SINGAPORE—Debt-focused Tikehau Group has reportedly opened an office in Singapore as part of a strategy to expand its Asian activities.

The Paris-based company has also hired Suresh Withana, the founder of Asian special situations hedge fund Harmony Capital. Withana will work with Tikehau Investment management chairman Bruno de Pampelonne, said Dow Jones.

Tikehau was set up by former Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs bankers in

The firm also hired former Blackstone executive Debra Anderson to its European private debt team in April this year.

 

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