Thomas Steinberger Partner - automotive transactions PWC

Since 2005 Thomas is working in the Business Recovery Services Team at PwC. Since 2009 he leads the Munich office in the area of restructuring advisory as a partner. Before, he worked as a Senior Principal at a top management advisory firm.

Robert Schach Managing Editor - Europe Debtwire

Rob manages the editorial team in London, overseeing the leveraged loan, high yield, restructuring and mid-market desks. He joined Debtwire in 2007 as a high yield reporter covering primary markets, going on to head the desk and ramping up its secondary market coverage. He became deputy editor at the start of 2011 and took over as managing editor mid 2012.

Prior to joining Debtwire, Rob reported for two years on the European securitization market at EuroWeek, where he covered new ABS asset classes such as catastrophe bonds, as well as the development and subsequent collapse of the sub-prime RMBS market.

He began his career as a chemical engineer, initially working as a research technician for ICI Explosives in South Africa, before moving to Europe taking up a technical sales role in the European industrial water treatment sector.

Paul Kuhn Head of DCM Origination Corporates BayernLB

Paul Kuhn joint Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) in 2010 as Head of DCM Origination Corporates. He and his team arrange Bonds, Schuldscheindarlehen, Hybrids and other Debt Capital products for German and pan European corporate issuers.

Major public transactions were the first ever green Schuldscheindarlehen or the second biggest Schuldschein transaction on record at the beginning of 2016.

From 1998 to 2010 Paul Kuhn worked for Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) as Senior DCM Originator for corporate issuers (2005-2010) and prior to this responsibility he was a relationship manager for corporates in the US and Germany (1998-2005). Before joining LBBW he worked for the Deutsche Bundesbank (1991-1998).

Kuhn has more than 25 years of banking experience and studied successful business administration in Germany and the Netherlands.

Raoul Hessling Corporate Debt Platform BNP Paribas

Raoul Hessling is BNP Paribas’ product specialist for Corporate Schuldscheine, coordinating the bank’s origination and execution activities across all jurisdictions. He joined the bank’s Corporate Debt Platform in October 2014. Prior to joining BNP Paribas, Raoul was a director within Commerzbank’s DCM loans group where he was responsible for coordinating the origination activities with respect to Schuldschein financing. He graduated as a Diplom-Betriebswirt from Hochschule für Bankwirtschaft in Frankfurt am Main (today’s Frankfurt School of Finance & Management). Raoul is bi-lingual in German and French and is fluent in English and Spanish.

Frank Grell Partner Latham & Watkins

Frank Grell is partner in Latham & Watkins’Hamburg office and chairs the German Restructuring and Insolvency Practice. His practice focuses on insolvency and restructuring, including corporate reorganizations, debt restructuring and out-of-court and in-court representation of creditors of distressed companies and investors in such companies, including in particular protective shield/insolvency plan proceedings and loan-to-own strategies.

JUVE names him as a “leading name”. Chambers Europe lists him as “key individual” and describes him as “highly experienced in cross-border restructuring cases.” 

HJ Woltery Managing Director SVP Global

Mr. Woltery is Co-Head of the European investment team having joined SVP at the opening of the European office in 2004. From 1985 to 2004, Mr. Woltery worked at Deutsche Bank in various roles, most recently as a Senior Research Analyst and Head of Research, Germany, in the London Distressed Products Group, where he was responsible for covering European credits across a variety of industries and jurisdictions. Mr. Woltery received a Diploma in Banking from the Bank Academy in Aachen/Coburg in 1991 and an MBA from the Ashridge Management College in 2001.

Matthias Mathieu Managing Partner Bright Capital

Before Matthias started his investment career he spent over 10 years in the German lower midmarket as CEO of the stock listed PEACHES GROUP. Previously he signed responsible for the international restructuring of a leading Austrian technology company. In the years 2010-2015 he headed the investment business of the Munich (GER) and Zug (CH) based Mountain Lake Investment. Thereafter he founded BRIGHT CAPITAL and serves since then as a Managing Partner.

Thomas Mayer Founding Director, Flossbach von Storch; Former Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank

Thomas Mayer is Founding Director of the Flossbach von Storch Research Institute. Before this he was Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank Group and Head of DB Research. Thomas Mayer held positions at Goldman Sachs, Salomon Brothers and, before entering the private sector, at the International Monetary Fund and the Kiel Institute. Thomas Mayer received a doctorate in economics from Kiel University in 1982. Since 2003 and 2015, he is CFA Charterholder and honorary professor at University of Witten-Herdecke, respectively.

Jan Klasen Director and First Vice President KfW

Dr. Jan Klasen joined KfW in March 1994 after concluding his studies of business administration at the University of Cologne. Prior to that he served an apprenticeship for two years with Deutsche Bank and gained working experience with Bayer AG in USA and Germany as well as with Deutsche Bank Capital Markets in Tokyo. After joining KfW, Mr. Klasen initially worked in the Natural Resources team as Project Manager focussing on Project Finance transaction in Latin America with. As Senior Project Manager he was engaged with telecom and satellite financing both in Europe and China, including the first domestic chinese project finance transaction without ECA-cover.

Following this he was seconded for two years to the German Ministry of Economics and Technology. He headed the project finance working group of the interministerial committee in charge for HERMES-cover decision and was in charge of aircraft finance. This responsibility saw him projects worldwide including South African ones. Back at KfW, he served as Vice President in the policy department of the Export & Project Finance division before returning as head of the team to KfW’s natural resources financing sector.

Since April 2005 Mr Klasen has new responsibilities as head of corporate strategy and development within KfW IPEX-Bank corporate affairs office.

Having obtained the first external rating of S&P for the newly founded KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH he returned to KfW itself heading since summer 2009 the Restructuring unit of KfW being responsible for all intensive care and non-performing assets of the promotional bank.

Oliver Kehren Managing Director Morgan Stanley

Oliver Kehren is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley in London and Head of EMEA SSG.  Activities include acquisitions/trading of distressed debt as part of portfolio and single name transactions and the restructuring/-financing  of distressed corporate and sovereign situations.  Oliver has extensive experience in export-/project-financing, corporate finance and financial restructurings.  He is Co-Chairman of the board of Gesellschaft für Restrukturierung TMA Deutschland e.V., an author of several publications on financial restructurings and a guest lecturer at several Universities.