John Hubball, Author at Kingsbury & Partners - Private Markets & Private Office Consultancy

John Hubball

A Guide to Common Fund Structures in Private Markets

Navigating private market investments requires a clear understanding of fund structures, legal and regulatory frameworks that govern how capital is pooled, managed, and distributed. Whether you're a high-net-worth individual, a...

A Guide for Professional Investors: Credit Linked Notes (CLNs)

Credit Linked Notes (CLNs) are structured financial instruments that offer investors a unique blend of fixed-income returns and exposure to underlying credit risk. For high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors seeking...

Credit Linked Notes: A Smarter Route to Raising Capital for UAE Real Estate

The UAE real estate market is booming—and everyone wants in. Developers, landowners, and sponsors are racing to raise capital to meet demand across residential, hospitality, and mixed-use assets. But for...

Our Conversation with Legacy Talks

In this episode, our Managing Partner Ben Rockell and Chief Investment Officer John Hubball sat down with host David Tarbotton, CEO of Legacy Capital to unpack the way these products...

Why Professional Investors Are Turning to Credit Linked Notes – And What That Means for Growing Businesses

Many growth-stage businesses are asking the same question: How do we raise capital without giving away equity or accepting venture debt on punishing terms?...

How Credit Linked Notes Can Access Institutional Capital

At Kingsbury & Partners, we don’t just structure CLNs—we place them. And successful placement requires knowing the distribution infrastructure that sits beneath global private credit....

Expanding Opportunities: Our Latest Partnership with Alt Lending

At Kingsbury & Partners, our mission has always been to deliver innovative financial solutions that provide exceptional value to our clients with transparency at the core of each opportunity. Today,...

Introduction to Actively Managed Certificates (AMCs)

In a rapidly evolving financial landscape, investors continuously seek solutions that offer growth potential paired with active management. Actively Managed Certificates (AMCs) have emerged as an innovative category of financial...

What is a Security Trustee’s Role in an Investment?

Firstly, security trustee services are not regulated by the FCA. Disclaimers on some of the larger security trustee websites state something along the lines of “we do not perform oversight...

What is a Credit Linked Note?

A Credit-Linked Note is an instrument that is issued by companies who wish to raise finance. Similar to a bond, the issuer defines the underlying “credit risk” to the investor,...

Private Credit: Supplying the Demand

Recently we have seen both investors and issuers switch their preference from private equity and public debt to private debt otherwise known as private credit. The feel on ground is...

What is the Process of Securitisation?

Securitisation is a financial process that allows institutions to transform illiquid assets into tradeable securities. It involves pooling various types of debt—such as mortgages, auto loans, credit card receivables and...

Due Diligence & Private Credit Investments

Due diligence on financial instruments is a specialised and time-intensive skill requiring expertise in asset classes, regulations, and market conditions. It serves as a vital safeguard, ensuring decisions are based...

Loan Notes, Uncovered – Common Issuer Mistakes

Very seldom do companies start out life with a view to lose any investors money. Defaults and delays do happen, but we have seen that there is a very similar...

Loan Notes, Uncovered – Marketing vs Security

Many people have been invested into loan notes, commercial papers, promissory notes in the “loan note boom” since 2019. They can be a relatively easy, simple and cheap way for...