Barclays appoints Na Wei as Global Head of Leveraged Finance
February 06 2024 - 10:40AM
Business Wire
With close to 20 years of experience in the
Leveraged Finance market, Ms. Wei has extensive industry and
product expertise, as well as proven leadership skills and a
relentless focus on client coverage
Barclays today announces the appointment of Na Wei as Global
Head of Leveraged Finance, reporting to Travis Barnes and Tom
Johnson, Global Co-Heads of Capital Markets at Barclays.
Under Ms. Wei’s leadership of Barclays’ Leveraged Finance
business in EMEA the firm achieved a top three ranking in 2023
according to Dealogic data, up from number seven in 2022. Ms. Wei
has also been instrumental in materially increasing Barclays’
market share with the firm’s top twenty Financial Sponsors
clients.
Commenting on Ms. Wei’s expanded role, Travis Barnes said, “As
the financing market continues to evolve and become more complex,
we are confident that under Na’s leadership we will be best
positioned for future success. Na has a proven track record of
growing business and market share, and of standout service for our
clients.”
Tom Johnson added, “Through her leadership of the EMEA
franchise, Na installed a disciplined focus on delivering strategic
capital to our most important clients. We firmly believe that she
can replicate this mindset across our global business, putting us
in the strongest possible position to further increase our market
share in the US and globally.”
Leveraged Finance is an integral part of Barclays’ investment
banking business, providing a key strategic touch point with our
clients across multiple investment banking products. Barclays has a
strong Leveraged Finance franchise, with a year to date global
ranking of number three according to Dealogic data. Barclays has
been involved in four of the top five high yield bond deals in
2024, leading NGL Energy Partner’s dual-tranche $2.2bn deal and
serving as joint bookrunner on two others (HUB International’s $3bn
deal and CSC (Altice USA)’s $2.1bn deal). In addition, Barclays was
joint-books on two of the top five leveraged loans deals (Inspire
Brands $4.3bn-sole books and SBA Communications $4.1bn). Barclays
was sole physical bookrunner on five leveraged loan transactions of
over $1bn in value in January (Inspire Brands $4.3bn, Jane Street
$3.0bn, Oryx Midstream $1.8bn, WestJet $1.5bn and Primary Products
$1.0bn).
About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by
business, by different types of customer and client, and geography.
Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations
around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global
corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our
service company which provides technology, operations and
functional services across the Group. For further information about
Barclays, please visit our website home.barclays.
About Barclays Corporate and Investment Bank
Barclays Corporate and Investment Bank is comprised of the
Investment Banking, International Corporate Banking, Global Markets
and Research businesses. It provides money managers, financial
institutions, governments, supranational organisations and
corporate clients with services and advice for their funding,
financing, strategic and risk management needs. For further
information about Barclays Corporate and Investment Bank, please
visit our website www.cib.barclays.
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