Syndicated Lending

Mark Campbell is Special Counsel at international law firm Clifford Chance. He joined Clifford Chance in 1982 and has specialised in international and domestic banking and financial work. He has acted for a wide variety of arrangers of syndicated financing transactions of all types and has advised the Loan Market Association on its standard documentation since its inception. In recent years much of his work has centred around the acquisition finance, leveraged buy-out and restructuring markets. He has contributed to periodicals on financial law and is a regular speaker at conferences on syndicated lending and secondary market issues. Mark took his Law degree at Oriel College, Oxford and is the Chair of Governors for Shapla School, Tower Hamlets and Chair of Trustees at Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership.Christoph Weaver is General Manager of BayernLB, London Branch. Previously, he was Deputy Head of Loan Capital Markets and Head of Transaction Management at Royal Bank of Scotland. During his time at RBS, Christoph had geographic responsibilities for Germany, Austria & Switzerland, Nordics, France and Southern Europe. He joined RBS in 2004, before which he worked for HVB (now Unicredit) to establish and spear-head their Corporate Syndications Team with additional responsibilities for the financial institutions team and a major focus on European Borrowers. In 1997, Christoph moved to the Debt finance Division of Bankgesellschaft Berlin where he became Head of Syndications, leading a cross border team with a particular focus on borrowers in Eastern Europe, the Nordics and the Near Middle East. Christoph started his career at WestLB in credit before moving on to Syndications where he focused largely on UK corporates and FIs.