Former financial institution and asset management executives Timothy Alexander and Aidan Brady have launched an advisory firm for real estate developers and operators.
Jackson Square Partners will provide capital solutions to private equity-owned businesses, corporates and property and infrastructure developers and operators.
Timothy Alexander
Source: Jackson Square Partners
The company will be led by the two managing partners. Alexander will also act as head of global capital solutions. He previously held senior positions at credit-focused asset manager Sound Point Capital Management and UBS. He also built UBS’s European loans and distressed trading and investing business.
Co-managing partner Brady will also serve as chair of the management committee and brings more than 30 years of senior leadership experience in financial services, including C-suite roles at Deutsche Bank UK. Most recently, he served as a senior adviser at one of the Big Four accountancy firms and set up a bond agency for UK local authorities.
The remaining senior leadership team comprises Charles Keyser who will join the London office with over 18 years of experience in originating, structuring and investing in private credit transactions, including roles as director of lending at Fidelity International and head of private credit origination at MeDirect.
Also joining is Justin Perry who will oversee Jackson Square’s US operations from the New York office. He has sell-side experience from senior roles at UBS, BNP Paribas, JP Morgan and Lehman Brothers.
Another new hire, Jerrard Zive, will operate from the London office, having worked previously on traditional banking and investment banking models, through to more specialised credit-focused platforms, working as co-head of EMEA structured credit sales at BAML and head of EMA securitised product sales at Nomura.
Further hires are expected imminently, with specialists focusing on opportunities in private credit and real assets.
Jackson Square’s team is already exploring a number of transactions in Western and Eastern Europe, the US and Africa, they said.
Alexander said: “We see a considerable opportunity in real estate, driven by the need for the delivery of new property types in response to structural changes to the world economy, the need to reposition existing assets in the face of changing occupier demands and environmental regulation.
“There is also the need to right-size certain broken capital structures, as the era of extend-and-pretend draws to a close and lenders reckon with a higher-for-longer interest rate environment.”
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