Guy Blench is a Partner at The Omerta Group, spanning the firm’s Global Markets, Investment Banking and Private Markets practices. He specialises in executive search across Debt Capital Markets and Financing Solutions, structured finance, insurance investing, asset and liability management, and private capital, advising financial institutions, investors and alternative asset managers across Europe and the Middle East.
Guy advises leading investment banks, insurers, private capital firms and alternative asset managers. His expertise covers debt origination, securitisation, structured credit, collateralised loan obligations (CLOs), significant risk transfer (SRT), insurance asset management and private market investment strategies, with a particular focus on the convergence of insurance balance sheets, structured assets and alternative credit.
He also supports clients across financing and origination platforms, including asset-backed lending, fund finance, structured lending, hedging, structuring and risk transfer. Guy has successfully delivered both leadership and mid-level appointments, from Vice President and Director through to Managing Director, across investing, origination, structuring, syndicate and executive leadership functions.
Guy joined Omerta in 2009. Guy latterly co-ran Fixed Income at Elliott Ross Associates, where he set up the Fixed Income Sales practice. He began his career at a search boutique, ECI International in 1998 where he specialised in Fixed Income Derivatives Marketing.
He graduated with a BSc in Politics and Philosophy from Birmingham University
