Paul Edwards, Chairman and CEO

Paul is the founding member of SCS. Paul has nearly 20 years of structured finance and commercial experience with particular emphasis on banking and finance, property, power and media industries. Paul has arranged structured finance transactions and been a retained advisor to a substantial range of clients including GM, AIG, Warner Bros, Walt Disney, Nomura, Lloyds Bank, Allied Irish Bank, Clinton Group, SEBC, Bank United, Morgan Stanley, Westfield, Bank of America and ANZ. Paul is also the founder of Global Film Finance (“GFF”), an affiliate of SCS, which has arranged financing for many major motion pictures.

Prior to launching SCS, Paul was Head of Global Corporate Finance, Americas with National Australia Bank with responsibility for establishing the bank’s structured finance and project finance businesses in New York. He was also responsible for the bank’s property finance, corporate lending and syndication groups in New York. Paul was previously Head of Structured Finance at National Australia Bank in Sydney.

Under Paul’s leadership the structured finance group was primarily focused on cross-border transactions including film and intellectual property structures, hybrid equity repo products, foreign tax credit structures as well as various domestic and cross-border leasing products. The business enjoyed substantial success completing significant transactions for major clients.