Alinda Capital Hires Former Goldman Sachs Banker Bishop
February 10, 2012, 12:03 AM ESTBy Anjelica Tan and Aaron Kirchfeld
(Updates with Alinda’s deals in final paragraph.)
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Alinda Capital Partners LLC, the Greenwich, Connecticut-based infrastructure fund manager, hired former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Andrew Bishop to oversee European investments in projects like utilities and airports.
Bishop will start as a managing director in London in April, Alinda said in an e-mailed statement today. He has more than a dozen years of experience, and served as managing director in power, utilities and infrastructure investment banking at Goldman Sachs.
Bishop joins managing partner Chris Beale in helping to look after Alinda’s $7.4 billion of funds, which include investments in U.K. water utilities and inland container terminals in the Netherlands. Alinda calls itself the world’s largest independent infrastructure firm, with operations in the U.S., Canada, Germany and the U.K., according to its website.
In October, funds managed by Alinda agreed to acquire a 5.9 percent stake in BAA Ltd. parent FGP Topco Ltd. for 280 million pounds ($443 million). The purchase valued BAA, owner of London’s Heathrow Airport, at about $8 billion.
--Editors: Julie Alnwick, Chris V. Nicholson
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