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Ali Hassen
Managing Director
London

T: +44 0 207 634 3625

Ali Hassen is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in providing financial and strategic advice to clients in the energy sector. Ali has over 15 years of investment banking experience, having advised on and executed a variety of transactions including M&A, capital markets and restructurings and recapitalizations.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Ali held positions at Citi, Barclays and NRG Capital Partners, covering Energy and Natural Resources for clients across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Ali holds a B. Eng. in Computer & Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut and a MPhil in Computer, Speech, Text & Internet Technology from the University of Cambridge.

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Rick Haythornthwaite
Advisory Partner
London

T: +44 207 634 3500

Rick Haythornthwaite is the chairman-designate of NatWest bank and chairman of the Ocado Group as well as a non-executive director of the AA and a senior advisory partner at Moelis & Company.
 
After a 19 year career in the oil & gas industry with BP and latterly Premier Oil, he joined the Blue Circle cement group in 1997 with responsibility for Europe & Asia and then promotion to Group Chief Executive in 1999. Following a successful hostile bid defence, performance turnaround and sale of the company, he led the rescue of Invensys as CEO, then one of the world’s leading industrial controls companies.
 
He has since served as chairman of Mastercard Inc, Centrica, Network Rail and QiO Technologies as well as a partner at Star Capital. His past non-executive directorships comprise Cookson plc, Lafarge SA, Land Securities plc, ICI plc and Globant. He has also chaired the UK Better Regulation Commission, Risk & Regulatory Advisory Council and the Haythornthwaite Review of UK Armed Forces incentivisation. In the not-for-profit sector he has chaired the World Wide Web Foundation and, in the UK, the Creative Industries Federation, Creative England, the Southbank Centre and Almeida Theatre. He was educated at MIT and The Queen’s College, Oxford.

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Mads Jessen
Managing Director
London

T: +44 207 634 3707

Mads Jessen is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients across the healthcare sector with a focus on pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical technology and life sciences tools companies. Mads has over 15 years of investment banking experience, advising clients on a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts and capital raising solutions, as well as advising boards of directors and special committees.

Mads began his investment banking career at Credit Suisse First Boston. He holds a BSc. in International Business from Copenhagen Business School.

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Wouter Leemhuis
Managing Director
London

T: +44 207 634 3577

Wouter Leemhuis is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in advising clients in the energy sector and Benelux market. Wouter has over 17 years of investment banking experience.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Wouter held positions at Nomura and Lehman Brothers, covering the Natural Resources sector and Benelux and Middle-Eastern markets in London, Amsterdam and Dubai.

Wouter holds a M.Sc. in Business Administration (Finance & Investments) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Neel Malviya
General Counsel - EMEA & APAC
Chief Operating Officer Europe
London

T: +44 207 634 3527

Neel Malviya is a Managing Director and serves as General Counsel for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and APAC (Asia- Pacific) as well as Chief Operating Officer for Europe at Moelis & Company. Neel has over 25 years of experience as a lawyer in both private practice and the financial services industry. Neel’s responsibilities at the firm include working closely with our senior leadership to help drive the strategy and profitability of our European business as well as providing senior leadership to our businesses across EMEA and APAC.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company in 2010, Neel was head of the EMEA Investment Banking legal team at UBS Investment Bank and also worked at Linklaters in London and Stockholm. Neel holds an L.L.B. from the University of Leeds and a Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law. He is a Qualified Solicitor in England and Wales.

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Claire Newson
Managing Director
Head of Human Capital Management - EMEA & APAC
London

T: +44 20 7634 3647

Claire Newson is a Managing Director and Head of Human Capital Management at Moelis & Company specializing in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and APAC (Asia Pacific) where she’s responsible for driving HR strategy in the region. Claire has over 20 years of Human Resources experience as a strategic HCM partner across various advisory and financial institutions.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Claire held several senior Human Capital Management roles in BNP Asset Management in London, ICAP, UFJI international and Goldman Sachs. She began her career at the Institutional Sales Group at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and ED&F Mann in London and Bahrain.

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James Nichols
Managing Director
London

T: +44 207 634 3723

James Nichols is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in providing strategic and financial advice to clients across the services sector. James has extensive experience across M&A, equity capital markets, recapitalizations and other strategic advisory transactions.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, James was a Managing Director at DC Advisory where he co-led Business and Healthcare Services in the U.K., having previously advised financial sponsor clients. Before DC Advisory, he was a member of the U.K. Team at Credit Suisse and began his investment banking career at Investec. James holds a B.A. (Honours) in History and a M.A. (Distinction) in Finance Management, both from the University of Durham.

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Will Peters
Managing Director
London

T: +44 207 634 3730

Will Peters is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he focuses on clients in the tech, media, and telecom sectors, specializing in communications infrastructure and FinTech. Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Will worked at Barclays where he was a Managing Director and a senior member of the firm’s tech, media, and telecom coverage team in London.

Prior to starting his investment banking career at Barclays, he spent six years in the British Army, serving with the 1st Battalion, The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in Europe and the Middle East. Will holds an M.A. with honours in Modern History from The University of St Andrews.

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Matthew Prest
Managing Director
Co-Head of Europe
London

T: +44 207 634 3567

Matthew Prest is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Europe at Moelis & Company. Matthew has over 25 years of financial restructuring experience advising companies, financial sponsors, secured lenders and bondholders. Additionally, he has provided clients with other investment banking services including raising debt and equity finance for distressed and non-distressed companies. He has performed key advisory roles in some of the most high-profile, sensitive and complex situations in EMEA and Asia.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Matthew was a Managing Director in the Corporate Finance Restructuring team at Close Brothers Corporate Finance. Before that, Matthew was a Director of Restructuring at M&G Investment Management and a Senior Manager in the restructuring team at KPMG.

Matthew is a qualified chartered accountant and holds a B.A. in History from the University of Warwick.

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Chris Raff
Managing Director
London

T: +44 207 634 3583

Chris Raff is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in providing strategic and financial advice to M&A clients across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Chris has nearly 20 years of investment banking experience with extensive expertise in originating and executing strategic M&A mandates across a broad range of industries.

Prior to Moelis & Company, Chris held various investment banking roles at Deutsche Bank, including Head of UK M&A and Head of Sponsor M&A for EMEA. He started his career in the Corporate Finance Group at Deutsche Bank.

Chris holds a first class honours BSc in Economics from the University of Nottingham.

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Jean-Eudes Renier
Managing Director
London

T: +44 207 634 3674

Jean-Eudes Renier is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in providing financial and strategic advice to clients in the Industrials sector. Jean-Eudes has nearly 30 years of investment banking experience advising Industrials clients, including those in the autos, automotive technology, steel and mining, building products, paper and packaging and capital goods sectors. He has advised both public and private companies on a broad range of transactions throughout the corporate lifecycle, including mergers and acquisitions, equity issues and corporate restructurings.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Jean-Eudes led the Global Industrial Investment Banking business at Bank of America Merrill Lynch for many years and most recently served as Chairman of the unit. Before that, he focused on the basic materials sector at Morgan Stanley and at Lazard in Paris and London.

Jean-Eudes holds a MSc. in International Finance from Sciences Po in Paris and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.

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François Saint-Lo
Managing Director
London

T: +44 0 207 634 3726

François Saint-Lo is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients across the biopharma, outsourced pharmaceutical services (e.g. CDMOs, CROs and technology-enabled services) and HCIT sectors. He has extensive experience in M&A, with expertise in executing a broad range of transactions for healthcare and technology corporations and financial sponsors.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, François worked in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group and started his career in the Technology Investment Banking Group, both at Morgan Stanley.

François holds a Masters in Management from ESCP Business School (Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris).

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Caroline Silver
Senior Advisor
London

T: +44 207 634 3578

Caroline Silver is a Senior Advisor at Moelis & Company, having previously served as a Managing Director until 2020. Caroline has been in the investment banking industry for over 30 years, with extensive experience advising clients in the exchange and market infrastructure vertical as well as regulators.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Caroline was Vice Chairman of EMEA Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Previously, she was Global Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley in addition to a number of senior positions including European Head of Financial Institutions and Head of Restructuring. Prior to that, Caroline worked at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell.

Caroline serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director on the boards of Tesco plc, BUPA and Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. and the National School of Film & Television. She also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Barratt Developments plc, is an International Advisory Board member at Adobe, Inc, and is a member of the Foundation of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Caroline started her career as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. She holds a B.A. in English with Spanish from Durham University.

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Olena Sokolowska
Managing Director
London

T: +44 0 207 634 3690

Olena Sokolowska is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where she specializes in advising clients in the fintech, data and information services sectors. She has extensive investment banking experience, with expertise advising clients across Financial and TMT sectors on corporate finance matters, including buy-side and sell-side transactions, capital raises and other equity and debt structures.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Olena was an Associate at Quayle Munro, now part of Houlihan Lokey’s Data and Analytics M&A group.

Olena holds a B.S. in Economics and International Development from the University of Bath.

 

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Robert Sorrell
Managing Director
London

T: +44 207 634 3570

Robert Sorrell is a Managing Director and Head of European Financial Sponsor Advisory at Moelis & Company where he focuses on providing strategic advice to private equity funds and other financial investors across Europe. Robert has 28 years of investment banking and asset management experience.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Robert was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Private Finance Group at Goldman Sachs and Founder / CIO of an independent asset management firm.

Robert holds an M.A. from Cambridge University.