Nowtash Alsafar

Experience

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  City Career Series

  Jul 2015 - Aug 2017

  Partner - Start-up

  Creating the global internet platform and working closely with coders and developers.Responsible for generating sponsorship and partnership revenue streams.

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  Clifford Chance

  Aug 2017 - Sept 2021

  Corporate Real Estate, Leveraged Finance, Private Equity (London) and General Corporate (Middle East - Secondment).

  • Private Equity and M&A

    Aug 2019 - Sept 2021

  • Trainee

    Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
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  3i Group plc

  Aug 2019 - Nov 2019

  Private Equity Secondee

  3i Infrastructure - supporting deal teams across Europe and the Americas.

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  Blue Horizon Asset Management

  Sept 2021 - now

  Investor

  Investment Team - investing in asset classes including private equity, growth equity and special situations in the UK SME market. I am responsible for the private equity strategy in the Fund founded by Paul Taylor (CIO).Paul, one of the pioneers of the ‘opco-propco’ model and Total Return Swaps, was responsible for the acquisition of Four Seasons Healthcare, Harrods, and Shell Mex House to name a few. He founded and managed Three Delta that had £5bn AUM and was responsible for the acquisition of 25% of Sainsburys. Other involvement included the investment and development of Vilamoura World alongside Lone Star Funds, one of the largest single resort and marina developments in Europe. Show less

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  Five Talents UK

  Dec 2021 - now

  Board Member

  Personal capacity. UK charity which supports communities with training to build small businesses and more sustainable incomes. Unlike most microfinance programmes, the Five Talents’ model is savings-led: the members save together within Savings Groups and from their own accumulated funds, they make loans to one-another. It has supported over 260,000 members across the globe.https://www.fivetalents.org.uk/about/meet-the-team/nowtash-alsafar.