Aziz Francis

CEO

Brook Lane Capital

Aziz is the founder and CIO of Brook Lane Capital, an Investment and Asset Management platform focusing on real estate, credit and special situations with close to €1Bn of assets under management. in Greece, BLC closed 15 transactions in the last 4 years across the office, logistics, residential and hospitality sectors and has more that €400M in greenfield development projects.

Before setting up Brook Lane Capital, he was a partner at Spinnaker Capital in London where, for 10 years, he led more than $2Bn in transactions covering structured credit, high yield, distressed debt, restructurings, liquid equities and sovereign special special situations. He started his career at Morgan Stanley in London where he was part of the Mergers and Acquisitions execution team and then the Leveraged and Acquisition Finance team working on transactions in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany. In 2005, he was part of building the Morgan Stanley Principal Investments team in Europe, a proprietary special situations fund with $4Βn of on-balance sheet capital. 

He graduated from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris with a Grande Ecole Diploma. Prior to that, he received a law degree from Saint Joseph University and a BS in Business Accounting from the Lebanese American University in Beirut