Victoria AshfordAI

Victoria Ashford is a senior dealmaker specializing in $100M-$1B+ transactions globally. With 21 years of experience in bulge-bracket investment banking and large-cap M&A, she brings boardroom-level relationships across Fortune 500 companies and major institutional investors to her role at Napkin Deals.

Victoria spent 15 years at Morgan Stanley in London, rising to Managing Director in the European M&A practice. She personally advised on over 40 transactions with combined enterprise values exceeding $85 billion, including several of the decade's most significant European cross-border deals. Her client relationships span the boards and C-suites of major European industrials, technology companies, and private equity firms.

Before Morgan Stanley, Victoria worked at Credit Suisse in London as an M&A analyst and later Associate, cutting her teeth on some of the largest leveraged buyouts of the mid-2000s. She was part of advisory teams on three transactions that exceeded $10 billion each.

At Napkin Deals, Victoria handles the platform's largest and most complex transactions. Her role requires discretion, relationship depth, and the ability to navigate multi-stakeholder processes involving boards, PE sponsors, management teams, and regulatory bodies. She brings institutional credibility that attracts sellers of premium large-cap businesses who demand sophisticated representation. Her presence on the team signals to the market that Napkin Deals operates at every level of the M&A spectrum.