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  • HarbourVest Partners this week detailed plans for a new fund to invest in the debt of European private equity-backed mid-market companies, offering institutional investors an easier way of accessing the asset class and relieving the pressure on bank lenders.
  • FIG
    Citi this week reshuffled its loans team line-up and promoted Ashu Khullar to co-head of loans for Europe, the Middle East and Africa with Richard Basham. They will take on responsibility for emerging market loans, while Paul Simpkin will take sole charge of the leveraged finance and high yield business.
  • Citi has reshuffled its loans team line-up and promoted Ashu Khullar to co-head of loans for Europe, the Middle East and Africa with Richard Basham. They will take on responsibility for emerging market loans, while Paul Simpkin will take sole charge of the leveraged finance and high yield business.
  • FIG
    David Bassett, Royal Bank of Scotland’s global head of syndicate, started a sabbatical at the beginning of the week leading to an interim structure being established for the bank’s syndicate and frequent borrower businesses.
  • Thierry d’Argent, the high-profile former JPMorgan banker hired by Société Générale last May to revitalise its M&A coverage effort, has been made global head of mergers and acquisitions at the French bank.
  • Prudential’s audacious $35bn bid for AIA has shaken-up the once cozy world of FIG advisory. David Rothnie assesses the positions of those involved, from Credit Suisse’s elevation to UBS’s odd absence.