Private Credit Associate, Special Situations
A leading private investment firm is seeking an Associate or Senior Associate to join its growing credit investment team in New York, NY. The firm specializes in providing customized capital solutions to middle-market businesses across a broad range of industries, with a focus on complex, opportunistic, and special situations transactions.
This is an opportunity to work directly with senior investment professionals in a lean, entrepreneurial environment, gaining significant exposure to all aspects of the investment process while helping originate, structure, execute, and manage investments.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate and execute private credit investments across a variety of structures, including senior secured debt, junior capital, rescue financings, growth capital, and special situations
- Perform detailed financial analysis, modeling, valuation, and credit underwriting
- Conduct industry, market, and company due diligence
- Prepare investment memoranda and present recommendations to senior investment professionals and investment committees
- Participate in transaction structuring, documentation review, and negotiations
- Monitor portfolio company performance and assist with ongoing portfolio management activities
- Work closely with management teams, sponsors, lenders, advisors, and other stakeholders throughout the investment lifecycle
Qualifications:
- 2-6 years of relevant experience in investment banking, leveraged finance, restructuring, private credit, direct lending, special situations, or credit investing
- Strong financial modeling, credit analysis, and transaction execution capabilities
- Experience evaluating middle-market companies and complex credit situations preferred
- Excellent analytical, communication, and presentation skills
- Ability to thrive in a rigorous, fast-paced, and highly collaborative investment environment
- Demonstrated interest in private credit, special situations, and opportunistic investing
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