Twin Brook Capital Partners – the middle market direct lending subsidiary of Angelo, Gordon & Co. – has hired Faraaz Kamran, a former Managing Director and Group Head of Healthcare Leveraged Finance at Madison Capital Funding, as a Partner to head its Healthcare Lending initiative.
In his new position, Mr. Kamran will focus on originating and underwriting loans to middle market companies in the healthcare sector, primarily those with private equity sponsors.
“We welcome Faraaz to the firm, as we continue to bolster our bench of talent while broadening our product offering to the private equity sponsor community,” said Christopher Williams, a Partner at Twin Brook. “Faraaz has deep expertise in healthcare lending, and his appointment at Twin Brook underscores our commitment to the healthcare sector.”
Before his time at Madison Capital Funding, Mr. Kamran worked at Merrill Lynch Capital Healthcare Finance as a Vice President. Mr. Kamran also worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago.
“I am thrilled to join Twin Brook, given the strength of the franchise and the team’s expertise in middle market lending,” said Mr. Kamran. “I have years of experience working with many of the partners at the firm and I am confident in our ability to build a market-leading healthcare business.”
Twin Brook focuses on loans to companies with EBITDA between $3 million and $50 million. The firm is led by Trevor Clark and Christopher Williams, two of the original founders of Madison Capital Funding. Other Twin Brook Partners and Principals include Richard Christensen, David Gibson, Grant Haggard, Drew Guyette and Jessica Nels.
Twin Brook recently completed its 18th financing and has committed over $325 million of capital to companies in its first eight months of operation (www.twincp.com).
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