Sector developments and company hires

Aviation finance practice inaugurated
Global aviation services provider ACC Aviation has added an in-house aviation finance specialist. Viktor Berta joins the group as vp of its newly created aviation finance practice. The appointment broadens the scope of ACC Aviation’s suite of consultancy services, led by Rob Watts, who also takes on an enhanced role as director of aviation services.

Berta - who will work between the UK and Dubai offices - previously spent eight years in aviation finance and investment management at DVB Bank and Erste Bank, working from their Amsterdam and London offices. He has structured and restructured a variety of aircraft deals, including ABS.

EMEA
Scott Spurling has joined BlueBay Asset Management’s structured credit and CLO management team as an analyst. Based in London, he will report to Sid Chhabra, head of structured credit and CLO management.

Before joining BlueBay, Spurling was most recently an analyst at CIP Asset Management, where he was responsible for the due diligence across global ABS and RMBS bonds. Prior to this, he worked as an ABS and mortgage analyst for WyeTree Asset Management.

Giovanni Inglisa has joined the EIB as loan officer - banks and structured finance. He was previously structured finance manager at the EIF, which he joined in 2014. Before that, Inglisa worked at S&P as an associate in the Milan-based securitisation ratings team, as well as undertaking consultancy work at EY and Protiviti.

Salah Maklada has joined STS Verification International as associate director, bringing 10 years of securitisation experience gained through his work as a senior manager in the credit and securitisation team of Deloitte. His responsibilities at Deloitte covered trustee and verification services for a wide range of clients in Germany across various synthetic and true sale transactions.

North America
Antares Capital has recruited Jeffrey Stammen as md, head of investor coverage in asset management. He will report to Vivek Mathew, head of asset management and funding, and lead the company’s efforts in developing new relationships and raising capital from institutional investors. Stammen brings nearly three decades of experience in private credit and most recently served as md and regional sales head of North American institutional distribution at Barings. He previously led a sales team responsible for structured credit product distribution at Wachovia and began his career leading the credit derivative and structured credit products businesses for Citi Private Bank.

Ashurst has appointed Julia Lu as partner in its global markets practice, based in New York. She joins from Crowell & Moring, where she was a partner focusing on derivatives, distressed debt and structured credit markets. Lu previously worked at Sullivan & Cromwell and also undertook a secondment as the coo of the bank loan syndication and trading desk at Goldman Sachs.