Experience

Phoenix Capital Partners

• United Kingdom
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Mar 2007 - Present

  As Founder, Anish started Phoenix, a Corporate Finance and Advisory Investment Boutique. The firm’s aim is to create and identify unique opportunities and partnerships around the world, focusing on the Emerging Economies of Africa, India and China, in the following sectors: • Technology (Blockchain, Proptech & Fintech) • Real Estate and Infrastructure • Renewable Energy and Traditional Energy • Oil & Gas and Mining The company’s first project was working closely with a HNW client in Cyprus to finance and develop a 235MW wind farm project across the Larnaca and Paphos regions in Cyprus. Phoenix worked closely with the contractor, the J&P Group and the Structured Finance Team at Deutsche Bank to arrange the €540m equity and debt finance required to deliver the project with a GDV of €720m. More recently, since the announcement of the prohibitive Stamp Duty changes in Dec. ’14, which lead to a structural change in the London residential market, Phoenix has moved away from the build to sell sector and has instead been focusing on developing ‘income strips’ within PRS, PBSA and Hotels as asset classes, creating alpha gains through planning and development. Since ’15, Phoenix has worked with HNW clients/family offices and purchased a number of sites, obtained planning permission for c. 450 PRS and 1,050 PBSA units. The projects are either being sold with the benefit of planning permission or being developed with a combined GDV of approximately £150m. Show less



Schools For Nepal

• United Kingdom
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder/ Trustee

  • Nov 2015 - Present

  On the 25th April 2015, Nepal suffered a disastrous Earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale and before things could settle, another earthquake of 7.4 magnitude jolted the country again on the 12th May 2015 with hundreds of subsequent aftershocks. The whole country suffered an inconceivable loss of lives and destruction to property and infrastructure. Thousands of schools and colleges were destroyed and levelled to the ground. With a total loss of over $6 billion USD, equivalent to about 30% of its GDP, Nepal has stood strong to get out of the perils of the disaster and the world has collectively contributed towards restoring stability. In order to make a small change to the lives of the young children who lost their centres of learning during this disaster, Dolma Gurung together with her partner, Anish Aggarwal of Phoenix Capital Partners and together with the CG Foundation in Nepal, have launched this initiative through a charity registered in the UK, Schools for Nepal. The aim of this charity is to put its all efforts, energy and resources into building new schools in the remote areas of the country which were either destroyed because of the earthquake and to provide access to education to the children who have been unfortunate to have suffered the trauma of the events of 2015 and lost their schools and in some cases, their loved ones too. Show less



Kurdistan Development Corporation

• United Kingdom
• Government Relations Services

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Jul 2003 - Feb 2007

  As Founder, Anish established a joint venture with the Kurdistan Regional Government ‘KRG’ in Northern Iraq with the Kurdish UK Representative as the Chairman of the company after the Coalition had declared the successful end of the liberation of Iraq in Mar. ’03. The business was based in London and Erbil, with the KDC identifying and bringing into Kurdistan: international capital, businesses and technology. The KDC set up joint ventures with companies from around the world within Kurdistan, to help to build the economy and create jobs while bringing in Foreign Direct Investment. The company’s first project in Dec. ’03 was working with the US, UK and Iraqi Governments arranging the first commercial flight in 30 years, flying into Erbil from Abu Dhabi, for 150 CEOs/ investors from around the world. Phoenix also identified and brought in one of Kuwait’s largest real estate developers, NREC into a Joint Venture to develop 1 million sq. m. of land for a mixed-use scheme, strategically placed between the airport and the capital city of Erbil. Show less



Various

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Sep 1993 - Jun 2003

  Since leaving Oxford University in 1992, Anish has successfully setup a number of diverse investments as the principal investor, both in real estate and the services industry. Anish has successfully exited numerous property development projects backed by Partners from Goldman Sachs, Directors from Merrill Lynch and a handful of established property developers. The projects delivered returns of over 50% on equity on a project level for over 10 years, based on alpha gains through planning and development. Anish also founded a security company which is now one of the largest private security companies in London, employing over 4,500 people across over 450 venues in Central London, working with diverse clients from Tiger Tiger, Novus Leisure to The Box and Simon Hammerstein. Show less