9Questions is our Q&A series featuring key decision-makers in leveraged finance — get in touch if you know who we should be talking to! This time, 9fin talks to our first European capital markets interviewee, Murad Khaled, Head of EMEA Leveraged Finance Capital Markets at Bank of America.

Murad is responsible for underwriting, structuring and distributing sponsor and leveraged corporate financings across public and private credit markets for BofA Securities in Europe. He joined BofA in 2018 from HPS Investment Partners, where he spent four years in the European Private Credit team, responsible for sourcing, evaluating and executing principal investments across specialty lending, mezzanine, preferred and control equity strategies. Prior to HPS, Murad spent seven years as a member of the European Leveraged Finance origination team at JP Morgan.