South: Spectrum expands debt advisory team

Spectrum Corporate Finance has announced that Stuart Sweeney has joined the team as an associate director of Debt Advisory, based in London, bringing the Debt Advisory team to five experienced deal professionals.

With a background in banking at Lloyds and CIT Bank, Sweeney is an experienced corporate finance professional, who has dedicated much of his career to operating in the leveraged finance space, supporting both PE and corporate clients with their M&A, recapitalisation and refinancing activities across a broad range of sectors, both in the UK and internationally.

In his role at Spectrum Sweeney will work closely with Ian Milne, Simon Sherliker and the debt advisory team on all areas of debt advisory projects, including transaction management, document negotiation, management and lender presentations and financial modelling.

His appointment has been driven by the continued high demand for debt advisory services. This follows an exceptional year for the debt team, completing 24 transactions in 2019 and raising c£0.8 billion on behalf of management teams and private equity investors funding acquisitions, raising working capital facilities or refinancing and recapitalising existing debt facilities.

In 2019 the Spectrum Debt Advisory team was shortlisted for the second year running in the ‘Debt Adviser of the Year’ category at the Unquote British Private Equity Awards.