Speakers

Mehdi has been at L&G for over 10 years with experience working in UK, European and North America regions. Over the past few years he has led several new asset initiatives for the UK and US balance sheet leading to the creation of innovative funding solutions and structuring of assets into debt and equity (with a focus in real estate, digital infrastructure and clean energy), examples include long lease commercial properties, residential real estate , Energy Infrastructure assets and Esoteric ABS assets. The solutions have helped increase profitability and boosted L&G's competitive advantage winning over $5 billion new business. Over the past few months, he has led efforts to increasing the investment universe of securitized credit such as data centers, fiber, rail car and container ABS closing over $100m of transactions for the US balance sheet.

He is a qualified Investment & Finance Actuary, Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary and member of the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investments. Mehdi also Chairs the Infrastructure task form part of the Fixed Income Investors Network (FIIN).

Prior to L&G, he worked at BP in the Credit and Market risk teams and has experience trading financial products such as FX, Index and Fixed Income futures.