Appian Investment Partners s.r.l. ©
Appian Investment Partners is a management consulting firm focusing on sourcing, valuing, structuring and servicing of corporate distressed debt investments.
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Our main clients are distressed debt funds, banks and corporates.
Our Philosophy
Appian Investment Partners believes that, by pursuing an active and genuinely value-added investment strategy, it is possible to reconcile the profitability of investments in impaired loans with the interest of both creditors and distressed companies. Only by operating with very high efficiency, experience and professionalism - such as those acquired by Appian management during its long tenure in the field - and with an extensive network of qualified business contacts, it is possible to minimize the loss of debtor's goodwill, and promote the debtor’s turnaround, for the benefit of all parties involved. It is in this context that the role of Appian as “investment partners” becomes central.
The Founding Partner
Appian Investment Partners has been conceived and founded by Alberto Gnes in 2016. Before launching Appian, Alberto Gnes has worked for 15 years (from 2001 to 2016) for Merrill Lynch Group companies (later merged into Bank of America Corporation). From 2009 he has been a Managing Director in the Italian office of the Global Credit and Special Situations (GCSS) desk, responsible for distressed and special situations investments in Italy and (from 2013) NPL portfolio investments in Western Europe. From 2004 until 2009 Alberto has been a senior trading strategist at GCSS based in London, with responsibility over Italian transactions and among the most high-profile trades of the desk. From 2004 till 2010 he has represented Merrill Lynch in the joint venture with Fortress Investment Group on Italian NPL investments, becoming board member of Italfondiario S.p.A. (in the years 2008-2010). From 2007 until 2016 he has been CEO and (from 2011) Chairman of the Board of GEM 21 s.r.l., a wholly owned company of the BofA-Merrill Lynch group focusing on Italian compositions. In 1998 Alberto was awarded the “Marchesini” scholarship from the Rome Savings Bank Foundation and from 1999 until 2001 he has studied at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, earning an MBA with a double major in Finance and Management, attending (among several others) the courses of Corporate Finance and Valuation taught by Professor A. Damodaran and Business Restructuring by Professor E. Altman. From 1998 till 1999 Alberto has worked as executive in the corporate finance department of WestLB’s London based merchant bank, and in 1997 as equity analyst at Williams de Broë. He has been registered with the UK Securities and Future Authority as Securities and Financial Derivatives Representative from 1997 until 2013 and from 2013 till 2016 with the PRA/FCA. Alberto has graduated summa cum laude in 1996 in Business and Economics at the Rome University “La Sapienza”. He is currently member of the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation, Arché and the Turnaround Management Association - Italian Chapter.
Case Study
I Giardini di Sacro Monte Eco-immobiliare (GSM): Appian Investment Partners, with the financial support of an international institutional investor, has revamped the project formerly known as “I Giardini Sospesi" (The Hanging Garderns) - now “Borghi18” – in Varese, giving it a new impulse, so as to bring the project to completion, aiming at making an innovative residential complex, by means of using advanced installation solutions (like geothermal, rainwater harvesting, home automation, radiantfloor heating system) and enhancing its unique location at the base of the Sacro Monte (the Holy Mountain) in Varese.
Appian Investment Partners has:
1. Identified and evaluated the opportunity of investing in the secured bank exposure of the F.E.M.M. s.r.l. bankruptcy
2. Presented the opportunity to an international institutional investor assisting it in its evaluation
3. Assisted the investor in the negotiations with the loan originator and in structuring the securitisation transaction
4. Assisted the bankruptcy trustee in managing the real estate of the bakrupt company in order to preserve the building permits acquired by the bankrupt company
5. Assisted the investor in creating the ReoCo “I Giardini di Sacro Monte Eco-Immobiliare”, managed the completion works, the value enhancement activities, and the communication and sale strategy.
Contact us
Address
via Carlo Conti Rossini, 26, 00147, Roma, Italy
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Appian Investment Partners s.r.l. ©