About Us

SERPENT is an independent, private strategic, transactional and financing advisory vehicle dedicated to likeminded sophisticated private and institutional investors. It serves as a unique boutique advisory and knowledge exchange platform providing intermediation between problems and providers of solutions.

SERPENT leverages decades of transactional experience from Debt Capital Markets, Investment Banking and Corporate Finance gained by its professionals at bulge-bracket investment banks in the City of London.

With approximately 1,000 deals, structures and investment opportunities reviewed over the last 33 years and over 300 originated and successfully executed transactions across the full spectrum of investment banking products and services, including debt issuance, financing advisory, IPOs, secondary equity issuance, M&A, derivatives, off-balance sheet financing, hedging, structured finance and joint-ventures,  SERPENT professionals have the depth and breadth of knowledge, expertise, and experience to draw on in providing customized advisory services.

SERPENT professionals have a number of firsts in multiple European jurisdictions, including first syndicated loans, first convertible bonds, first local currency bonds, first commodity linked structures, first equity swaps, first securitisations, first cross-currency swaps, first structured derivatives, first internationally placed and documented IPO, first EMTN programmes, first sovereign ratings, first subordinated loans.

The modus operandi of SERPENT is based on best in class, sophisticated “Su Misura” transactional intermediation for strategic, financial, and private investors coupled with unobstructed vision, out-of-the-box thinking and a win-win approach. Honesty, transparency, and diligence are a top prerogative in all our actions.

Our efforts are aimed at sourcing, inception, modification, development, extraction, monetization and execution of creative ideas and concepts. SERPENT’s objective is to provide qualified investors, sponsors, partners, management teams with access to tailor-made advisory services including strategic and transactional structuring, negotiating and vetting comprehensive financial packages with providers of debt and equity. Be it acquisition finance, corporate debt, LBO/MBO, recaps or refinancing – SERPENT’s clients have access to the full toolset. 

Where businesses hit stormy waters, SERPENT will help you develop a viable turnaround strategy and will support you in your restructuring efforts.