Mr. Ford is responsible for the direction of the investment activities of the Avenue Europe Strategy. Prior to joining Avenue in 2009, Mr. Ford was the Head of European Research based in London for the Distressed Products Group at Deutsche Bank, focused on European distressed and special situations investments across the capital structure. Previously, Mr. Ford was an Assistant Director in the Corporate Restructuring Group at Close Brothers Group, where he worked on a number of high profile European restructuring and distressed mergers and acquisitions transactions. Prior to joining Close Brothers Group, Mr. Ford was an Assistant Manager in the Banking & Capital Markets division of Pricewater