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Colin Atkins is a Managing Director in the European Leveraged Finance Group. He is based in London.
Mr. Atkins joined The Carlyle Group in November 2004. Mr. Atkins has assumed responsibility for the credit function and specifically sources and executes primary transactions, conducts all secondary market trading and provides portfolio management support. Mr. Atkins was previously a Director with Prudential M&G where in 1999 he jointly established Prudential’s Leveraged Finance which became a market leader in the European institutional market. Over a five-year period the business invested € 2.5 billion in the asset class. Mr. Atkins had responsibility for primary market execution, secondary market trading and latterly portfolio management of two CDOs and one institutional fund in the leveraged finance asset class. Prior to that, Mr. Atkins was in Corporate Private Placements at PPM America in Chicago and held positions in Prudential’s Corporate Tax and Treasury departments.
Mr. Atkins holds a B.A. (Hons) in accounting & finance from Nottingham Trent University, is a member of The Association of Chartered Management Accountants (ACMA) and is a CFA Charterholder. | 