Shaun O’Callaghan

I have more than 30 years' experience as an adviser, executive and board director. I work with owners and management teams to define their strategy and financial plans, and then guide them through a fund raising or restructuring process.

My experience covers resolving difficult lending situations and delivering complex, cross-border restructuring assignments, as well as providing syndicated debt and refinancing advice to companies across Europe. In debt advisory, I focus on high-growth companies and the larger mid-market, with debt typically in the region of £30 million to £250 million.

I design and deliver senior executive development and change programmes for leading global companies including Vodafone, Coloplast and Carlsberg and have worked with many others to focus on their key strategic, financial and leadership issues. 

I am also the programme director for the Institute for Turnaround's development academy and the published author of 'Turnaround Leadership: Making Decisions, Rebuilding Trust and Delivering Results after a Crisis', Kogan Page, 2010.

In the mid-market for debt, we lead in bringing together companies and financiers - ABLs, banks and direct lending funds. Recent debt raising and restructuring advisory projects include:

• £97 million of new money facilities for a global construction company
• €320 million bridge to bond bank facility for an international leisure business
• £70 million new money facility for a high street retailer
• €50 million new facilities for a listed global pharma group
• £30 million of development funding for a private education institution
• $100 million accordion facility for the buy-out of a technology company operating in over 50 countries worldwide
• £650 million debt facilities review and strategy for a FTSE150 property services business
• £20 million of buy out debt facilities for a private recruitment business