Many Waters Capital is an independent debt advisory business, focused on delivering the best financing, refinancing or restructuring outcomes for clients.

Richard is a Founding Partner of Many Waters Capital. Prior to this he has most recently been a Senior Consultant at EMFC, executing bespoke loan financings. He previously worked at Standard Bank in London, Johannesburg and Hong Kong. In his final role as Head of Diversified Lending and Leverage he ran a team of 45, using the balance sheet as the strategic entry point to cross sell M&A, ECM, DCM, Transactional Product Services and GM.

In Hong Kong Richard was the Head of Debt Products for Asia Pacific, which under his leadership rapidly became the most successful division of Global Investment Banking. During his time in Hong Kong, Richard was promoted to the Board, and then to Deputy Chief Executive Officer, and was a member of the Executive Committee, Credit Committee and Clearance in Principle Committee. The team completed complex landmark transactions, offering bespoke funding transactions adapted to clients’ needs.

Richard previously set up and ran the Global Telecoms Finance team for Standard Bank in London and began his career at Lloyds Bank, Corporate Banking and Treasury. Richard’s forte is understanding complexity, whilst being able to simplify it to ensure that the key issues always remain the topic of focus and the transaction reaches a successful conclusion. He holds an MBA from The University of Bath and a BSc (Hons) Economics from City, University of London.

Rob joined Many Waters Capital in 2024 after three years at PwC where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Whilst at PwC, Rob primarily worked with clients in the Construction and Real Estate sector. Rob also spent time in the Debt and Derivative Valuations team, working on the valuations of complex financial instruments and illiquid debt.

Rob graduated from the University of Exeter with a BSc in Accounting and Finance.

Andy is an experienced Leveraged Finance, Structured Banking and Private Equity coverage banker. Before joining Many Waters Capital, he worked for HSBC for over 30 years across the UK, North America, Middle East and Continental Europe and gained a broad industry knowledge.  

He founded and led HSBC’s Middle Market Leveraged Finance team in New York and, most recently, was Head of Middle Market Leveraged Finance for Continental Europe.  In both these most recent roles, he was responsible for the origination, execution and portfolio management of Private Equity backed Leveraged and Structured Finance transactions including Public to Private, LBO, Recapitalisations, Refinancings and Buy and Builds.  

Andy has a detailed knowledge of structured banking transactions, IPO`s, syndicated loans, private placements, bonds and global capital markets and strong analytical/ financial, commercial and compliance skills.

He has led teams and managed complex credit portfolios through financial and economic cycles and has a knowledge of restructuring gained through navigating leveraged lending books during times of volatility and across multiple geographies.

Sarah has over 20 years PA experience at board level across a variety of sectors both in the UK and overseas.

She began her career in the music industry before moving into advertising.  Sarah worked at BBH for 16 years. She was EA to the CEO as well as being responsible for all client marketing, events & conferences.

Sarah studied Business and Finance at the University of Westminster.

David set up Many Waters Capital in 2013 to provide debt and strategic advisory services. He is a senior debt banker with 30 years’ experience of leading transactions and senior management in international banks. David began his banking career at Morgan Grenfell, which subsequently became Deutsche Bank, after studying a Bachelor of Laws and Diploma in Legal Practice at The University of Aberdeen and completing his traineeship at Bird Semple Fyfe Ireland.

Whilst at WestLB, David established the pre-eminent team in future flow securitisation that formulated and closed the first ever Diversified Payments Rights (DPR) transaction creating an US$80 billion market. His team closed over US$10 billion of transactions worldwide. David ran Global Emerging Markets at WestLB, responsible for all business teams, subsequently over 300 people, and regional businesses.

In 2008 he moved to Standard Bank as Global Head of Securitisation prior to being appointed Global Head of Debt Products, responsible for all lending worldwide in the Global Investment Banking Division. David chaired or sat on 31 governance committees at Standard Bank, but much prefers closing transactions and working with clients.

Omer is an experienced debt finance and credit professional having worked in a wide variety of roles including Leveraged Finance, Private Debt Finance and Structured Finance for prestigious financial institutions.

Prior to joining Many Waters Capital, Omer was a Director in the Leveraged Finance team at Barclays and before that a Vice President in the Leveraged Finance team at Nomura. He led several high profile transactions in these two top tier leveraged finance houses arranging capital to support leveraged buyouts, M&As, refinancings and dividend recapitalisations. His extensive deal origination and execution experience involved UK, European and cross-border transactions involving multiple products (Bonds, Term Loans, Bridge Facilities and RCFs) across multiple sectors and complex structures and covering a broad spectrum of mid to large cap companies being private-equity backed, privately owned and publicly listed.

Previously, Omer was a member of the Structured Finance & Private Capital team at Deutsche Bank, providing capital for situations where traditional capital markets solutions was not available due to transaction size, risk profile, complexity, disclosure requirements or issuer track record. He led the execution of many complex transactions and structures including direct lending at various levels of the capital structure (super senior, senior, junior and mezzanine), securitisations and contract monetisations as well as complex derivative overlay structures. 

Omer holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Distribution – Senior Advisor

Matthew is an experienced banker with considerable leveraged finance expertise, particularly as regards the distribution and placement of debt products. He has held senior positions at a number of leading financial institutions. 

Most recently at Cantor Fitzgerald where he helped develop its European leveraged loan and high yield sales & trading platform. Prior to this he was Co-head of European Leveraged Finance at Nomura where he established a leveraged loan capital markets function for the firm. He moved to Nomura from WestLB where he headed the loan syndication & sales function for all leveraged finance and structured TMT loan product in the EMEA region.  

His earlier banking career was spent in emerging markets fixed income at Goldman Sachs, West Merchant Bank and Standard Chartered Merchant Bank.

He graduated in Law from the University of Sussex, is a qualified Barrister and holds an MBA from Imperial College Management School.  

Kartar has a range of experience within advisory, credit ratings and direct lending. Prior to joining Many Waters Capital, he worked at Centrus in the Infrastructure advisory team focusing on renewables and utilities. Prior to that he worked at high-yield asset manager Alcentra in the Direct Lending team where he was responsible for monitoring investments and supporting portfolio workouts. Kartar started his career at Fitch Ratings as a credit analyst in the EMEA Industrials & Real Estate team covering mostly leveraged loans. 

Kartar graduated from the University of Manchester with a BSc in Economics.