Breal Group hires Russell Gilling to lead mid-market equity deal origination

• Breal Group appointed Russell Gilling to focus on sourcing new mid-market equity investment opportunities.
• Gilling brings more than 40 years of financial services experience spanning banking, asset-based lending origination, transaction structuring, and relationship management.
• He began his career at NatWest, spending 20 years at the bank.
• He later held origination roles in asset-based lending at Bank of New York, GMAC, and Landsbanki.
• Gilling joined US Bank PNC in 2011 to help build a London origination team, then worked with Brent Osborne in 2018 to launch the ABL platform Breal Zeta, later rebranded as BZ and sold to a US fund.

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