Growth private equity firm Palamon Capital Partners (Palamon) has appointed Philippe Arbour as a Partner, and Aqib Kadar as Director of Tax and Structured Finance. In addition, Antony Barker has been promoted to Managing Director of Investor Relations.
Arbour joined Palamon in 2013 from Lloyds Banking Group where he spent ten years working across a variety of roles spanning trade finance, specialist credit and leveraged finance. In 2006 Philippe was a founding member of Lloyds’ large-cap sponsor coverage and LBO execution team. In 2010 he was seconded to London-listed 3i, as a director in its Banking team. Arbour holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in addition to having earned an MSc in Finance & Investment from Durham University and a BBA (Hons Economics) from Bishop’s University, Canada.
Kadar is appointed to the position of Director of Tax and Structured Finance, joining from PwC where he was a Director working in M&A Tax. During his 13 years at PwC, Kadar supported numerous private equity firms, infrastructure funds, sovereign wealth funds and listed groups with structuring and due diligence on complex transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, refinancings and reorganisations.
Barker joined Palamon in 2013 from global placement agent Campbell Lutyens and DMC Partners, where he was an Investor Relations Associate based in London. Prior to that, he spent five years at Palamon, working across the breadth of Investor Relations and Marketing activities. Mr Barker gained a BEng from the University of Bath.
Louis Elson, Managing Partner of Palamon, says: “We pride ourselves on the depth and capability of our team and welcome Phil to the partnership recognising the tremendous contribution that he has made to our growth investment system over the past 5 years. He has played an instrumental role in each of our transactions, primary deals, add-on acquisitions, exits and portfolio re-financings and is a trusted partner to the high-growth companies in our portfolio. As we continue to extend and develop our in-house expertise, I am delighted to welcome Aqib to the team and to recognise Antony’s tremendous contribution to our Firm with his promotion to Managing Director.”
Arbour adds: “I am thrilled to have been elected to the partnership and to become more deeply embedded in the firm. I’ve spent the last five years helping Palamon to pursue its distinctive strategy of thesis-led investing in high growth companies on a Pan-European basis and I look forward to the next chapter of the firm’s success story.”
