Richard has over 25 years’ experience in a mix of investment banking and in-house senior management and corporate finance roles. He started working with OGG in 2018, having previously worked with Oli Greaves on a number of opportunities over the prior five years. His experience of leading transactions across a wide range of financing instruments and at different stages of a company’s development, including as a principal, is highly complementary. This spans growth capital from seed equity to IPO, structured debt financings to public debt. He is also a principal investor in financial services, real estate and early stage businesses in other sectors.
His in-house experience includes working with Telenet over a number of years to deliver their IPO, first as a shareholder and subsequently moving in-house, where he co-led the internal team that launched this high growth telecoms and media company’s EUR 1 billion IPO on Euronext in 2005. This involved instrumental roles across the transaction, spanning initial pre-IPO preparation, financials, advisor selection, offering documentation, marketing and closing. Following its successful IPO, he provided ongoing support with investor relations activities as Telenet transitioned to operating as a listed company and then with a further bond issue in 2008. Ahead of the IPO he had worked closely with Telenet to launch a high yield bond, which was viewed as reopening the European high yield market for telecoms in 2003.
He has been involved in developing a number of innovative financing structures for companies. An example being a combined Eur130m equity and warehouse debt financing for Credoma, a pioneering non-conforming residential mortgage lender in the Czech Republic, which enabled them to achieve their next stage of rapid growth when conventional financing was unavailable to them.
He was formerly Chief Operating Officer of Nava Finance (a challenger UK regulated financial services business) from 2015, at New Amsterdam Capital from 2005 to 2015 where he was Head of Corporate Finance, and prior to that Vice President at Cable Partners Europe and Vice President at Bankers Trust in Corporate Finance. Richard has worked on over 50 transactions as both adviser and principal.