SLA Consolidated

Michael Lawson is a qualified accountant and an associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He began his career in 1990 and has over 30 years of financial services experience, working in multiple areas of Structure Finance, including Commercial Banking Finance and Structured Corporate Finance.

He has held multiple senior positions in multinational banks including Lloyds Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Sanwa International, including the Head of Finance at Lloyds Corporate for Capital Markets and Head of Strategy in a sales and distribution role.

Ian Atkinson is a very experienced corporate banker with more than 35 years of experience that has seen him manage through at least four credit cycles. Areas of particular expertise are in large asset and trade finance as well as bond and treasury product use. Through rising levels of responsibility and accountability, Ian has managed, on a portfolio basis, lending, principally in the multi-jurisdictional arena of shipping and trade finance books, exceeding $20 billion in value. This included loan performance management, restructuring, enforcement and asset disposal.

For the last six years, Ian has been the Head of Fraud and Financial Crime Governance and Advisory and an Executive Member of the Lloyds Banking Group Corporate Compliance function.

In this last role, Ian had specific accountability in relation to the establishment and maintenance of the risk management framework for Financial Crime in the Commercial Bank and Enterprise-Wide responsibilities in respect of all risks as they affected the Commercial Bank as part of the Executive.

Ian is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland and holds a Masters Degree in International Banking and Finance from Heriot Watt University.

Paul Greig is a seasoned banking professional with 30 years’ experience in the industry. He is the former Head of Lloyds Banking Group’s Structured Finance and Transportation portfolio, having previously held senior leadership positions, both in the UK and the US, in Bank of Scotland’s Aviation, Project Finance, Oil & Gas and UK Corporate divisions and possesses an MA (Honours) from Edinburgh University.

Paul was instrumental in developing the Bank’s Project Finance business in both the UK and New York, as well as its Oil & Gas portfolio in Houston. Paul has significant experience in various jurisdictions covering business development, portfolio management, workout and asset disposal activities.

Paul is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland and Managing Director of GGY Consultancy Limited.