Michael M. Mezzacappa is the co-head of The Private Credit Group and a member of the Corporate Department. His practice focuses on representing agents, lenders and borrowers in a variety of complex financings and credit arrangements, including acquisition financings (sponsor-led and strategic acquisitions and "going private" transactions, to name a few), dividend recapitalization financings, asset­ based loans, cash flow loans, special situations loans, DIP loans, bridge financings and cross-border and multi-currency loans. He has extensive experience representing agents and lenders in multi-tiered financing facilities, second-lien and unitranche loan facilities (including "B" loans and other "last out" structures), mezzanine and subordinated debt facilities, distressed debt facilities and intercreditor and subordination agreements. Michael helps investors craft and implement creative hybrid capital solutions that straddle traditional debt and equity, and advises on distressed investing, debt restructuring and workouts.

Michael is a member of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section, the New York City Bar Association, the Commercial Finance Association and the Turnaround Management Association. Michael obtained his B.S., with honors, from City University of New York in 1993, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from New York Law School in 1998, where he served on the New York Law School Review.

Nick Pepe is a Partner at Apollo and the firm’s global lead Product Specialist for Asset-Backed Finance (ABF). He oversees product growth and development across Apollo’s ABF and adjacent strategies, leads capital formation for the platform, and manages the ABF Product team. In addition, Nick serves on the steering committee of the Apollo Family Network, which supports families through volunteer opportunities, education, and community engagement.

Prior to joining Apollo, Nick spent six years as Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Mill Hill Capital LLC, where he co-founded the Mill Hill Convex Credit Fund and served on the firm’s investment committee and board of directors. Earlier in his career, he spent thirteen years in Citi’s Securitized Markets Division, focusing on asset-backed finance transactions for the firm’s institutional clients.

Nick graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in Economics.

EXPERIENCE

Brad Charchut joined Bain Capital in 2011. He is a Partner on the Credit team and member of the Private Credit Group, responsible for capital markets and originations in North America.

Prior to joining Bain Capital, Brad was a Senior Director at Cerberus and a Vice President at Heller Financial.

EDUCATION

Brad received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA from Northwestern University.

Meenal Mehta is a Senior Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Direct Lending Investment Team. Meenal is also a member of the Diversified Lending Investment Committee. In her role as Co-Head of Underwriting, she oversees the day-to-day underwriting of diversified investments.

Before joining Blue Owl, Meenal was a Managing Director at Antares Capital, a direct lender to middle market firms based in New York. Prior to that, she was a Vice President at GE Capital. Meenal began her career as a Manager at L&T Finance Limited, Mumbai India in the Treasury Group.

Meenal received a BS in Commerce and Economics from Sydenham College, Mumbai University, a MS in Management Studies with a specialization in Finance from NMIMS, Mumbai University and an MBA from Emory University's Goizueta Business School.

Mr. Stewart is Global Co-Head Corporate Credit and is based in Dallas. He serves on the Leadership Committee and is a member of several investment committees.

Mr. Stewart oversees global public and private corporate credit investing strategies which include private credit, broadly syndicated loans, hybrid capital solutions and opportunistic/distressed credit. Mr. Stewart has 19 years of experience investing in corporate credit. Prior to joining Fortress in 2014, Mr. Stewart was a Managing Director at Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, a middle market private equity and credit investment firm, where Mr. Stewart led origination, execution and portfolio management for the direct lending, distressed debt and hybrid capital strategies. Before that, Mr. Stewart was an analyst at Houlihan Lokey in the financial restructuring group.

Mr. Stewart attended the University of Southern California where he received a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance.

Mr. Mandinach is a managing director in the Newport Beach office. He leads product strategy for PIMCO’s global credit and private strategies platform, responsible for corporate, asset-based, and multi-asset public and private credit and private real asset debt and equity strategies. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2010, he worked in business development for the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange, where he developed derivative contracts on environmental commodities. Previously, he was a vice president in the structured products group at Bear Stearns. He has 19 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware.