This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
DAVID Di Pilla’s HMC Capital has appointed Adam Roberts-Thomson as its Co-Head of Corporate & Asset Finance.
Roberts-Thomson will work, alongside HMC’s chair of private credit Matt Lancaster and co-head of corporate and asset finance Dane Weiss, to scale the group’s credit platform and expand its capabilities beyond residential commercial development finance.
Roberts-Thomson brings 25 years of experience across Australian banking to the role, having worked for 17 years at CS/UBS, leading the CS Australian financing business since 2017.
This work spanned $14 billion of commitments across leveraged, corporate structured financings plus mortgages and margins loans for sponsors, corporate, entrepreneurs and ultra-high-net-worth and high-net-worth clients.
At HMC Capital, Roberts-Thomson’s work will include corporate, leveraged and acquisition financings, commercial real estate, alternative asset based and structured growth financing.
The appointment comes a week after HMC Capital scaled up its digital infrastructure platform with the acquisition of iseek, a leading Australian co-location data centre operator, in a $400 million deal.
Aligning with HMC’s strategic vision to develop DigiCo, an ASX-listed Infrastructure Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) targeting digital assets across Australia and North America.