David Valiant is a Director with BNP Paribas Corporate Finance, specialized in Financial Institutions in EMEA. He has more than 13 years of experience, first as an attorney, with the regulator, and in investment banking.

He has successfully advised on numerous transactions in the financial institutions sector, and has notably advised in several situations involving recapitalizations and restructurings of banks, and the public sector, particularly in Southern Europe.

He notably advised the HFSF in the first recapitalizations of the Greek banks, and several of the mergers in the banking sector. He also advised the Ministry of Finance on the second round of recapitalizations, and certain Greek banks in their equity raises.