Barbara Ellero is a Partner and Head of Private Debt at Anthilia Capital Partners. She is also a board member of Anthilia Holding s.rl.l.

Barbara has extensive experience in advisory and private capital. She built deep relationships with a broad base of private equity sponsors, banks, advisors and management teams. In Anthilia since 2013, she pioneered the private debt market in Italy and placed over €1.3 billion in volume and 90+ deals, with direct lending portfolios healthy balanced between sponsored and non-sponsored deals. 

Prior to joining Anthilia, Barbara spent nearly 18 years in corporate finance in leading investment banks, where she was responsible for the structuring and execution of a wide range of structured finance and M&A transactions.

Barbara graduated summa cum laude from Bocconi University, Milan.

She is a regular participant in industry panels and contributor to various financial and other news outlets.

Miguel joins Oquendo in 2019 contributing with over 15 years of experience in corporate lending, acquisition finance and transaction services.

Prior to joining Oquendo, Miguel has been working for c. 10 years in Senior roles within the Structured Finance team of Caixabank where he led coverage for companies in regions of Central (including Madrid) and Northern Spain. He has been directly involved in the origination and execution of more than 200 deals in the Spanish Middle Market. 
Prior to this, Miguel worked from 2005 to 2008 in the Corporate Finance department of CEMEX being involved in the financing of the Group.

Founder of Ver Capital. Before establishing Ver Capital, Andrea earned 15 years of experience in fixed income and capital markets at Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Hill Samuel and Finprogetti. Andrea holds an MBA from SDA Bocconi University in Milan and graduated, magna cum laude, in Economics from La Sapienza University in Rome.

Ben Petkev is a Principal with the Carlyle Credit Opportunities Fund, focusing on private credit solutions, special situations and market dislocations. He is based in London.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Ben was a portfolio manager at PIMCO Corporate Opportunities Fund where he focused on corporate distressed credit and performing private credit solutions in the EMEA region. He began his career at Goldman Sachs where he was an Associate at the Leveraged Finance group in London.

Ben received a BSc (Hons) in Accounting & Finance from University of Warwick, Warwick Business School.

Giovanni Patricelli has more than 15 years of experience in high-risk situations through senior appointments in corporate and investment banking in Asia and Europe.

Mr. Patricelli has been involved in a vast range of mid- and large-cap transactions encompassing developed and emerging markets, distressed debt and high-yield finance, including ESG constructs.

Mr. Patricelli’s track record includes prominent financial restructurings across a broad range of industries like shipping, aviation/aerospace, food and beverage, transportation and infrastructure, entertainment and real estate. He has experience with in-court and off-court negotiations, business plan and capital structure reviews, debt/equity conversions, debt haircuts, cash sweep modelling, distressed financing and exit strategies via secondary market sales and M&A.

Mr. Patricelli has additional experience in leveraged finance. Prior to joining FTI Consulting, he was a director at the investment banking department at UniCredit, where he was in charge of origination and execution of high-yield bonds and private debt solutions for private equity, credit funds and corporates. Some of Mr. Patricelli’s most notable high yield bond engagements include International Design Group (luxury/design) €720 million, Engineering SpA (IT/digital) €605 million, Gamenet Group (Entertainment) €640 million and Doc Generici (Pharmaceuticals) €470 million.

Mr. Patricelli’s expertise also includes sustainable finance and he led the first-ever ESG rating-linked high yield bond in the Italian market.