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Portfolio of work, 2005 to now

Louis Pope

Portrait of Louis Pope

I run complicated things: a £200m restructuring, F1's first exhibition, an AI startup's founding team and seven ventures of my own.

The whole story, backwards

Apr 2024 to present

Evelyn Partners

now S&W

Assistant Manager, Restructuring & Recovery

Restructuring and insolvency, from a diamond mine in Lesotho to high street names.

I joined the restructuring and insolvency team on a contract in April 2024. Within two years Evelyn had converted me to permanent and promoted me from Restructuring Executive to Assistant Manager, both ahead of standard tenure.

The mandates are some of the most varied the firm runs: formal insolvencies, MVLs and CVLs end to end, advisory work before things break. One month a diamond mine in Lesotho, the next a high street name.

The largest was Park First, a CVA with more than 5,000 creditors and around £200m at stake. I ran point on the financial modelling, the creditor communications and the negotiation strategy that carried the proposal through.

Louis at a TMA restructuring conference, Evelyn Partners name badge on
Conference season.
Ice creams outside the office with two colleagues
With the team.

Currently studying for the ITIQ+ insolvency qualification.

The Park First CVA

5,000+

creditors

£200m

at stake

Dec 2025 to Mar 2026

Stealth AI startup

Chief of Staff

Chief of staff on the founding team of an AI startup in private markets. Strategy, operations and commercial.

That is as much as the NDA allows.

Apr 2023 to Apr 2024

Hamilton Bradshaw

Analyst

A year inside James Caan's private equity office.

Private equity analyst at Hamilton Bradshaw, reporting directly to James Caan CBE and the firm's investment directors.

The portfolio ran across 19 countries, so the work did too: due diligence, deal structuring, and the day to day relationship with founders and operating partners in each market, each with its own culture and way of working.

A joint venture meeting on a Mayfair terrace

Six joint ventures went from first due diligence to operational launch while I was there. Whatever the business needed, I picked it up and ran it.

A full table at an investment meeting
The Hamilton Bradshaw Christmas dinner
Christmas with the firm.
The red entrance tunnel of the Formula 1 Exhibition in Madrid, mid build

Oct 2022 to Apr 2023

Formula 1 & Round Room Studios

Coordinator

F1's first official exhibition, from empty warehouses to opening night in Madrid.

Hired onto the team launching the first official Formula 1 Exhibition: a six month sprint from empty warehouses to opening night.

I set up the warehouses in Essex and Oxford personally, then shipped tens of millions of pounds of cars, trophies and race artefacts around the world, coordinating between Formula 1, Round Room Studios and the constructor teams.

Louis with a McLaren front wing in its shipping crate
A Ferrari F1 car being prepped in the warehouse

For the opening I moved to Madrid and worked self directed, picking up whatever the launch needed that week: logistics, install, fixes.

Installation team hi-vis selfie
Installation Collections Team, it says.
Suited and masked for the pack out

It opened at IFEMA Madrid in spring 2023, the first venue of a planned ten year global programme.

The Madrid exhibition entrance with a bottle of Ferrari brut
Opening week, Madrid.
Pointing at Louis Pope on the exhibition credits wall
Somewhere in the credits.

Summer 2022

Church House Investment Management

Investment Intern

A summer inside a UK small cap fund.

A full research cycle on the UK Small Cap Fund: company profiles, valuation comparisons and sector screens used in the weekly investment meetings.

I built and maintained the position monitoring sheets, sat in on management meetings and earnings calls, and drafted the summary notes that went to the investment team.

Louis outside Buckingham Palace, flag at half mast, the evening the Queen died
8 September 2022. The internship summer ended with the flag at half mast.

Quiet, rigorous work, and a useful counterweight to everything else on this page.

Louis carrying a tray of pizzas at a Battersea Power Station event
Montagues at Battersea, 2025. Still trading.

Things I have built

Alongside every job on this page I have been building things. Some are still trading. One is a good story.

There is no pivot for jamming the Royal Mail.

On the end of Reel Cameras

Film

Seven years on film sets, both sides of the camera.

Supporting artist with MadDog and Universal Extras through school and university: His Dark Materials, Doctor Who, Brave New World, Industry.

Script supervisor on a feature with Amuse & Rasp Films. Kit hauled in whatever car was available.

Louis in a 1940s pilot costume on a film set
In costume with a prop rifle between takes
The supporting artist years.
A night scene being filmed around a fire
The video village glimpsed through set scaffolding
On the feature.
Camera flight cases loaded into the back seat of a small car
The kit travelled in whatever car was available.

Everything else

The long tail, briefly.

  • 2026The Wave. Surf host.
  • Charity race the length of Sri Lanka. Our team raised more than £100,000.
  • 2019 to 2022Wahaca, Southbank and Bristol. Worked through university, floor to head bartender.
  • 2021Meta training in digital advertising and audience scale.
  • 2018Christie's. Estates, Appraisals and Valuations internship.
  • 2018Sotheby's summer course.
  • 2018Virginia Hayward. Warehouse packing, promoted into a design role.
  • 2015 to 2017Royal Air Force cadets. Completed Basic Flight Training.
  • 2019 to 2022Hargreaves Lansdown. Consultancy partnership with a University of Bristol department.
  • St Cross Almshouse. Weekly visits to elderly residents.
  • Cancer Research Winchester. Community service programme.
A backgammon board mid game
Backgammon, taken seriously.
The route map of the Sri Lanka charity race, six legs marked
The race route, six legs.

Education

2019 to 2022

University of Bristol

BSc Management & Innovation

High 2:1. Dissertation marked 73.

Quantitative Analysis in Management. Accounting & Finance for Managers. Strategic Finance. Design & Systems Thinking for Innovation. International Business Management.

2012 to 2017

Winchester College

Cambridge Pre-U

D2, D3, M3, the equivalent of A*AB. Nine IGCSEs at the top grade.

School Prefect. Lady Morse Prize. Raising Books Prize, twice.

2005 to 2011

Sherborne Prep

Passed Winchester Entrance in place of Common Entrance.

Graduation day selfie in cap and gown outside the Wills Memorial Building
Louis in graduation gown with family outside the Wills Memorial Building
Wills Memorial Building, 2022.

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