Stuart has nearly 30 years’ experience as a capital markets professional and consultant. Seasoned investment banker with tenures at Daiwa, WestLB, Wachovia and Wells Fargo, and residences in Asia, Europe and the US, Stuart brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise gleaned from the global banking and corporate sectors
Prior to setting up 4M&R Consulting, in 2014 Stuart co-founded the Structured Finance division of Met Zurich LLP working with non-traditional UK real estate lenders and borrowers, facilitating lending activity and the provision of liquidity.
Prior to joining Met Zurich LLP Stuart was a Director at Wells Fargo Securities and was deputy head of the European Debt Capital Markets and Syndicate team in London. Stuart has experience in raising public and private capital for Banks, NBFI’s, Corporates, Sovereigns, Agencies and Supranationals. Distribution experience covered both institutional and retail investors in the US, Europe and Asia. Product knowledge is diverse and spans the capital stack from senior plain vanilla public offerings to heavily structured and subordinated transactions, corporate loans to High Yield, ABS and Venture Capital. Issuer experience has ranged from AAA to single B (& unrated), multinational public companies to privately owned firms, HNW’s and entrepreneurs. Stuart also worked at WestLB as an Executive Director in London for 8 years, with a 3 year spell in New York as a founding member of the US Private Placement team with non-US issuers raising capital in the US. Prior to that Stuart spent 3 years working for Daiwa Capital Markets Europe. His career began trading currencies in Hong Kong with a period in private client stock broking in Scotland. He received a B.A. Honours degree from Napier University in Edinburgh (Scotland).
When Met Zurich was sold in 2018 Stuart worked as a Managing Director for Whitehall & Capital LLC, a boutique investment bank based in New York.
Since 2022 Stuart has acted as an independent specialist liquidity and capital markets consultant to a broad range of clients across the UK and Europe.