Next month, Financial News will unveil the inaugural Most Influential in European Finance.
The list is our pick of executives working in investment banking, fund management, law, hedge funds, crypto, professional services, sustainable finance, trading and market infrastructure, and financial regulation.
Ahead of the list, meet three of the stars that will be featured.
Look out for the full selection on 16 September here, and sign up to our lists and awards newsletter to be first to find out who all the winners are.
Korey Fevzi
Head of banking and credit, Emea
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Since joining Cravath Swaine & Moore in London in 2023, Korey Fevzi has led a major build-out of its English law offering. When he joined, he was the first English-qualified partner in Cravath’s 200-year history. Now he leads an 11-strong banking team in London.
He advises investment banks, private credit funds and on leveraged finance acquisitions. Core clients include Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Bridgepoint, Hayfin and CVC Credit.
Fevzi recently advised the lead arrangers in connection with the senior financing package for the €1.1bn acquisition of Forno d’Asolo by Sammontana and Investindustrial. Earlier this year, he advised the banks working with TDR Capital and I Squared Capital on an offer for Spanish certification company Applus+.
In November, Fevzi led Cravath as the sole arranger and bookrunner on a £375m term loan made available to Mars for its acquisition of Hotel Chocolat Group.
He trained at Harbottle & Lewis then worked at Fried Frank for three years before spending more than a decade at Shearman & Sterling.
Catherine Howarth
CEO
ShareAction
Catherine Howarth did not expect to love working in finance when she was appointed ShareAction’s chief executive in 2008. But, 16 years later, she couldn’t imagine doing anything else.
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Howarth said she enjoys the people who work in the sector, even though her job frequently involves taking them to task. Responsible investing charity ShareAction coordinates engagement efforts with major investors to tackle environmental, social and governance issues at some of the biggest companies globally.
Its representatives have attended 64 annual general meetings in 2024, including 32 outside the UK. It called on Barclays to stop bankrolling fracking projects and at Deliveroo’s AGM it teamed up with the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain to campaign for safer working conditions and higher pay for riders at the fast-food app.
“Money makes the world go round. If you’re interested in whether the world is in good shape, you have to be interested in finance,” Howarth told Financial News.
Prior to becoming ShareAction’s chief executive, Howarth worked for London Citizens, which engages in grassroots community activism.
ShareAction does not take money from the finance industry, relying instead on contributions from foundations and individual donors. “I think it does serve the public interest to keep an eye on finance. But keeping donors interested in that is an ever-present challenge,” Howarth said.
One of ShareAction’s accomplishments that Howarth is most proud of is its ‘Voting Matters’ annual report, which names and shames asset managers for failing to use their proxy votes to pressure investee companies.
“I was talking to someone from one of the really big US managers who said, ‘You have no idea how many clients are bothering us about your publication. It has caused me hours and hours of issues’. I told her, ‘Good, that’s the point’.”
Howarth was awarded an OBE for her work in sustainability in 2022. Outside work, Howarth likes to go rock climbing with her sons. She also enjoys running with friends and travelling.
Aron Landy
CEO
Brevan Howard
Aron Landy is one of the longest-serving members of Brevan Howard’s core team, having joined the hedge fund in 2003.
Under his leadership, its assets under management have more than quadrupled over the last five years to around $35bn, and staff numbers have swelled from 150 to more than 1,000 in offices worldwide, including in London, New York, Abu Dhabi and Singapore.
Prior to being appointed CEO in 2019, Geneva-based Landy was chief risk officer at Brevan, a role in which he spearheaded the development of the firm’s risk systems.
Earlier in his career, he was a trader at firms including Millennium Global Investments, Optimum Asset Management and Tokai Bank Europe.
Outside work Landy enjoys cycling and is also a passionate linguist. With a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge University, he previously taught at the London Business School, and has been a part-time lecturer at City University.
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