Paul Lock

Mr Lock is a former advisor and financier, working with companies across a range of industries including the mining sector. Paul also has experience as a physical commodities trader and a derivatives trader, trading options and yield bonds. Before joining Flagship Minerals, Paul founded and worked as a corporate adviser at Everspring Partners, a Sydney based boutique advisory firm. Earlier he held corporate advisory and leveraged/project finance roles at a leading Australian commercial bank, initially focusing on resource sector project finance before moving into leveraged finance for private equity and corporate advisory roles. Prior to banking, Paul worked at Rothschild & Co as a derivatives trader and bond investor, focusing on distressed and complex assets, and was involved in structuring derivatives solutions for resource companies. He began his career with Japanese trading conglomerate Marubeni Corporation in the soft commodity trading division.