Downing Private Equity

Parik Chandra is a Partner and Head of Private Credit at Downing LLP, where he leads specialist lending activities focused on real estate finance and wholesale lending facilities. With over 20 years of experience in corporate and investment banking, he has worked across leveraged finance, corporate lending, restructuring, and private equity placement. Chandra holds an MBA from Durham University and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investments.

Mark Gross is Partner and Head of Private Equity at Downing, with more than 20 years of private equity experience spanning origination, transactions and portfolio management, having overseen over £1.5 billion of equity and debt capital. Since joining Downing in June 2014, he has led the growth of the firm's healthcare investment activities and its Private Equity team, and he has worked across sectors including healthcare, hospitality and leisure, retail, business services, specialty manufacturing and financial services. He previously worked at UK mid-market private equity firm Caird Capital LLP and held principal investment and leveraged finance roles at Bank of Scotland.

Investment Director at Downing who worked on the Lighthouse Funerals deal team, focused on backing community-focused funeral businesses.

Torsten Mack joined Downing in January 2019 as an Investment Director, where he handles deal origination, execution, and portfolio management with an emphasis on healthcare and education opportunities. He previously co-founded and served as Commercial Director of a UK specialist education business, and held roles as Principal at BC Partners, Director of Corporate Development at the Priory Group, and Associate in real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs International. He holds a BA in economics from Brown University.

Bill Manahan is Director of Institutional Solutions at Downing LLP, where he works with institutional investors to identify investment opportunities aligned with their impact objectives. His role centers on relationship management and delivering against client goals to establish trust.