One of the largest private equity firms in the world strengthens its operations in Australia when it appointed senior ANZ executive David Balint as director of Carlyle Asia Leveraged Finance Group.

Based in Sydney, Balint will manage the team's investment strategy in Australia and New Zealand but will report to Eric Mason, head of Carlyle Asia Leveraged Finance Group.

With12 years industry experience, Balint was previously at ANZ as a director of the Leveraged & Acquisition Business based in Sydney for four years.
Before that, he worked with ANZ's Project & Structured Finance offices in Melbourne and London where he was a financial advisor and arranger/underwriter to the Project Finance markets in Australia, Europe and the Middle East.

"David's addition underscores Carlyle's continued confidence in the investment opportunities in leveraged finance within the Asia Pacific region," said Mason.
Carlyle Asia Leveraged Finance Group was set up last May, complementing Carlyle's leveraged finance teams in the U.S. and Europe. It has expanded into a team of six professionals in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney and manages more than US$14 billion globally in 24 funds.