Bio

Etienne Welgemoed is a director in the Transaction Advisory Services practice, based in the London office. Etienne has more than 8 years of experience specializing in providing commercially focused technical accounting advice to support on a wide variety of transactions across many industries and geographies. Prior to joining Duff & Phelps, Etienne was responsible for deal origination, structuring and execution of bespoke insurance and reinsurance transactions at a multi-national insurance company. He started his career in investment banking and then went on to help build Ernst & Young’s Transaction Structuring and Accounting offering in their Financial Services division. He also led the “on-call” technical accounting advisory team, holding key relationships with the front office and corporate development teams for most investment and high street banks. Etienne’s experience includes advising on mergers and acquisitions, financial due diligence, debt-to-equity transactions, non-performing loan reorganizations, setting up of work-out structures, securitizations, divestments of core and non-core assets and the design of financial instruments and products. At Duff & Phelps, Etienne will assist in growing the Transaction Structuring and Accounting team and service offering by bringing insight into complex transaction matters, financial instruments and commercial complexities. He assists clients throughout the complete transaction lifecycle, including identifying, evaluating, executing, optimizing and disposing. of assets. Etienne is a chartered accountant and received a bachelor’s degree in accounting and law (with distinction) from University of Pretoria.