Matthew Williams, Head of Portfolio Advisory
Matt is a Partner in the Finance and Restructuring team in London. Matt specialises in loan trading, portfolio sales (both performing and non-performing) and balance sheet transactions for financial institutions as well as buy-side participants and loan servicers in the secondary loan market and other types of debt purchase transaction.
Prior to his role at DWF, Matt was a corporate banker at a UK bank and was responsible for the design and execution of balance sheet deleveraging activities and regulatory capital solutions, and latterly the commercial lead for loan distribution.
Matt has acted on some of Europe's largest NPE/NPL transactions (buy and sell side) in both a commercial and legal capacity to an aggregate gross book value in excess of £50bn. These transactions include the strategic withdrawal by a UK bank from Ireland, Portugal and Spain and the first ever Cypriot NPE loan portfolio sale.
Matt has represented many other UK banks across a wide range of asset class disposals (in both debt and equity), driven by deleveraging and regulatory capital considerations, such as shipping, CRE, infrastructure and corporate lending.