Deep experience.
Personal commitment.

Neil has completed numerous senior-level appointments for a broad range of financial services clients in London and other major financial centres.

He has particular expertise in corporate and investment banking in areas such as coverage — both industry and geographic — M&A, DCM, ECM, corporate broking and restructuring, but has also worked on a diverse range of roles across financial services.

Prior to his current role, Neil was a Senior Client Partner in London with Korn/Ferry International and established investment banking search practices at two well-known global boutiques.

His early career was as an officer in the British Army, serving in Germany, the UK and Northern Ireland. He was Mentioned in Dispatches for Gallantry.

Mark specialises in conducting senior-level, buy-side retained searches for asset managers, hedge funds and private equity houses in EMEA, Asia Pacific and North America. Through his extensive geographic connections, he has particular experience advising clients considering entry into new strategic markets.

Functionally, Mark focuses on front-office positions in client-facing roles including sales, business development and investor relations, as well as portfolio management and analyst roles across asset classes.

Mark has over 20 years’ experience in financial services, initially in fixed income sales with HSBC and Nomura before joining global executive search firm Sheffield Haworth in Hong Kong in 2005. He led its Asia Pacific business from 2007 to 2009, then returned to London to establish and lead the firm’s Global Hedge Fund Practice before joining Portman Square Partners in 2014.

He has been a regular speaker at Institutional Investor conferences and a regular panellist at CAIA events in London. Before financial services, Mark served in the British Army, including an operational tour of Northern Ireland. He is a graduate of the University of Reading with a BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations.

Andrew has over twenty years’ experience as an investment banker, with broad geographic experience in both emerging and developed markets. His early years were spent in Latin America, where he completed his school education in Chile and the Dominican Republic before graduating from school and college in the USA.

His investment banking career commenced with Merrill Lynch in New York in 1989 as a member of the FIG M&A team, working on transactions in the US, Latin America and Europe.

Relocating full-time to Europe in 1992, he became responsible for marketing and executing FIG advisory mandates in Europe, as well as equity and advisory mandates in emerging markets. He spent time with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Credit Suisse and Putnam Lovell before rejoining Merrill Lynch.

As COO of Global Origination, his role included oversight of all senior investment banking hires. Following the integration with Bank of America, he co-led corporate and investment banking across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Richard is a Senior Advisor to Portman Square Partners. He works with clients across emerging markets, almost exclusively in Africa and, to a lesser extent, across the Middle East.

He concentrates on the full gamut of private equity and private credit — including direct investments, advisory groups, funds of funds, secondaries and placement agents. Richard also works with infrastructure and real estate funds, family offices, global impact funds and microfinance banks in Europe and developing nations.

Richard has over twenty years’ search experience, initially covering the European private equity, mezzanine and infrastructure markets, beginning with Sheffield Haworth in London in 1998.

Before executive search, he worked for a UK corporate finance boutique introducing transactions to UK venture capitalists and private equity groups. Previously, Richard led a management team in the buyout of a Parisian luxury delicatessen business from Guinness plc. His early career was in winemaking in Portugal, and he still speaks Portuguese and French.