Andrea Trozzi

Director

Andrea joined Talbot Hughes McKillop in February 2009 and has over seven years experience in the credit markets, first as an adviser in debt financings and then as a buy-side credit analyst.

Major Experiences

Andrea began his career at Lehman Brothers in the Debt Capital Markets division covering investment grade Italian and Spanish corporates. Andrea worked on European / cross Atlantic financings for major corporates such as Telecom Italia and Autostrade and rating advisory mandates.

Following two years at Lehman Brothers Andrea pursued an MBA at the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business, which he completed with a specialisation in Financial Instruments and Markets / Quantitative Finance.

After the MBA Andrea joined Goldman Sachs as an Associate in the European Special Situations Group, Goldman Sachs’ proprietary investment team in the Fixed Income division. Andrea was responsible for analysing and executing investments in assets across the capital structure ranging from direct private equity investments to corporate credit, including senior bank debt, mezzanine loans and high yield bonds.

Andrea is a CFA charterholder.

Major Recent Projects

  • Adviser to Straumur, an Icelandic Investment Bank with international operations in the UK and Denmark, on the restructuring of the group’s €1.8 billion debt.
  • Adviser to a UK and European hotels and conference and training venues group on the restructuring of the group’s £400 million debt.
  • Adviser to the private equity sponsor in the restructuring of Samsonite, the global luggage business.