Paul joined SMBC in May 2016 as Head of Loan Capital Markets & Agency EMEA. He leads a team of over 45 professionals responsible for the Origination and Distribution of all syndicated loans within the region. More recently Paul has established a Loan Execution function which will look after documentation etc across the large part of the Bank’s operations. Additionally Paul is responsible for its Credit Risk Insurance business. The bank is active across all loan assets with particular focus on Project Finance, Emerging Markets and an increasing commitment to Leveraged Finance.

During the past 27 years, Paul has worked at a number of Banks (Natwest, Scotia Capital, BNP Paribas and UBS) and has always been focussed within the loan product. Having moved off the NatWest Graduate scheme he moved to Scotia Capital in 1994 specialising in the TMT space before moving into Syndications. From there he joined the BNP Paribas Loan Syndications & Trading team in 1999, shortly after the merger of BNP & Paribas, responsible for the TMT Sector (investment grade and leveraged).

From there he moved to UBS where he stayed for over 10 years within the Leveraged Capital Markets team. As a Managing Director at UBS he was responsible for all Syndicated Loans and High Yield Bonds with a particular focus on the Leveraged Market and large ticket Corporate M&A transactions.