Anish Butani

Anish Butani

Managing Director, Private Markets

Anish Butani is a Managing Director in the Private Markets team at bfinance and leads the firm’s coverage of the infrastructure asset class. Since joining bfinance in 2017, Anish has advised a broad range of clients globally in allocating over $10bn to the infrastructure asset class. Prior to joining bfinance, Anish gained over ten years’ experience as a corporate financier, advising on mergers and acquisitions, financings and valuations of assets in the infrastructure asset class primarily at KPMG in London and latterly at John Laing Group plc, the international developer of infrastructure projects, where he was responsible for leading and shaping divestment processes of their infrastructure project portfolio during 2016/17. Under Anish’s leadership, bfinance was recognised in 2019 & 2020 by Infrastructure Journal as ‘Best Investment Consultancy’ as recognised by leading market participants in the asset class.


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