Tikehau Group has appointed Debra Anderson to its private debt business. She will be based in London and responsible for expanding Tikehau’s credit business on a pan-European basis, alongside Patrick Marshall, who joined Tikehau Group in September 2013.

Anderson most recently served as a senior managing director at Blackstone/GSO, where she established and managed Blackstone’s European CLO business and then co-managed GSO’s European customised credit strategies business.

Prior to Blackstone, Anderson was the leveraged loan portfolio manager at Intermediate Capital Group and established and ran Abbey National’s leveraged and acquisition finance lending business. She has over 27 years of credit lending experience.

Founded in 2004, the Tikehau Group invests and manages long-term capital for institutional and private investors in various asset classes (credit, listed and private equity, real estate). In 2007, the Tikehau Group launched Tikehau IM, an investment company specialising in fixed income products. The Tikehau Group is majority held by its managers, alongside institutional partners, such as Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, Unicredit and Amundi. The Tikehau Group manages over €3.2 billion in investments and has €500 million in shareholders’ equity. – Sarah Husband