Colesco appoints Didier Boumans as Investment Manager in the Benelux region
Utrecht, 17/07/2024 – Colesco, a sustainability-led direct lender established to support leading European mid-market businesses in realising their sustainable growth ambitions, has appointed Didier Boumans as Investment Manager.
Adding Didier to the team further bolsters Colesco’s capabilities to support companies with ambitious sustainability plans. Colesco recently completed its first investment in the energy transition by providing a unitranche financing facility to the Circreate Group B.V. - a real testament to Colesco's commitment to providing bespoke financial solutions and driving change.
Didier brings over 15 years of experience in providing a wide variety of debt and hybrid capital products to support both local and multinational corporates and financial sponsors. Prior to joining Colesco, he was a key member of Rabobank’s Leveraged Finance team, focusing on the Benelux mid-corporate and wholesale market. Didier has been involved in more than 300 transactions to date, ranging from bilateral financing of small primary buyouts to the execution of syndicated loans of over 1 billion euros in multinational LBOs.
Didier holds an MSc in Financial Economics and an MSc in Business Administration from Maastricht University.
Didier Boumans, Investment Manager at Colesco said:
I am delighted to join Colesco. Being a former athlete, I feel a burning passion to make a sustainable difference for our clients. To help these companies to get the best out themselves day in and out and to invest in a better world in line with our Colesco purpose. I am very proud of what the team has already achieved in a short amount of time. I look forward to keep demonstrating why we are the best partner of choice."
Jacco Rolvink, Head of Benelux at Colesco added: “We are excited to welcome Didier to the Colesco team. Didier brings a wealth of deal experience and has longstanding relationships with key financial sponsors across the market. His appointment underlines our commitment to uniting capital and purpose, and I know his ability to originate and execute transactions will directly contribute to the next stage of our growth."
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About Colesco
Colesco is an innovative direct lender with a mission to unite capital and purpose. It provides senior secured debt (including unitranche loans) and subordinated debt to leading European mid-market companies (between €10m-€100m EBITDA) that seek to achieve their sustainable growth ambitions.
Colesco is backed by Rabobank – a global financial institution with a rich heritage. Colesco combines its long history of credit investing at Rabobank with a differentiated investment approach.
With a clear focus on thematic investing and a wide network in both its home market of the Benelux and across Europe, Colesco is a reliable, long-term partner to companies that want to realise their growth ambitions while offering investors the advantages of a growing private debt market.