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Appointment of Christian Forster to the Management Committee of the Rail Working Group

19th August 2019

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Christian Forster, Managing Director & Partner, Apex Rail GmbH, to the Management Committee of the Rail Working Group.

With his broad experience and network acquired in the area of transport- and infrastructure finance over the past 25 years, Christian set-up his own advisory firm Apex Rail together with his business partner in April 2017. Before then, Christian had worldwide responsibility for Rail Finance at Deutsche Bank (2009-2015) where he had leading roles in financing commuter rolling stock for Thameslink in the UK, passenger high speed trains for Eurostar and refinancing a European portfolio of rolling stock for Alpha Trains. He also led and arranged a large corporate refinancing of the leading freight car leasing company VTG, consisting of syndicated loan facility and US private placement. In the US rail market Christian was involved in successfully closing railcar financings involving bank debt and asset securitizations. He was also an advisory board member of Railpool, a company he helped be set-up in his capacity as shareholder representative of HSH Nordbank. His railway financing experience started with the manufacturers ABB and Adtranz.

By combining his industry experience with his product knowledge, structuring skills and process know-how in asset- and project finance, Christian has the ability to advise our clients in variety of situations. He is fluent in German and English, has good working knowledge in French and Norwegian and has basic knowledge in Italian.