GE Commercial Finance Energy Financial Services to arrange and underwrite debt

Energy companies now have another option when it comes to choosing who will help finance a project or arrange a debt placement for them. GE Commercial Finance Energy Financial Services is to broaden its role as an equity and debt investor to include underwriting and arranging energy debt.

To that end, the company has named Don Kyle, a capital markets and energy finance veteran, as managing director and capital markets leader in its debt products unit.

Kyle joins GE from SG Cowen Securities, part of French bank Société Génerale, where he was head of project finance debt markets. There he was responsible for originating and executing debt-placement transactions in the bank syndication and public and private capital markets for the project-finance, energy and infrastructure