Extending the Credit Horizon

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Private credit is reaching a broader investor base, but widening access cannot come at the expense of the institutional standards that underpin the asset class.

Speaking at the recent Funds Europe private debt roundtable, Jay Patel, Managing Director, Real Estate at Arrow Global, highlighted the demands this places on managers as private wealth participation grows:

“If you think about the private wealth channel, what they want is institutional level governance, retail level transparency and frequency, but local origination.”

For Jay, delivering that combination requires more than a new fund structure. Wealth investors expect more frequent reporting, greater transparency and the ability to interrogate individual assets in detail. That creates a significant operational burden, but it is also central to building long term investor trust.

It is a model that plays directly to Arrow’s strengths: deep local origination combined with institutional governance, asset level expertise and the operational infrastructure required to serve an increasingly diverse global investor base.

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Jay Patel

Jay Patel

Managing Director, Real Estate

Jay joined Arrow in 2023 and is a Managing Director in the Investment Team.  He has over 19 years of experience and has invested over €1.5bn in granular real estate transactions spanning traditional equity, distressed credit and special situations.

Prior to joining Arrow, Jay spent 6 years working for Strategic Value Partners where he was a leading figure in building their real estate distressed credit business in Europe.  Prior to this, he spent 6 years working for EQT (formerly Wainbridge) leading their opportunistic equity strategy in the UK. Jay also has experience in restructuring and M&A advisory from earlier in his career at Eurohypo and KPMG.

He graduated from Imperial College with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics.