StormHarbour Announces London Appointments Across CoreBusinesses
London: May 9, 2012 – StormHarbour, a leading independent global markets and financial
advisory firm, announces today it has made 13 senior appointments across the Sales &Trading, Structuring & Advisory and Capital Markets businesses in London, further
strengthening the firm’s specialist regional and global client coverage and expertise.
Per Mario Floden, Darron Weinstein, Andrea Pittaluga and Vincent Pena have joined thefirm to lead and expand StormHarbour’s European Real Estate and Commercial Real Estatebusiness, working across Sales & Trading, Structuring & Advisory and Capital Markets.
Floden and Weinstein have been appointed Co-Heads of StormHarbour’s Real Estate Group.
Rizwan Hussain and Alejandro Gonzalez-Ruiz have joined the firm covering Special
Situations & Alternative Assets, where they will focus on disposals and monetization ofperforming and non-performing loan portfolios and illiquid fixed income assets.
In Sales and Trading, Juliano Mattar has joined covering Emerging Markets (EM) Sales,
responsible for structuring and distribution of EM fixed income products. In addition,Shehreyar Hameed has joined as Managing Director of StormHarbour’s Middle East andNorth Africa business, and Shammi Malik has joined the Sales & Trading team. Hameed will
focus on Middle East origination and fund distribution, and Malik will focus on covered bond,asset-backed securities and commercial mortgage-backed securities trading.
In Capital Markets, Nicholas Fentem has joined to lead the Rates Structuring team, focusing
on the trading and structuring of interest rate derivative products for both asset and liability
side clients. Aishwarya Dahanukar has joined the Financial Institutions Group CapitalMarkets team, focusing on funding and capital management solutions for StormHarbour’sfinancial institution clients.
In addition, Ingrid Weston and Verena Butt have joined the European Infrastructure Financeteam, responsible for financial advisory, structuring, and debt and equity capital raising
services to clients in the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors.
Antonio Cacorino, Co-Founder and Managing Principal in London, commented: “Theappointments further strengthen StormHarbour’s sales and trading, structuring and advisory,and capital markets capabilities in areas where we see significant growth potential for the firm
and its clients globally. Each individual brings extensive sector experience, expertise andsenior level relationships, attributes that we look for and together we believe will deliver greatvalue to the firm and its clients. We welcome them all to StormHarbour’s global team.”

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About StormHarbour
StormHarbour is an independent global markets and financial advisory firm founded in 2009
on the core values of integrity, trust and global expertise.
With over 200 experienced professionals and affiliate offices currently in the major financial
centres of New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and branch in Copenhagen,
StormHarbour prides itself on providing clients with unrivalled markets expertise andcoverage that is truly global in scope.
The firm’s core businesses are sales and trading, structuring and advisory, capital markets
under StormHarbour Securities, and asset management under StormHarbour AlternativeInvestments.
As an independent and relationship-driven partnership, StormHarbour places client value atthe core of its business.

Abridged Biographies of New Appointments (full biographies: www.stormharbour.com)
Per Mario Floden – Per Mario was previously a Managing Partner of Chalkhill Partners,
where he set up the Real Estate team. Prior to that he was a Director of European Structured
Finance at Eurohypo and founding member of ABN Amro’s Structured RE Capital team.
Darron Weinstein – Darron was previously a Managing Partner at Chalkhill Partners. Priorto that he was a Managing Director and Head of Structured Credit Syndicate at Royal Bank of
Scotland, and a Structured Product Manager at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
Andrea Pittaluga – Andrea was most recently a Director in Standard & Poor’s Real Estate(CMBS) team in London. Previously he was a Consultant in the Real Estate Finance team ofErnst & Young.
Vincent Pena – Vincent was most recently a Principal at Chalkhill Partners. Previously heworked at Eurohypo focusing on pan European origination and structuring, he also held
several roles with GE Capital across their Real Estate and Infrastructure businesses.
Rizwan Hussain – Rizwan was most recently a Managing Principal at Navigant Capital
Advisors in Europe. Previously he was the Head of Trading & Portfolio Management, Principal& Distressed Capital at The Royal Bank of Scotland and a member of the Principal Financeteam at WestLB AG.
Alejandro Gonzalez-Ruiz – Alejandro was most recently at Deutsche Bank where he workedfor 10 years focusing on illiquid asset opportunities and originating and structuring
securitization transactions for European financial institutions, corporates and Governments.

Juliano Mattar – Juliano was most recently Head of Emerging Markets Distribution for UBSin London. Previously he was Global Head of Emerging Markets Distribution for BNP Paribasand Head of Southern European Emerging Markets Distribution at Deutsche Bank.
Shehreyar Hameed – Shehreyar was most recently an Executive Director and Head ofMiddle East Fund Distribution in Goldman Sachs’ FICC Division, where he built theinvestment bank’s Alternative Funds distribution platform in the region. He previously workedfor ABN Amro Bank covering Asia Pacific Structured Finance in Singapore and prior to that
Asia Investment Banking & Structured Finance in Karachi, Pakistan.
Shammi Malik – Shammi was most recently a Managing Director and Head of ABS andCovered Bond Trading at Cantor Fitzgerald Europe. Previously he was Head of Corporate &Structured Credit Investments at Natexis Banque, Head of European ABS trading at Société
Générale and an ABS Portfolio Manager with Henderson Global Investors.
Nicolas Fentem – Nicholas was most recently Head of the Derivatives Product Group atConduit Capital Markets. Previously he was Global Head of Rates and Hybrids Structuring atDresdner Kleinwort and a senior member of Citigroup’s interest rate exotics trading andstructuring team.
Aishwarya Dahanukar – Aishwarya was most recently a Senior Associate in Lehman
Brothers’/Nomura’s European FIG DCM Origination team, focusing on cross-currency funding
solutions and capital advisory for German, Austrian and Dutch financial institutions such as
Commerzbank, Rabobank, ABN Amro and Erste Bank, among others.
Ingrid Weston – Ingrid was most recently at SMBC Europe, where she was responsible forstructuring and arranging financing for solar and wind projects in Europe and the Middle East,as well as social infrastructure PPP projects. Previously she worked at CIFG in the European
PPP and Public finance team, and in the Risk Solutions division of Standard & Poor’s.
Verena Butt – Prior to joining StormHarbour, Verena was Head of Investor Relations andMarket Research at Plane Tree Capital, a private equity firm focused on clean energy in Latin
America. Previously she worked as a Sustainability Analyst for the Ethos Foundation, aninvestment firm based in Geneva.