Carlyle makes leveraged finance hire in Australia

Private equity firm the Carlyle Group has appointed David Balint director of Carlyle’s Asia leveraged finance group, based in Sydney.

Balint will manage Carlyle’s investment strategy in Australia and New Zealand and will report to Eric Mason, who heads the Carlyle Asia leveraged finance group. Balint has already started work in his new role.

Balint brings to his new job 12 years of investment banking experience in debt structuring, arranging and advisory. He joins Carlyle from Australia & New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) where he was a director of the leveraged and ...