This onstage duel between Mike Dennis, Partner at Ares Management and Stuart Mills, Head of Middle Market Financial Sponsor Coverage at HSBC took a closeup look at the dynamics inside bank-fund tie-ups.
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Mr. Dennis is a Partner in the Ares Credit Group, where he focuses on the group’s European activities. Additionally, Mr. Dennis serves as a member of the Management Committee of Ares, the Ares Credit Group’s European Direct Lending Investment Committee and other select Ares Credit Group investment committees. Prior to joining Ares in 2007, Mr. Dennis was Head of the London Financial Sponsor Group at Barclays Bank, where he focused on originating middle market financing opportunities. Mr. Dennis holds a B.Sc. from the University of Nottingham and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and an M.B.A., with high honors, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Stuart is Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage for the UK Mid-Market. Prior to this role he was a Senior Director for 10 years in the Leveraged Finance team completing over 100 deals developing HSBC from a small participant to be the market leader in the UK mid-market.
Prior to HSBC, Stuart spent 7 years in M&A in both KPMG and EY focussing on the private equity market.
Stuart also sits on the board of the Entrepreneurs Exchange.
Reporter for Debtwire’s mid market desk since August 2014. Emma has worked as a print and broadcast
journalist for 10 years focussing on the financial and political sector. Previous employees include Euromoney,
BBC News, Sky News and UTV. Emma holds an LLB qualification from King’s College London and an MSc in
International and European Politics from the University of Edinburgh.
