Paul Rex is an experienced banker with unusually wide exposure to both developed and emerging markets, having spent 18 years in management positions with two major banks (Chemical Bank, now JP Morgan Chase, and Crédit Agricole) followed by 30 years consulting on banking and financial sector assignments in the UK and overseas.
Paul’s areas of specialisation include credit and specialised lending across a wide range of sectors; investments; Non-Performing Loans and enterprise restructuring across a number of industries; banking strategy; and enterprise risk management (including capital adequacy);. He has been internationally recognised as an expert witness in high value banking litigation.
In his work as a consultant and an expert witness, Paul has worked in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. He has been engaged in more than 70 cases to address a range of areas which include lending and credit approval procedures, trade finance and other forms of specialised lending. He has given oral evidence in several cases, most recently in a UK extradition hearing for the owner of Kingfisher Airlines (2017); a London Arbitration (2015), IRD v Westpac New Zealand (2009, High Court of New Zealand) and KBC & BOTM UFJ v Ferrero & Others (2009, High Court).
Paul has an MA from The Queen’s College Oxford and is a Fellow of the Academy of Experts, a Member of the Expert Witness Institute and an accredited Mediator.
