Maitland makes senior corporate services hire

André Pottas.

Maitland, the global advisory and fund services firm, has appointed André Pottas as Head of Corporate Clients (Operations). He is based in Cape Town, responsible for corporate client operations worldwide.

Mr Pottas is a Chartered Accountant (SA). He has 21 years of international experience covering financial services, debt origination, securitisation and project and infrastructure finance.

He joins Maitland from Deloitte where he was a partner since 2003, initially in the Financial Services division and then in Corporate Finance, where he held a number of roles including Corporate Finance Advisory Leader for Africa and Infrastructure & Capital Projects Advisory Leader for Africa.

As part of his debt origination portfolio, Mr Pottas has provided advisory and transaction support services on a large number of debt capital issuances, in both the African and Eurobond markets. He is a past Chairman of the South African Securitisation Forum.