader with operations in Brazil, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Netherlands, Nicaragua, US and Vietnam with net debt of €400mn, which filed for Chapter 11 in 2023, followed by a Brazilian RJ and a Dutch WOHA filings.
• For over 10 years led the team advising the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico within their bankruptcy including over €110bn in total liabilities, providing treasury and budget support and financial and cash planning for the central government and over fifty-one state-owned entities.
• Was Independent Board Member of Automotores Gildemeister, a multinational car dealership with €900mn in revenues and €600 million in total liabilities.
• Led the team advising the official Unsecured Creditors Committee in the Chapter 11 proceedings of LATAM Airlines, Latin America's largest airline with total debt of €20bn and operations in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, U.S. and Europe. 
• Was Chief Restructuring Advisor for Grupo Gallardo, a Spanish manufacturing conglomerate producing rebar steel, paper, and cement, with revenues of €1.3bn and debt of €1bn across seventy legal entities in Europe.
• Was appointed Board Commissioner by the creditors of a UK global printing and business services group with sales of €260mn, assessing the groups’ governance and solvency and determining the sustainable debt.

Markus joined ODDO BHF in 2018 and is a Senior Managing Director – Head of Private Debt. He chairs the Advisor Credit Committee and is responsible for the management and development of the Private Debt expertise of the group.

Felix is a Partner at Bright Capital and heads the Frankfurt based Private Credit Investment Team. He joined Bright Capital in 2018 and is responsible for originating, underwriting, and executing sponsor-backed and predominantly sponsor-less investment opportunities with a strong buy-and-build angle in the DACH lower-mid-market. Felix has >10 years of industry experience and, prior to joining Bright Capital, worked in Leveraged Finance at HSBC, where he focused on structuring and executing mid and large cap sponsor-backed LBO transactions. Felix started his career in Investment Banking, holds a Master of Science in Finance and studied in Germany, the US and France.

François Lacoste is Managing Partner in charge of the Debt activity.

Prior to joining the Group in 2008, he worked in the Acquisition & Leverage Finance business at Fortis Bank, in France and Belgium, after having launched the Acquisition Finance department in France. He began his career in the Acquisition Finance department of Banque Worms (Deutsche Bank group).

François holds a degree from Paris-Dauphine University (Master II degree in Banking and Finance).

Senior Originator, Global Private Finance 

Joseph Plank is a Managing Director in Barings’ Global Private Finance Group. Based in London, he is responsible for originating, executing, and monitoring European private finance investments. Joseph has worked in the industry since 2010 and most recently as a senior originator on Ardian’s private credit team. There, he originated and executed debt facilities for mid-market European sponsor-backed borrowers and was responsible for the end-to-end investment process, including origination, execution, monitoring, and work-out. Prior to that, he worked at GE Capital and SMBC following its acquisition of GE Capital, holding a range of roles including senior originator with a focus on UK, Benelux, and the Nordics. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English from the University of Leeds.

Roelof Steenekamp is a Managing Director in Fitch Ratings’ infrastructure and project finance group. He is based in London and leads Fitch’s Complex Credit Group (CCG) and co-heads the Structured Cross Sector team, focusing on defining rating approaches globally on non-standard and specialized corporate, infrastructure and project finance transactions, including for digital and alternative infrastructure.

Roelof has over 25 years of credit experience in the financial sector, including over 16 years at Fitch where he held various senior level roles across the group, including six years as the Group Credit Officer (GCO) for the EMEA Corporate, International Public Finance and EMEA and APAC Infrastructure rating groups and heading up the global Corporate data analytics and research efforts. Prior to Fitch, he was a Senior Risk Manager at Rand Merchant Bank and was responsible for developing and implementing Basel II risk approaches at Investec Bank and ABSA Bank in South Africa. Roelof has a postgraduate honours degree International Finance and an undergraduate degree in Commerce from the University of South Africa. 

Ms. Moore joined Golub Capital in 2020 and is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Direct Lending Europe. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of European transactions for the Firm. Prior to joining Golub Capital, Ms. Moore was a Managing Director in the Corporate Credit Group at Guggenheim Partners, where she led the direct lending origination business in Europe. Previously, she was the Head of Debt Finance in London for Barclays, where she was responsible for providing debt solutions for middle market corporations and sponsor-led transactions. Ms. Moore has also worked at Versatus Advisors, Nomura, West LB and Societe Generale. Ms. Moore earned her BA in Commerce from University College Dublin. She received an MSc in Finance from the Smurfit Graduate Business School at University College Dublin.

Vivek Paul, FIA, Managing Director, is Head of Portfolio Research and UK Chief Investment Strategist for the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII).  The BII leverages BlackRock’s expertise and produces proprietary research to provide insights on the global economy, markets, geopolitics and long-term asset allocation – all to help clients and portfolio managers navigate financial markets.  Mr Paul leads BII's Portfolio Research group, which is responsible for developing the core principles and intellectual property that underpin BlackRock's approach to portfolio design, such as capital market assumptions and optimization tools.  Vivek is part of BII's Global Leadership team.  

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2013, Mr. Paul worked at Towers Watson as an investment consultant, where he specialized in advising pension funds and corporate clients on liability hedging derivative arrangements, financial modelling and investment strategy. He began his career at Hewitt Associates in 2005. Mr. Paul earned an MMath degree in Mathematics from the University of Warwick in 2005, with first class honours. He earned an MSc in Actuarial Finance from Imperial College, London, in 2008 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries 

Nicolas Nedelec is a Partner. He sources, analyzes and executes investments in Private Debt. Prior to joining the Group in 2007, Nicolas worked at Natixis in the Structured Finance team. Nicolas graduated from ESSEC (Paris / Singapore).