Speakers

Paul Atefi (London) joined KKR in 2017 and is Head of Origination for Credit & Markets in Europe, responsible for principal investments and capital markets solutions across the capital structure. He is a member of the Private Credit Investment Committee. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Atefi was on the acquisition and leveraged finance team at J.P. Morgan, focusing on financial sponsor clients with additional responsibility for financial institutional group corporate clients, having developed that leveraged lending vertical. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Mr. Atefi was at RBS, initially on the leveraged finance team and latterly in the global restructuring group. Mr. Atefi is a qualified chartered accountant, having qualified with PwC on their transaction services team. He graduated with first class honours from the University of Leeds.