Senior Industry Practitioners Join LCM Partners from Standard & Poor's

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LONDON, Jan. 14, 2015/PRN=KYODO JBN/ --

LCM Partners Limited (LCM), is pleased to announce that it has hired two new

Directors from S&P to join its consulting team. Ilaria Vignozzi and Nadya

Aleshina have both started at LCM this month.

Ilaria is a senior analyst with 11 years' experience in credit markets. She

spent the last eight years covering securitisation and structured finance

markets at Standard and Poor's (S&P) Ratings Services. Prior to that, Ilaria

worked for three years in the Financial Institutions Group working on financial

institutions' ratings. She has an extensive knowledge of ABS, RMBS and Covered

Bonds and other complex structured finance products across European

jurisdictions.

Nadya was a Director within the Structured Finance team at S&P for 7 years,

where she focused on European residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS)

transactions. Prior to this, Nadya was a business analyst with Barclays Global

Investors in London and has held several research roles within the research

centre of Unicef in Milan, the EBRD and the World Bank in Moscow.

Farid Shavaksha, Director at LCM, commented:

"After winning the tender for the ECB's Loan Level Initiative back in December

2013, the quantum of work within our consulting group has grown substantially.

I knew that in order to take our consulting business to the next stage we

needed senior talent.  I have worked with both Nadya and Ilaria at S&P, I know

their strengths and experience and I was absolutely delighted when they each

decided to join our team here at LCM."  

Paul Burdell, CEO at LCM, added:

"I am thrilled that we were able to recruit two such high calibre candidates

and we warmly welcome Ilaria and Nadya to our team. Attracting this sort of

talent is testimony to our team, our work and the general appeal of the LCM

brand and especially the direction in which the firm is moving today."

Notes to editors:  

LCM Partners, a member of the Link Financial Group, has to date acquired in

excess of 1,800 portfolios representing over EUR 11 billion of face value.

LCM offers unrivalled expertise in Europe across performing and non-performing

loans through both its advisory and asset management businesses.  Over the last

four years, LCM successfully launched two consumer NPL funds with its

joint-venture partner, Insight Investment Management and in July 2014 launched

a new Credit Opportunities Fund under the LCM Partners brand.

The Group which was established in 1998 is majority owned by founders and

management, with its core leadership team being unchanged for over 12 years.

The Group has an unprecedented global reach, and has achieved an annualized,

averaged, unleveraged return of c. 13% over 16 years.

For further information please visit http://www.lcmpartners.eu

LCM Partners Limited

Paul Burdell

t: +44(0)207-793-2670

paulburdell@lcmpartners.eu

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Christian Pickel

t: +44(0)203-128-8100

SOURCE: LCM Partners