Over recent years, significant developments across the debt markets have provided companies with an increasingly complex array of debt funding options. In particular, the alternative debt markets have grown rapidly with a wide range of new non-bank lenders entering the market with significant liquidity and new structures. Canaccord Genuity has leading debt advisory teams in Europe, North America and the Middle East comprising senior bankers with many years’ experience, both as lenders and advisors, providing high quality independent advice. We cover the full spectrum of bank, bond, asset backed and alternate debt and quasi-debt solutions and benefit from senior level relationships with over 150 lending institutions. This expertise, combined with the industry insights provided by our research and sector teams, enables us to gain a deeper understanding of our clients’ funding profiles and requirements which, in turn, enables us to optimise their funding structures.

Rapid developments in the debt markets

The debt markets continue to evolve rapidly creating a more diverse range of funding structures and providers.

Selected recent European transactions

Our European investment banking Debt Advisory team

Mark Slater

Managing Director

Mark has over 25 years of experience in the debt markets as a lawyer, lender and advisor covering leverage, project and asset backed financing across a wide range of sectors and geographies. Most recently, he led debt advisory at McQueen and the European private debt capital markets group at Houlihan Lokey. Mark started out as a lawyer, becoming a partner in the finance practice at Ashurst, before moving into leverage finance at Bankers Trust, Deutsche Bank and WestLB and leading European Sponsor Coverage at both WestLB and Nomura. Mark has an MA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University.

Denis Vidalinc

Managing Director

Denis is based in our Paris office and brings over 18 years of experience to his role. Most recently, he was Managing Director, Debt Advisory for Kepler Cheuvreux where he was responsible for building a Debt Financing team and originating and executing M&A and Debt Advisory mandates with a focus on PE owned mid-market companies. Previously, he was Global Head of Acquisition Finance for CM-CIC where he focused on lead arranger mandates for Small & Mid Cap transactions in France, led the firm’s participation in the leveraged loan markets for the UK, US and Asia-Pacific regions and also worked as a founding member of the Structured Finance Small & Mid Cap team within the French retail network for BNP Paribas. Denis has a Masters in Management from EDHEC Business School.

Doran Chernichen

Director

Doran is responsible for structuring and raising debt and other non-dilutive capital for corporate clients and has over 14 years of investment banking experience across a wide range of sectors. Previously, Doran worked as a Senior Advisor at Delphi Securities and began his career at Scotiabank where he developed one of the leading credit Total Return Swap (TRS) businesses in Europe as well as being integral in more than 20 structured credit transactions valuing more than US$3.5 billion. Doran is a CFA Charterholder and earned a B.Comm, with Distinction from the University of Calgary, Canada.

Julia Perroni

Director

Julia has significant experience in the European leveraged market, arranging, structuring and restructuring debt facilities and has over 10 years of investment banking experience. Before joining Canaccord Genuity, Julia worked at ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Ernst and Young in Paris and began her career at Société Générale. Julia has a MSc in Management from Ecole de Management de Lyon.

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