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Welcome To Waterman Stern

RECRUITMENT FOR THE ASSET MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY

What we do best at Waterman Stern

Our experienced team of consultants assist clients on front office investment hires and Investor Relations hires. We have structured our business so that our most experienced consultants run senior hires and our specialised team of headhunters run all mid to junior level mandates. We assist Private Equity funds, Hedge Funds, Alternative Asset Managers, SWFs and Merchant Banks to hire the very best investment, investor relations and business development professionals in the market

Principal Markets

Direct Lending & Capital Solutions

Distressed Debt & Special Situations

Distressed Debt & Special Situations

Our team has consulted on large ticket mezzanine and mid-market direct lending hires for leading private debt firms. We have experience placing heads of private debt, heads of origination covering UK, France, Germany, Southern Europe and the Middle East. Alongside Origination hires we have placed many structurers and investment analysts focused on execution

Distressed Debt & Special Situations

Distressed Debt & Special Situations

Distressed Debt & Special Situations

We have executed on senior and mid-level distressed & special situations hires into illiquid & liquid platform's for closed ended and hedge fund clients. Our experience spans single name corporate distressed, asset backed distressed and distressed structured finance markets. Our team has executed on partner level hires, as well as investment analyst hires 

Real Estate Debt & NPL's

Distressed Debt & Special Situations

CLO Management & Investment

The consultants working at Waterman Stern have recruited for many of the leading commercial real estate debt funds. This includes recruiting for heads of commercial real estate, heads of fund management, senior originators, structurers, portfolio managers, chief risk officers, asset managers, CMBS portfolio managers and Non-performing loan investment analysts

CLO Management & Investment

Hybrid Solutions & Private Equity

CLO Management & Investment

Our team have advised and successfully recruited on many significant CLO 2.0 hires over recent years. Our experience spans placing senior portfolio managers into both existing and first time CLO fund managers, placing leveraged finance credit analysts, structured credit traders and CLO investment analysts, alongside placing investment banking origination and structuring professionals 

Structured Credit & ABS

Hybrid Solutions & Private Equity

Hybrid Solutions & Private Equity

Structured finance / products investment has been a core focus for our team over the past 7 years including trading, structuring and analyst hires for hedge funds, institutional asset managers and investment banks. We have a track-record across public and private ABS markets, non-performing loan investment, RMBS, CMBS, consumer ABS, regulatory capital trades and CLO investment

Hybrid Solutions & Private Equity

Hybrid Solutions & Private Equity

Hybrid Solutions & Private Equity

Our consultants covering traditional private equity focus on delivering the very best talent from mergers and acquisitions teams as well as leading restructuring teams in a streamlined and effective manner. The added value in this sector is candidate selection. Waterman Stern utilize a search methodology in mapping talent and use multiply points of referencing to represent the very strongest junior talent available 

EXAMPLE OF SENIOR PLACEMENTS

CLO PORTFOLIO MANAGER

EUROPEAN HEAD OF DIRECT LENDING

EUROPEAN HEAD OF DIRECT LENDING

$9bn AUM Private Equity Firm

EUROPEAN HEAD OF DIRECT LENDING

EUROPEAN HEAD OF DIRECT LENDING

EUROPEAN HEAD OF DIRECT LENDING

€30bn AUM Private Equity Firm

UK DL ORIGINATION MD

EUROPEAN HEAD OF DIRECT LENDING

UK DL ORIGINATION MD

$250bn AUM Private Equity Firm

HEAD OF GERMANY SPECIAL SITS

EUROPEAN HEAD OF CAPITAL MARKETS

HEAD OF US BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

US BANK SPECIAL SITUATIONS 

HEAD OF US BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

EUROPEAN HEAD OF CAPITAL MARKETS

HEAD OF US BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

$8bn AUM US Hedge Fund

EUROPEAN HEAD OF CAPITAL MARKETS

EUROPEAN HEAD OF CAPITAL MARKETS

EUROPEAN HEAD OF CAPITAL MARKETS

$60BN PRIVATE EQUITY 

HEAD OF REAL ESTATE DEBT ORIGINATION

HEAD OF REAL ESTATE DEBT ORIGINATION

HEAD OF REAL ESTATE DEBT ORIGINATION

€32bn AUM Credit Manager

STRUCTURED CREDIT PORTFOLIO MANAGER

HEAD OF REAL ESTATE DEBT ORIGINATION

HEAD OF REAL ESTATE DEBT ORIGINATION

$5bn AUM Hedge Fund

HEAD OF BENELUX DL ORIGINATION

HEAD OF REAL ESTATE DEBT ORIGINATION

HEAD OF BENELUX DL ORIGINATION

$27bn AUM Private Equity Firm

HEAD OF DISTRESSED ASSET INVESTMENT

HEAD OF DISTRESSED ASSET INVESTMENT

HEAD OF DISTRESSED ASSET INVESTMENT

$12bn AUM Alternative Asset Manager

HEAD OF CREDIT INVESTOR RELATIONS

HEAD OF DISTRESSED ASSET INVESTMENT

HEAD OF DISTRESSED ASSET INVESTMENT

$10bn Alternative Asset Manager

LIQUID CREDIT PORTFOLIO MANAGER

HEAD OF DISTRESSED ASSET INVESTMENT

LIQUID CREDIT PORTFOLIO MANAGER

$78bn AUM Private Equity Firm

HEAD OF REAL ESTATE DEBT ORIGINATION

HEAD OF EUROPEAN ABS TRADING & INVESTMENT

HEAD OF REAL ESTATE DEBT ORIGINATION

$200bn AUM Asset Manager

HEAD OF DACH & BENELUX ORIGINATION

HEAD OF EUROPEAN ABS TRADING & INVESTMENT

HEAD OF REAL ESTATE DEBT ORIGINATION

 $9bn AUM Private Equity Firm 

HEAD OF EUROPEAN ABS TRADING & INVESTMENT

HEAD OF EUROPEAN ABS TRADING & INVESTMENT

HEAD OF EUROPEAN ABS TRADING & INVESTMENT

$3.5bn AUM Hedge Fund

DIRECT LENDING DACH ORIGINATION MD

ACQUISITION FINANCE PORTFOLIO MANAGER

DIRECT LENDING DACH ORIGINATION MD

 $78bn AUM Private Equity Firm 

FRENCH ORIGINATION DIRECTOR

ACQUISITION FINANCE PORTFOLIO MANAGER

DIRECT LENDING DACH ORIGINATION MD

 €30bn AUM Private Equity Firm 

ACQUISITION FINANCE PORTFOLIO MANAGER

ACQUISITION FINANCE PORTFOLIO MANAGER

ACQUISITION FINANCE PORTFOLIO MANAGER

Investment Bank

EXAMPLE OF MID-LEVEL PLACEMENTS

VICE PRESIDENT PRIVATE CREDIT

VICE PRESIDENT LEVERAGED FINANCE

VICE PRESIDENT PRIVATE CREDIT

  $9bn AUM Private Equity Firm  

AD DIRECT LENDING MIDDLE EAST

VICE PRESIDENT LEVERAGED FINANCE

VICE PRESIDENT PRIVATE CREDIT

£500m AUM Credit Manager

VICE PRESIDENT LEVERAGED FINANCE

VICE PRESIDENT LEVERAGED FINANCE

VICE PRESIDENT LEVERAGED FINANCE

Investment Bank

VICE PRESIDENT CLO ANALYST

VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE FINANCE

VICE PRESIDENT CLO ANALYST

$12 bn Alternative Asset Manager

MULTI STRAT FINANCIALS VP

VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE FINANCE

VICE PRESIDENT CLO ANALYST

$43bn Private Equity Firm

VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE FINANCE

VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE FINANCE

VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE FINANCE

$20bn Alternative Asset Manager

VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE DEBT

ABS/ RMBS QUANT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE DEBT

£8bn AUM Hedge Fund

VP CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES

ABS/ RMBS QUANT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE DEBT

 $12bn AUM Alternative Asset Manager 

ABS/ RMBS QUANT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

ABS/ RMBS QUANT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

ABS/ RMBS QUANT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

 $200bn AUM Asset Manager 

VP CLO CREDIT ANALYST

VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE SPECIAL SIT'S

DISTRESSED ASSET MANAGER

€14bn AUM Credit Manager

DISTRESSED ASSET MANAGER

VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE SPECIAL SIT'S

DISTRESSED ASSET MANAGER

€1bn AUM Hedge Fund

VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE SPECIAL SIT'S

VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE SPECIAL SIT'S

VICE PRESIDENT REAL ESTATE SPECIAL SIT'S

Investment Bank

EXAMPLE OF JUNIOR PLACEMENTS

ASSOCIATE DIRECT LENDING

ASSOCIATE CAPITAL SOLUTIONS

ASSOCIATE CAPITAL SOLUTIONS

$300bn Asset Manager

ASSOCIATE CAPITAL SOLUTIONS

ASSOCIATE CAPITAL SOLUTIONS

ASSOCIATE CAPITAL SOLUTIONS

$100bn Private Equity

ANALYST PRIVATE CREDIT

ASSOCIATE CAPITAL SOLUTIONS

ANALYST PRIVATE CREDIT

Merchant Bank

ASSOCIATE CLO INVESTMENT ANALYST

ASSOCIATE CLO INVESTMENT ANALYST

ASSOCIATE CLO INVESTMENT ANALYST

$60bn Private Equity

Sn ASSOCIATE CLO MANAGER

ASSOCIATE CLO INVESTMENT ANALYST

ASSOCIATE CLO INVESTMENT ANALYST

$50bn Hedge Fund

ASSOCIATE SPECIAL SITUATIONS

ASSOCIATE CLO INVESTMENT ANALYST

ASSOCIATE SPECIAL SITUATIONS

$70bn Hedge Fund

ANALYST DISTRESSED HYBRID VALUE

ANALYST DISTRESSED HYBRID VALUE

ANALYST DISTRESSED HYBRID VALUE

$400bn Private Equity

Sn ASSOCIATE CAPITAL MARKETS

ANALYST DISTRESSED HYBRID VALUE

ANALYST DISTRESSED HYBRID VALUE

$30bn Private Equity

ASSOCIATE ASSET BACKED CREDIT

ANALYST DISTRESSED HYBRID VALUE

ASSOCIATE ASSET BACKED CREDIT

$40bn Hedge Fund

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