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.

Dominic Ashcroft is a Managing Director and the European Head of Private Credit Origination for Blackstone Credit and Insurance (BXCI) based in London. Mr. Ashcroft is involved in the origination, researching, structuring, and advising on investments. 

Prior to joining Blackstone in 2025, Mr. Ashcroft worked at Goldman Sachs for over two decades, most recently running the EMEA Leveraged Finance business where he was also a member of the Firmwide Capital Committee.  He serves as a Trustee for Street Child, an educational charity, and Radius, which helps forge community engagement in West London.

 Mr. Ashcroft graduated with a Double First in Economics from Cambridge University, where he was a Foundation Scholar and recipient of the Patrick Cross Prize for Economics.

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.

Florian is focused on European non-control distressed corporate debt situations with an emphasis on distressed and stressed credits in the German speaking markets. He is involved in all aspects of the investment process from origination and research to structuring and execution.

Florian has over 20 years of relevant experience across a broad range of industries including chemicals, building materials and general industrials. He spent the majority of his working life in European distressed debt investing but also has experience in principal investing and management consulting.

Prior to joining Bayside in 2020, Florian spent 14 years at Strategic Value Partners, a distressed and deep-value investment firm, where he was a Managing Director. Prior to this, Florian was an Associate Director at Carlyle Group Private Equity and a Senior Associate at McKinsey & Company.Florian earned a German law degree from the University of Hamburg and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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).

Giulia Migliori is a Co‑Portfolio Manager within the Indirect Private Debt team at Generali Asset Management. She is involved in the selection, execution, and monitoring of investments, including direct investments through a fund‑of‑funds strategy and credit secondary transactions through the Private Credit Secondaries Fund. Giulia covers a broad range of asset classes, including Direct Lending, Credit Opportunities, Asset‑Based Lending and Credit Secondaries. She has over 10 years of experience across private debt markets, complemented by exposure to leveraged loan and high‑yield bond strategies. Giulia holds an MSc in Management from Bocconi University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Management from Università Cattolica.

Greg Ciesielski joined HarbourVest in 2007 and is currently Managing Director and head of the firm’s Credit Secondaries team, focusing on global secondary investments across a variety of transaction types. Based in Boston, he has also gained international experience at the firm’s London and Hong Kong offices.

Greg has played a pivotal role in several major secondary transactions, including the acquisition of SVG plc’s investment portfolio. He also serves on the advisory boards of several funds, such as Inflexion Private Equity Partners and Triton Partners. In addition, he leads the firm’s sustainable investing initiatives for secondary investment activities globally.

Prior to joining HarbourVest, Greg worked at Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. as an investment banking analyst in the Global Healthcare Group in New York.

Greg received a BS in Business with a concentration in Finance from Indiana University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

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.

Magdalena has over 16 years of international experience in executing investments, portfolio oversight, corporate finance, and transaction advisory. Throughout her career, she has completed transactions on public and private markets valued at over EUR 13 billion. In her current role, she leads sourcing, execution and monitoring of private debt investments and serves as a member of the Investment Committee at CVI. CVI is the leading private debt manager in Central Europe with over EUR 1.1 billion in AUM. Prior to CVI, she gained investment banking experience at Lehman Brothers and Nomura in London, and later she led the Corporate Finance division at Kulczyk Investments. Magdalena holds Master’s degree in Finance from ESCP Europe, with studies undertaken in London, Madrid, and Paris. She also graduated from Harvard Business School (PLD, EMBA equivalent) and the Poznań University of Economics.

Martins is an Investment Partner responsible for origination and execution of private credit secondary investments. He is based in the firm’s London office.

Prior to joining Coller Capital in 2010, Martins was a Senior Investment Executive at Hanseatic Capital, a mezzanine investor in Central and Eastern Europe and the Nordics. Previously, he was a Senior Consultant with Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory group.

Martins has a BSc in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics (Riga), and an MBA (with Distinction) from the University of Oxford.

Natalia Tsitoura is Partner, Capital Solutions and Head of Europe Origination in the European Private Debt team at Apollo. Prior to joining in 2020, Natalia was Managing Director at Alcentra in London where she was responsible for originating, structuring and underwriting senior and junior financings for companies across Europe for Alcentra’s specialist direct ending and mezzanine team.

Natalia graduated from Loughborough University in Business Studies.

Nicholas Stockdale joined Santander Alternative Investments in March 2026 as Global Head of Infrastructure Credit and has over 25 years of infrastructure debt financing experience across multiple sub sectors.

Prior to joining SAI, he spent 10 years working in senior asset management roles at Queensland Investment Corporation and Patrizia (formerly Whitehelm Capital), leading and closing numerous proprietary high yield infrastructure debt investments in multiple geographies, across two co-mingled debt funds and three SMAs. He was also responsible for fund raising across Europe and Asia and has significant experience in structuring multi and single investor debt fund platforms across multiple jurisdictions. 

Prior to those asset management roles, he held senior positions over 16 years at Barclays Investment Bank, closing more than 20 non-recourse / project finance infrastructure finance transactions, along with numerous corporate transactions across the credit spectrum (acquisition/bridge financings, term loans and RCFs). Immediately prior to his time at Barclays, he spent two years at Edison Mission Energy (the power generation subsidiary of Edison International) in their project finance team.

He is an experienced board member, serving as Chair of QIC’s UK subsidiary and has been a member of multiple fund entity boards and investment committees.

Nick is a UK national and began his career with PwC qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1997. He holds a BSC in Chemistry and Law (Combined Hons) and BA in Law (Hons), both from Exeter University.

Paul Atefi (London) joined KKR in 2017 and is Head of Origination for Credit & Markets in Europe, responsible for principal investments and capital markets solutions across the capital structure. He is a member of the Private Credit Investment Committee.

Ms. Zagajewski is a Managing Director at HPS Investment Partners. Prior to joining HPS in 2021, Ms. Zagajewski worked as a Vice President at Park Square Capital in London, sourcing and executing subordinated capital investments. Prior to Park Square, Ms. Zagajewski worked as an Analyst at UBS, where she focused on leveraged financing transactions. Ms. Zagajewski holds a BA in Economics & Management from the University of Oxford.

Robert is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for the Mid-Market Debt strategy. He is responsible for the selection, due diligence and structuring of new investments and the management of Pemberton’s existing mid-market portfolio.

Robert has over 20 years’ experience in credit markets and joins from Credit Suisse, where he was a Managing Director and Head of EMEA High Yield Syndicate. At Credit Suisse, Robert was responsible for structuring, underwriting, and syndicating new high yield bond and leveraged loan transactions for financial sponsor and corporate clients across the globe. Prior to that, he held various credit-focused roles at Deutsche Bank and Wachovia Securities.

Robert is a CFA Charterholder and holds an MBA from Columbia University, US.

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. 

 Stuart has over 20 years of experience in the European leverage buyout market. He began his career working in the leveraged finance team at UBS, and then spent 9 years in the European mezzanine and private debt group at Barings investing in European middle market credit. Prior to joining Ardian he worked at TSSP, TPG's credit platform, as a Director helping develop its European private debt business. He is based in the London office.

Education: University of Warwick

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.

Vijay is based in our London office and has over 15 years of experience as a credit investor. He leads manager research for European private credit and helps steer the firm’s private credit efforts in Europe. He also performs due diligence on investment opportunities in credit, special situations, and distressed markets.

Prior to joining CA in 2022, Vijay spent most of his career in London with a few years in Mumbai and Hong Kong investing in the credit markets in the Asian region. During his career, he worked on credit teams at Citigroup, Post Advisory, Fidelity, and KKR, and has deployed over $5 billion across various types of credit—both public and private—and across credit cycles. He has also held several senior roles on credit committees, including overseeing restructuring situations across different jurisdictions. Previously, Vijay was a Partner at PwC, leading restructuring efforts in India where he managed one of the largest insolvencies in the country.

Vijay received his MBA from the London Business School, UK. He received his MS from Virginia Tech, USA and his Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Madras, India.

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 

Head of Leveraged Finance, EMEA – SMBC Group

As Head of Leveraged Finance, Dan is responsible for overseeing SMBC’s leveraged finance and private credit strategies across Europe. The business comprises over 100 investment professionals across four European offices, with $10bn AUM.

Prior to joining SMBC Group in 2015, Dan was a Managing Director in GE Capital’s European leveraged finance business and has 25 years of experience lending to private equity owned companies.

Laura joined Federated Hermes in November 2015 when the private credit platform was being established. Laura is the portfolio manager of the third vintage of Federated Hermes’ European Direct Lending franchise, as well as Junior Portfolio Manager of the second vintage. Laura is also responsible for managing the team of direct lending analysts. Laura sits on the Private Debt Investment Committee which considers investments across all direct lending strategies at Federated Hermes Limited. Laura joined from GE Capital, where she was an associate in its mid-market leveraged finance execution team. At GE, Laura focused on arranging financings for European private equity-backed acquisitions funded through senior, second lien, mezzanine and unitranche facilities. Prior to this, Laura worked for three years at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in its acquisition finance team in London, focusing on opportunities in European large-cap leveraged finance transactions and on portfolio management. Her previous role was at Allied Irish Bank in Dublin in its Corporate Banking North America division, in which she analysed US large-cap and middle-market leveraged finance transactions, and performed portfolio management functions. She has an Economics degree from University College Dublin, is a CFA charterholder and holds the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing.