LAURENT QUELIN

MANAGING DIRECTOR
REAL ASSETS / NATURAL RESOURCES / TRADE & PROJECT FINANCE
LONDON / EMEA

Laurent has over 20 years of project finance, structuring and investment experience in the natural resources, infrastructure, shipping and energy industries, leading transactions exceeding USD 25bn in aggregate.

He spent ten years within the Investment Bank of Credit Suisse in New York and London. During the last 5 years of his tenure at Credit Suisse, Laurent ran the London-based loan book dedicated to mid-size natural resource corporates, within the commodity trading business of the Investment Bank.

He then spent over five years on the buy-side at Chenavari Financial Group where he was a senior portfolio manager in charge of real asset and trade finance credit investments predominantly in the natural resources and shipping space, deploying in excess of USD 750m AUM.

Most recently, Laurent founded a boutique advisory business dedicated to real assets, where he originated investments opportunities for large asset management groups and acted as corporate finance advisor.

Laurent has an MSc in Mathematics and Economics from École Polytechnique in France and an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in the United States.