Tikehau Capital appoints Zens as head of CLO business

Tikehau Capital has appointed Christoph Zens as head of its CLO business, according to a press release published Feb. 23.

Zens, who will be based in London, joins the existing CLO team which includes Lorcan Kinsella, portfolio manager and trader, and Elizabeth Ryan, head of CLO transaction management. Zens will assume the role from Debra Anderson, who will retire in the second quarter of the year.

Prior to his new role, Zens spent over a decade at Commerzbank, where he was most recently an investment director within the debt fund management team. In that role, his responsibilities included managing the Bosphorus series of CLOs and private credit funds, as well as sourcing new investments in the European primary and secondary leveraged loan and bond markets.

Since launching its CLO strategy in 2014, Tikehau Capital has completed roughly €2 billion of new issuance across five CLOs, the last of which was the €451.2 million Tikehau CLO V that priced in July 2019. The firm has also launched its sixth CLO warehouse, according to the press release.