Adrian is a chartered accountant with over 25 years of experience working in Cape Town, London, Hong Kong and Sydney for global multinationals, including Arthur Andersen, BNP Paribas and Macquarie Bank.
Adrian’s 19 years at Macquarie provided a technical training ground in cross-border structured finance transactions, including exposure to taxation law, accounting standards and the regulatory treatment of complex financial instruments.
This work necessitated a mindset of constantly reimagining and reinventing transactions and structures in order to keep the business relevant. Working across geographic territories gave Adrian a tremendous appreciation and understanding of diversity in culture, needs and attitudes across individuals, teams and businesses.
This curiosity, creativity and innovation – knowing that nothing ever stays the same, particularly in financial markets – manifests in a can-do attitude when it comes to problem solving for clients.
This spirt of resilience, combined with financial innovation and thinking out the box, sets the tone for Reefine Capital’s approach in working collaboratively with clients and bringing them forward-thinking solutions to support their businesses.
Paul is a lawyer and chartered accountant with more than 20 years’ experience in professional and financial services, spanning continents and cultures.
Paul’s career began at Deloitte where he progressed to tax partner in the South African firm with a specialised focus in financial services, notably in structured finance and securitisation, derivative financial instruments, fixed income products, securities lending arrangements and tax accounting. Paul relocated to Deloitte’s Sydney office in 2009 where he continued to service clients in the non- bank sector with particular focus on the taxation aspects of securitisation and warehouse funding arrangements.
Subsequently, with a love for the law, Paul practiced corporate law at Sainty Law, a boutique firm in Sydney.
He then returned to finance joining Monash Private Capital and its non-bank lending arm, Maia Financial – now owned by KKR and HPS Partners. In addition to deal origination, Paul’s role at Maia Financial included developing and implementing its first private debt fund, the development of a $100m managed services program in waste management technology, and the redesign of the credit process flow.
With a depth and breadth of commercial and technical experience, and knowledge across law and finance, together with an MA in Philosophical Ethics, Paul brings a broad and multi-tiered approach in deal origination and structuring, building collaborative working relationships with clients and investors.