Chris Hawes

Managing Director, PwC

Chris is a Managing Director in PwC’s Debt & Capital Advisory business and has 25 years of experience in

Corporate Lending, Asset Based Lending, Receivables Finance and Trade Finance.

He has structured and closed large and complex ABL transactions, and built stand alone ABL businesses

with full P&L, Balance Sheet and Portfolio responsibilities.

At Royal Bank of Scotland Chris headed up the Corporate Asset Based Lending business in the UK, working

closely with colleagues at Citizens Bank in the US to originate and close UK and cross border transactions.

Moving to HSBC he became Head of Transaction Risk Management for Global Trade and Receivables

Finance in Europe, overseeing a portfolio of local and cross border facilities including Non Recourse

Receivables Purchase, Recourse Receivables Purchase, Supply Chain Finance and Asset Based Lending. In

addition to European responsibilities he was asked to undertake a secondment to Hong Kong to establish

Asset Based Lending in HSBC Asia, concluding with a structuring and execution of an Asset Based Lending

facility in South Korea.

Chris joined PwC in November 2021