Fil is a market leading lender-side leveraged finance partner. He joined A&O Shearman in 2024 from Barclays Investment Bank, where he was a Managing Director in the front office Leveraged Finance execution team, overseeing the origination, structuring and execution of leveraged finance transactions for financial sponsors across EMEA and the US.

Prior to joining Barclays, he spent 10 years working at Clifford Chance, both in their London and Milan office.

Fil combines a very robust magic circle background with the commercial acumen, industry awareness, deep market knowledge as well as a proactive and solution-driven attitude developed in the context of a top 3 EMEA Leveraged Finance franchise.

Such a holistic skillset, coupled with a credible, mature and calm demeanour, ideally position Fil to be the partner of choice, trusted adviser and solution provider for large and highly complex leveraged, acquisition and corporate finance transactions.