Liquidity Exchange: Private Credit & Secondaries Forum

Andrew is a Partner on the investment team in New York, leading deals and sitting on the Investment Committee.

He joined Hollyport in 2021 as an investment team Principal in the London office and relocated to New York in 2024. Andrew originates potential opportunities and leads project teams as they are evaluated and presented at Investment Committee. He also focuses on outreach to market intermediaries, fund managers, and potential sellers.

Andrew has worked in private equity secondaries for more than 14 years and has seen the market develop from around $20bn of transaction volume to over $150bn. He has focused on GP-led transactions for the last seven years and is an expert in this field.

Andrew graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Banking and Finance and holds an MBA from INSEAD.  He has worked and studied in five different countries: the US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, and France. As well as travelling, Andrew loves to ski, hike, play tennis, and listen to live music.

Claudine oversees an integrated team of transaction, valuation, restructuring, project finance, and dispute resolution professionals serving clients throughout the lifecycles of their businesses. With specific expertise in managing opportunities and roadblocks that can impact a business moving forward, Claudine and her team help clients achieve optimal outcomes in protecting and growing stakeholder value.

Claudine serves as an adviser to public and private companies, both domestically and internationally. Her clients comprise the full gamut of financial sponsors including private equity investors, independent sponsors, family offices, alternative investment funds, lenders, and strategic investors. Her areas of knowledge include strategic advisory, quality of earnings analyses, identifying revenue sources and profitability drivers, examining operating cost structure and sustainability factors, investigating business models including cash flow and financial projections, reviewing quality and realization of assets and liabilities, identifying working capital requirements and negotiating positions, post-close working capital verification, and adjustment mechanisms.  

Claudine was named to Mergers and Acquisitions 2019 list of the most influential women in mid-market M&A, and Crain’s NY 2018 most notable women in consulting.

Mr. Cecchini has over two decades of experience as a market strategist and portfolio manager. Prior to joining Axonic Mr. Cecchini was Founder and Chief Strategist of AlphaOmega Advisors, an independent research and consulting firm. Prior to founding AlphaOmega Advisors, Mr. Cecchini served as a Global Chief Market Strategist as well as Head of Cross Asset Strategy at Cantor Fitzgerald. As part of the firm’s cross asset effort, the firm’s credit analytics team was part of Mr. Cecchini’s responsibility. Prior to joining Cantor, from January 2007 to December 2009, Mr. Cecchini was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Seven Bridges Management, LP. Seven Bridges was an event-driven, special situations hedge fund seeded by Ulysses Management. Prior to Seven Bridges, Mr. Cecchini spent four years at BNY Mellon’s predecessor, Mellon Financial Corporation (within its Mellon HBV Alternative Strategies, LLC subsidiary) most recently as a Managing Director and group head of distressed investing. He directed securities selection, portfolio construction and portfolio hedging. Until its acquisition by Mellon Financial, he spent three years as an analyst and senior analyst at HBV Capital Management. From 2005 through 2007 and upon its emergence from bankruptcy, he sat on the Board of Directors of a North American integrated aluminum producer. Mr. Cecchini has chaired or served on numerous equity, unsecured, secured and bank steering committees. Mr. Cecchini speaks routinely at conferences and appears on various media outlets. Mr. Cecchini holds an MBA from Columbia University (Dean’s List), a JD from Boston University School of Law (Edward F. Hennessey Scholar), and a BA from Haverford College.

Paul Marino is a partner in the Financial Services and Corporate Groups. Paul focuses his practice in matters concerning financial services, corporate law and corporate finance. Paul provides counsel in the areas of private equity funds and mergers and acquisitions for private equity firms and public and private companies and private equity fund and hedge fund formation.

Paul works on a variety of M&A transactions, including leveraged acquisitions, divestitures of business divisions, going-private transactions, and other strategic acquisitions and dispositions, in the following industries: manufacturing, telecommunications, consumer products, hospitality, healthcare, and technology, among others. His practice also includes joint ventures and general company representation matters.

Paul has represented national and multinational corporations, ranging from telecoms to tech companies, as well as real estate syndication and financial investors and investment advisors. He has also negotiated and structured a number of U.S. domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures.

Akhil Mago is the Founder and Portfolio Manager at Indago Capital LLC.  Prior to launching Indago, Akhil was Executive Managing Director, and Global Head of Structured Products at Och-Ziff.  Akhil was also a Member of the Och-Ziff Portfolio Committee and Commitments Committee.  While at Och Ziff, Akhil led a team of 14 investment professionals in New York and London that were instrumental in building Och-Ziff’s structured products and asset-centric investing business from inception.  His team managed a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of asset-focused investments.  Prior to Och-Ziff, Akhil was the Lead Mortgage Credit Analyst at Lehman Brothers.  Indago Capital is a private credit firm focused on the asset-based finance space.  In today’s environment of banking retrenchment, Indago Capital is designed to seize the opportunity to deliver bespoke, creative solutions to specialty finance counterparts who face increasing hurdles to traditional financing. Indago is uniquely positioned to step in where banks have stepped back, unlocking excess returns across both private and public markets