Axel Rink

Senior Director
20 years of experience of working in debt advisory, financial restructuring and M&A
Specialises in positive financing mandates, and stressed and distressed situations
Knowledge of investment grade, leveraged and structured finance debt products and asset-based finance
Frankfurt
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Axel Rink is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Debt Advisory in Frankfurt. He brings 20 years of experience of working with clients on debt advisory, financial restructuring and M&A.

Mr. Rink has worked with both listed and private clients and with a range of debt products including investment grade, leveraged and structured finance and asset-based finance. Along with experience in positive financing mandates, he has significant experience advising in stressed and distressed situations on refinancing, covenant amendments/waivers, broader stakeholder management and non-performing loan portfolios.

Prior to joining to A&M, Mr. Rink spent 10 years with Deloitte's Financial Advisory practice, co-heading their German Debt & Capital Advisory team. He advised corporate and private equity clients on debt financings and helped build a leading cross-border advisory practice that worked on some of the highest-profile German restructurings of recent years, including the restructuring of Galapagos and the Bartec recapitalisation and its subsequent restructuring and debt-equity swap.

Prior to that, Mr. Rink worked for international financial sponsors in their corporate investment teams overseeing debt and equity investments, primarily in stressed or distressed situations. Mr. Rink started his career in investment banking at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.

Mr. Rink earned a Diplomkaufmann (equivalent to an MBA) (international accounting, banking, and financial engineering and derivates concentration) from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He is a member of the TMA Turnaround Management Association (Gesellschaft fuer Restrukturierung – TMA Deutschland e.V.) and the Anglo-German Club e.V. Mr. Rink is fluent in German and English.

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Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) today announces that it has expanded its Debt Advisory team in Europe with the appointment of Floris Hovingh as a Managing Director in London, Axel Rink as a Senior Director in Frankfurt and Atif Malik as a Director in London. All three bring over 20 years+ each of debt advisory and banking experience to the growing A&M debt advisory practice.
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A survey by Alvarez & Marsal’s Debt Advisory group with approximately 100 private debt funds across the U.K., Europe and the U.S. shows investors are expecting increased dealmaking and fundraising activity in 2024. Responses also suggest that liquidity in the market will improve, but it will not result in lower pricing or higher leverage levels this year.
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