Before joining Intesa DN has been Co-head of Structured Finance at UBI Banca Corporate & Investment Banking (ca. 3Y) and previously Co-head of Financial Sponsor Solutions Italy at UniCredit Corporate & Investment Banking (ca. 10Y)
- Head of 2 teams, one covering the Italian market and the other the International markets (mainly Europe and USA)
- Sourced, structured and completed >200 LBOs (Loans - small, mid and large caps - and HY Bonds)
- 15+ years experience in the Leveraged Finance and 20+ in Investment Banking
- Established relationship with substantially all financial sponsors active in the LBO market

Drew Rundus is a Partner in Clifford Chance's U.S. Securities Group in London.

Drew advises financial investors, issuers and underwriting banks in connection with debt and equity capital markets transactions and leveraged and acquisition finance matters. His experience ranges from high yield debt issuances to registered equity offerings and other public and private securities transactions in Europe, the United States and elsewhere.

Prior to joining Clifford Chance in 2014, Drew worked at White & Case in New York and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. He graduated magna cum laude from Notre Dame Law School and is qualified in New York.

Ed Eyerman is Managing Director and Head of EMEA Leveraged Finance at Fitch Ratings. He leads a team of analysts that cover over 300 European high-yield bond and leveraged loan issuers. The EMEA Leveraged Finance group provides leveraged credit analytical leadership to speculative grade ratings’ processes and publish regular research on market, jurisdiction and structural trends in European corporate speculative-grade public and private debt markets.

Ed began his career in 1994 as a sovereign and financial institutions credit analyst at Merrill Lynch in New York, where he provided fundamental credit research and relative value analysis on Yankee bond issuers. He moved to London in 1997, where he was an original member of Deutsche Bank’s global markets’ credit research department and subsequently its European high yield origination team. From 1998 to 2002, he worked in the investment banking division at Credit Suisse First Boston, principally in the European acquisition and leveraged finance group. He joined Fitch in 2003.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York.

Eduardo is a managing director in the EMEA Leveraged Finance Group within the Investment Banking Division, where he focuses on debt financings, including leveraged buyouts and corporate transactions for technology, media, telecommunications, financial institutions, real estate and gaming companies. He joined Goldman Sachs as an associate in 2015 and was named managing director in 2021.

Prior to joining the firm, Eduardo worked at UBS and Barclays.

Eduardo earned a BA in Business Administration and a master's degree in Finance from ESADE, Barcelona, in 2008 and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2013.

With wide experience in the banking and finance field, Ferdinando Poscio regularly works on some of the most complex leveraged finance and restructuring transactions in the Italian market. He is specialised in general and syndicated lending, structured and acquisition finance and restructuring.

Filippo Emanuele is a renowned expert and a leading lawyer in the capital markets arena, specializing in debt and equity capital markets, as well as corporate finance.

An Italian and English native speaker, he is dual-qualified, as an avvocato in Italy and a solicitor in England and Wales.

Thanks to his multicultural background, combined with his broad expertise in capital markets, he is a recognized international expert in the field.

Francesco is a Senior Advisor to Pemberton since 2015 and assists the firm in with origination in Southern Europe. He is also a member of the Credit Review Committee.
Francesco has over 25 years of experience in corporate and credit markets. He worked at RBS from 2002 and 2010, where he was Managing Director, Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking and member of the Italian Executive Committee.
He started his career at JPMorgan Chase where he worked for 5 years across various coverage and product roles within Investment Banking.
Francesco gained an honours degree in Economics and Business administration from La Sapienza University of Rome. He then attended Harvard Business School Executive Education programmes. He also served as Air Force officer before starting his career in financial services.

Francesco Vitulano is a Managing Director in Blackstone Credit, based in Milan. He leads the origination, execution and monitoring of private debt investments in Italy. Before joining Blackstone in 2012, Mr. Vitulano worked within the Investment Team at Harbourmaster Capital Management for 5 years where his primary responsibilities included analyzing credit investment opportunities. Mr. Vitulano received a BSc in Financial Market Management from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) in 2005

Gary Simmons is the Managing Director of the AFME High Yield division, for which he leads AFME’s efforts to lower costs and increase efficiency in the execution of high-yield transactions, and lobbies for the reform of corporate insolvency laws. He also heads the AFME Prime Services division, which monitors business, legal and regulatory issues affecting the prime brokerage industry, and provides advocacy for member positions.

Gary is a New York-qualified lawyer and was previously a senior associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. After an initial period in New York, Gary spent several years in London, gaining extensive experience in cross border and emerging markets debt transactions, particularly high-yield bond issuances and leveraged loans.

Gary has a Juris Doctor from Rutgers University School of Law (with honors) and a Bachelor of Arts (with highest honors) from Rutgers University. Following law school, he was a law clerk to the Honorable William H. Walls of the United States Federal District Court, District of New Jersey.

Giuseppe De Palma is widely recognized as one of the leading senior lawyers in Italy for debt in the context of private equity, infrastructure and real estate investments.

He has developed an extensive and in-depth expertise in leveraged finance, private debt and real estate finance, working with prominent financial sponsors, banks and alternative lenders on major cross-border transactions.

Since 2022 he leads the Global Financial Markets practice in Europe.

Jeff Lawlis advises companies, sponsors, and investment banks on cross-border corporate finance transactions involving complex structuring issues.

Mr. Lawlis serves as a go-to advisor to many clients on their full range of financing needs. He brings particular experience in leveraged finance and high yield bridge and bond transactions, as well as other debt and equity capital markets offerings, including private placements, and liability management transactions. Mr. Lawlis regularly advises on the financing aspects of M&A transactions, while also providing advice on general corporate and securities law matters.

Drawing on more than two decades of on-the-ground experience in Europe, Mr. Lawlis delivers sophisticated and business-driven counsel with a focus on the Italian, Spanish, and Greek markets.

Jill Concannon's practice is focused on corporate finance transactions, with a particular emphasis on high yield debt offerings. Clients benefit from her experience of representing sponsors and underwriters in connection with international securities offerings. These include a number of award-winning and landmark transactions that were firsts within their respective markets. Jill also has experience of representing clients in senior and bridge acquisition facilities.

Since 2019, Jill has acted as Vice Chair of the High Yield Division of AFME (the Association for Financial Markets in Europe).

Lisa Gundy is a Vice President in the Covenant Office at Moody’s Investor Service in London, leading the covenant analysis coverage across EMEA. She joined Moody’s in 2013, bringing over 10 years of financial services experience. Prior to joining Moody’s, Lisa worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse, having started her career at Deloitte & Touche.Lisa holds a BA (Hons) in History from Manchester University and is a practicing lawyer.

Makram has worked in investment banking for 20+ years between London and Milan. Makram started his journey at Bear Stearns in London in the IBD department followed by a move to join UniCredit where he helped set-up its High Yield Origination team responsible for the origination and execution of various High Yield transactions across UniCredit’s core regions. Subsequently he joined the Leveraged Capital Markets team in 2017 and in 2020 went on to head up the team responsible for the syndication of all leveraged transaction across High-Yield Bonds and Leveraged Loans. Over his 20+ years of professional career, Makram has gained extensive experience across a wide range of investment banking products through a variety of roles in Leveraged Finance, DCM and M&A. In 2023 Makram relocated to Milan with UniCredit in the same role.

Ricardo Coats is a member of Credit Agricole CIB’s European Leveraged Finance team with over 20-years of experience working with European leveraged issuers.

Simone Zacchi joined CVC in 2011. Simone is a member of the Private Credit team and based in London.

Prior to joining CVC, he was at Ares Management where he worked as an Associate since 2008 within the private debt group, evaluating investments and executing a wide range of leveraged finance transactions in the UK, France and Nordic Regions.

Simone holds an MSc in Corporate Finance and Accounting from Bocconi University, Milan.