Securitisation Event

Jan-Peter Hülbert has been Managing Director of True Sale International GmbH in Frankfurt since July 2018. Before that he was Head of Asset Based Finance – Corporates of Raiffeisen Bank International AG and responsible for Consumer Assets and Trade Receivables since September 2012. The asset classes included car loans, car leasing, equipment leasing and unsecured consumer loans as well as trade receivables. Since 2002, he has structured numerous public ABS bond transactions as well as various bilateral and syndicated securitisations for corporate clients, leasing companies and consumer banks. Mr. Hülbert holds a degree in business administration from the LMU Munich.

As Head of EMEA Structured Finance, Commercial, Matt is responsible for the delivery of strategy and has commercial responsibility for ABS, RMBS, CMBS, Structured Credit and Covered Bond ratings in the region. This includes the coordination of teams covering Research, Sales and Relationship Management, Investor Relations and Marketing.

Most recently he was Head of Structured Credit ratings, which included the assignment and surveillance of ratings of cash and synthetic CLO and CDO transactions, in addition to structures backed by loans to SMEs. Prior to his current role, Matt was Head of EMEA ABS and ABCP Ratings, with responsibility for a broad number of asset classes including Consumer Loan, Auto, Lease, Trade Receivables and Credit Card transactions. Since joining the Company in March 2007, he has also been responsible for the rating of structured transactions across a range of asset classes and jurisdictions, as well as authoring publications and the development of ratings criteria. Prior to joining S&P Global Ratings, Matt worked at HBOS for nine years, where he worked in a number of senior analytical roles in both Treasury ALM and Credit Risk functions.

Pierre has worked at Credit Agricole CIB since 2000 and has more than 15 years experience in ABS syndicate both pre- and post-crisis.  During this time he has managed more than 150 ABS executions.  From 2009 to 2013 he was Head of Credit Sales in Paris, leading a team of [5?] people focusing on French and Belgian institutional investors. Prior to joining Credit Agricole, Pierre worked at Credit Lyonnais where he held a range of interest rate trading roles on the treasury desk including inter alia FRA’s and Money Market Swaps. Pierre holds a Masters in Econometrics from the Sorbonne University and is a graduate of ENSAe.

Angélique Pieterse works as Senior Director at PGGM Investments, in the Credit Risk Sharing Transactions team. The CRST team manages a dedicated mandate, currently approximately € 6 billion in size, which invests in tailor-made bilateral risk sharing transactions with financial institutions.  Angélique joined PGGM in June 2007, after having worked at ABN AMRO Bank for twelve years, initially in wholesale lending with a focus on trade finance and as of 1999 in Capital Markets Fixed Income, specializing in credit bond and structured product sales to institutional clients.

PGGM is a leading pension fund administrator with origins in the care and welfare sector. PGGM provides pension management, integrated asset management, management support and policy advice for pension funds and manages around € 206 billion (June 2017) of pension assets.

Angélique holds a Master’s degree in Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Herman is head of portfolio management for the North Westerly CLO programme and other NIBC funds, which have an exposure to the leveraged loan asset class. Prior to joining NIBC in April 2005, Herman had worked as a portfolio manager and senior credit analyst for ING Capital Management, a US based CLO management platform. Herman was involved in structuring and managing early European leveraged loan CLOs.

Prior to that, between 1995 and 2000, Herman worked at NatWest Markets and Greenwich NatWest in a variety of investment banking and leveraged finance origination and syndication roles. Herman qualified as Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse (London) in 1995 and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

At Price Waterhouse, Herman was part of the audit and business advisory group for major international corporates in 1991 to 1995 and was involved in a number of corporate finance and corporate insolvency assignments.

Lilian Welling-Steffens, attorney at law and senior legal counsel, is a member of the Banking & Finance group. She specialises in secured financing, structured financing, restructuring and insolvency and is an expert in the area of private international law. She previously worked for Loyens & Loeff from 1997 through to 2005 in the Banking & Finance Department and was an associate professor of law at the University of Amsterdam and the Catholic University of Malawi and the University of Malawi between 2004 and 2015.

Lilian is an affiliated lecturer at the department of Private Law of the University of Amsterdam and provides a Master of laws course on Property and Insolvency Law and supervises Master theses on insolvency law topics. She is also an affiliated lecturer at the department of Private International Law of the Leiden University and supervises bachelor and Master theses on private international law topics. She furthermore lectures on issues of private international law in the Grotius specialisation course in securities law. She is an annotator for “Ins Updates Insolventierecht” of Bju.

Martijn Rongen, Senior Legal Counsel, is a member of the Banking & Finance practice group. He specialises in securitisations. He has taught and performed research at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. He has also worked as an adviser at a major Dutch law firm.

Martijn regularly teaches and publishes articles on financing and security rights. He obtained his PhD in 2012 from the Radboud University of Nijmegen with the topic of the assignment of claims in financial transactions. He teaches the Grotius specialist course ‘Financing and Securities’.

Eberhard Hackel is a Senior Director in Fitch Ratings’ European structured finance group and head of the Frankfurt based structured finance team. The team is primarily dealing with European ABS, RMBS and CDO transactions with a regional focus on Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Ireland, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.

Before joining Fitch in 2008, Eberhard worked in the risk controlling department of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba). His responsibilities included measuring the Helaba group’s market risk and working with German regulators supervising Helaba’s internal market risk model.

Eberhard holds a diploma in business administration from the University of Göttingen and has earned the FRM certification of the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

Michael Ecke is an Associate Director in Fitch Ratings’ Frankfurt based structured finance team. Michael is primarily dealing with European ABS and RMBS transactions with a regional focus on German-speaking countries, Poland and the Netherlands.

Before joining Fitch in 2016, Michael worked in the risk management department of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). His responsibilities included auditing of internal market risk models and valuations of derivatives and structured products.

Michael holds a MSc in Financial Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a BSc in Business Engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Michael Wilkins is a Managing Director at S&P Global Ratings based in London where he has global responsibility for the firm’s sustainable finance activities, including environmental and climate risk research and related new products.

Michael experience at S&P Global Ratings includes seven years as Head of Infrastructure Finance Ratings, the analytical group within S&P Global Ratings which covers utilities, project finance, PPPs and transportation in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Michael was also co-head of the Corporate Securitisation group. He joined S&P Global Ratings in London in January 1994 and has also worked in the Melbourne and Hong Kong offices. Michael’s expertise encompasses the European power, water, environmental, transportation and social infrastructure sectors.

Huub Mourits is the Head of Structured Finance & Capital Markets at the Trustmoore Group. He has over 20 years’ experience in the Capital Markets and Structured Finance sectors and was involved in a number of ground-breaking and innovative transactions in the European securitization and structured finance markets. He is a frequent speaker at European and US Structured Finance/Capital Markets events and worked closely with the European and various National Central Bank(s) and other supervisory institutions. Huub holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration and before joining Trustmoore, he was associated with TMF Group as Global Head of Structured Finance Services and NIB Capital Bank (now NIBC N.V.), where he was employed as a Risk Controller.

Barbara is the Co-Team Leader of the RMBS New Ratings Team in EMEA. Before this Barbara held the position of the Team Leader in EMEA RMBS Surveillance. She started in Moody’s in 2002 and has since then covered a large variety of products and markets. Barbara originally comes from the banking industry, where she mainly focused on working with derivative products.

Barbara holds an LLM in Banking and Finance Law from the University of London and a Laurea in International and Diplomatic Sciences from the University of Trieste.

John Koetsier is Executive Director Investment Solutions at CMIS Group. Investment Solutions is responsible for the company’s Investment Platform in Residential Mortgages and Consumer Credit, Lender of Record activities, Business Development and Sales. Prior to joining CMIS Group, John worked at APG, AEGON, Zurich Financial Services, ASR and Amersfoortse in various management positions in sales, business development and project management. John Koetsier holds an Executive MBA from Business School Netherlands.

Alessandro Pighi is a senior director in Fitch Ratings’ Structured Finance group based in London, where he co-heads the EMEA residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) team. Alessandro is responsible for the team’s overall output of ratings and research.

Besides his long tenure at Fitch Ratings, Alessandro has worked in the real estate financing team at Goldman Sachs, in the risk management department of Mediobanca and in the structured finance team at Moody’s.

Alessandro studied Economics at Bocconi University, Milan.