Key Takeaways
- Geography: United Kingdom.
Analysis
Arcmont Asset Management has expanded its senior investment team with three strategic appointments designed to accelerate growth across its private credit franchise. The hires bolster capacity in the firm’s Impact Lending, Capital Solutions and NAV Financing efforts as Arcmont seeks to capitalise on an active European deal market.
The most senior arrival is Alexander Waller, who joins as a Partner within Arcmont’s newly established Impact Lending strategy. With a 25-year track record in real-asset focused private credit, Waller will be responsible for scaling origination and structuring for sustainability-linked credit solutions.
Two other experienced hires join the investment ranks. Imo Skrzypczyk comes in as an Associate Partner to strengthen Arcmont’s Capital Solutions platform, bringing specialist experience in opportunistic real estate and asset-backed structures. Greg Varympopiotis is appointed Principal to support the firm’s NAV Financing and structured-credit capabilities, enhancing the team that targets NAV-based financing and secondary liquidity solutions.
Chief Executive Anthony Fobel described the moves as deliberate reinforcement of the firm’s investment engine. He said the new appointments were intended to broaden sector expertise and to deepen execution capacity as Arcmont captures an expanding pipeline of sponsor-driven and bespoke credit mandates.
The hirings come after a period of strong fund-raising and product launches at Arcmont. In 2024 the firm closed its Direct Lending Fund IV and related vehicles with approximately €10 billion of investable capital. More recently the group launched an Impact Lending strategy supported by mandates totalling €475 million from institutional investors APG and TIAA, and unveiled a wealth-market strategy leveraging Nuveen’s distribution platform.
These developments underline broader trends in European private credit. Institutional allocation to private credit has grown each year as borrowers look beyond banks and as investors chase yield in a low-rate era; global private credit AUM surpassed the high hundreds of billions in recent years and Europe has emerged as a particularly dynamic region for direct lending, NAV solutions and structured credit. Firms that can combine origination scale with specialist product capabilities are best positioned to win mandates.
For Arcmont, the new hires signal a push to diversify product depth while retaining a focus on private-credit niches where differentiated structuring and bespoke solutions command premium pricing. Market observers say demand for NAV financing and bespoke impact-linked loans has increased as private markets mature and secondary activity rises — areas where the newcomers’ skills are directly relevant.