Bio

Wayne Jephson is a Managing Director with the Alvarez & Marsal Global Transaction Advisory Group, splitting his time between London and Birmingham. He brings 18 years of experience in financial due diligence, with a specific focus on infrastructure and private equity transactions and has worked with corporate, private equity, infrastructure fund and pension fund clients on buyside, sell side, refinancing and IPO transactions. Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Jephson spent 22 years with EY, the last 18 of which were within the Transaction Diligence team where he most recently served as a Director within its Infrastructure Transactions Group. Mr. Jephson played a pivotal role in the Infrastructure Transactions Group, from its inception in 2005, and has undertaken in excess of 100 infrastructure / energy transactions across the investment class from utilities (water, gas distribution, electricity distribution, last mile, metering), and renewables (wind, solar, hydro and biomass) to transport (ports, airports, toll roads, rail freight and rail franchises) and telecommunications (towers and masts, broadcast, fibre) in the U.K., Europe and Africa. He was also EYs sell side leader for infrastructure for three years from 2014-2017 and has undertaken more than 30 vendor / refinancing due diligence assignments in the sector. A U.K. national, Mr. Jephson earned a bachelor’s degree in law and business studies from Birmingham University (UK). He is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) and member of ICAEW’s Corporate Finance Faculty.