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Q+A: Arrow Global on making a €4bn Spanish splash
Following Arrow’s acquisition of Amitra Capital from CPP Investments, Zach Lewy, Founder, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer, caught up with Amy Finch, Senior European Correspondent at React News, to discuss the strategic rationale behind the acquisition, the targeting of market cycles in Spain, expected increases in distressed restructuring opportunities, partnership plans, potential expansions into the Spanish residential and student housing markets, and exploring new opportunities in France and Germany.
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Zach Lewy
CEO, CIO, Fund Principal
Zach has more than 25 years of executive experience in investment management and asset servicing. He founded Arrow Global in 2005 and has since led the business as Group CEO and CIO, transforming it into a leading Pan-European investment manager specialising in private credit and real estate. Under Zach’s leadership, Arrow manages more than €110 billion of serviced assets across Western Europe and generates alpha across alternative asset classes, including opportunistic credit, real estate, and lending.
Zach has supervised over 3,000 deals at Arrow and plays a key role as lead Principal in Arrow’s fund manager. Prior to founding Arrow, he was an Officer of Sallie Mae, a Director at Vertex (the BPO division of United Utilities), and a Founder and Executive Director of 7C (a U.K. BPO company acquired by Vertex). He has also served as Chair of the U.K. Debt Buyers Association and the Chair of SCOR. In 2010, he was named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
Zach graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Economics with Honours and a Certificate in Applied and Computational Mathematics with Honours.