Ekaterina (Katja) has worked for Rothschild & Co for more than 10 years after joining the Group in July 2005. Today she is Managing Director and Co-Head of the Debt Advisory team based in Frankfurt and is responsible for the DACH region. Katja has advised a large number of Private Equity as well as German and international corporate clients on debt structuring questions across a variety of different sectors and geographies.

Katja has started her career with Leonardo & Co. (today Houlihan Lokey) where she spent around four years advising clients on international M&A assignments. She then moved to Rothschild & Co’s German office and also spent one year in the London healthcare team.

Katja studied business administration majoring in finance management and controlling at Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Escuela de Administración de Empresas (E.A.E.), Spain and St.-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, Russia.

James is a Director in the Leveraged Finance group at Citi, based in London.

He has over 12 years’ experience in leveraged finance, having joined Citi in 2015 from RBS. Prior to RBS, James worked in audit and corporate advisory at Deloitte.

He is responsible for originating and executing high yield and leveraged finance transactions for sponsor-owned and corporate clients across Europe.

James is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds an MA from Oxford University and a Postgraduate degree from St Andrews University.

Jonas is a Director in the European Financial Sponsors Group and responsible for financial sponsor coverage in Germany. Jonas joined Credit Suisse in London in 2014 and is based in Frankfurt since 2019. Jonas’ previous professional experience includes M&A and leveraged finance roles in Frankfurt, Sydney and London at Nomura and Lehman Brothers.

Juergen joined HSBC Germany in July 2018 as Head of Leveraged and Acquisition Finance and was promoted in January 2020 to Co-Head of Corporate Finance & Capital Markets.

Prior to joining HSBC, Juergen Stein worked for UBS in London Co-Head of Leverage Finance Origination as well as for the major banks including Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank in London and New York. Juergen holds a MA from Johns Hopkins in International Relations as well as Dimplomkaufmann and MSG from Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet and Paris IX Dauphine

Laura, born in Romania, joined Jacobs Holding AG in May 2017 as an Investment Manager. In this capacity, Laura leads the financing projects of the portfolio companies and assists in sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities, executing transactions, and supporting portfolio companies in strategic and corporate finance-related matters.
Prior to joining Jacobs Holding AG, Laura was an Investment Professional in the Private Debt team at Park Square Capital, in London.
Laura graduated from the Grande Ecole program at HEC Paris, where she specialized in International Finance.

Simon is a member of the Financing Group. He covers investment opportunities across all sectors.

Prior to joining Permira, Simon was an Executive Director at JPMorgan in their Acquisition & Leveraged Finance division, in London. Previously, he worked for Barclays Capital’s Leveraged Finance team in Frankfurt, London and Hong Kong.

Simon holds a Diploma from the European School of Business, Reutlingen, Germany, and a degree in European Management from the University of Lancaster, England.