Colesco, a sustainability-focused direct lender that gives finance to European mid-market companies, has appointed Didier Boumans as funding supervisor within the Benelux area.
Boumans has over 15 years of expertise in offering all kinds of debt and hybrid capital merchandise to help each native and multinational corporates and monetary sponsors.
Previous to becoming a member of Colesco, he labored on Rabobank’s leveraged finance crew, specializing in the Benelux mid-corporate and wholesale market.
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He has been concerned in additional than 300 transactions up to now, starting from bilateral financing of small main buyouts to the execution of syndicated loans of over €1bn (£841,000) in multinational LBOs.
Colesco stated that the appointment additional bolsters the agency’s capabilities to help corporations with bold sustainability plans.
It not too long ago accomplished its first funding within the power transition by offering a unitranche financing facility to the Circreate Group, which helps energy-efficient housing within the Netherlands.
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“We’re excited to welcome Didier to the Colesco crew,” stated Jacco Rolvink, head of Benelux at Colesco.
“Didier brings a wealth of deal expertise and has longstanding relationships with key monetary sponsors throughout the market. His appointment underlines our dedication to uniting capital and function, and I do know his means to originate and execute transactions will straight contribute to the subsequent stage of our development.”
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Boumans stated: “I’m delighted to affix Colesco. Being a former athlete, I really feel a burning ardour to make a sustainable distinction for our shoppers – to assist these corporations to get the very best out of themselves day out and in, and to put money into a greater world in keeping with our Colesco function. I’m very happy with what the crew has already achieved in a brief period of time. I look ahead to persevering with to reveal why we’re the very best associate of selection.”