Mavik Capital Management

The firm was founded by Vikram S. Pandit, who served as CEO of Citigroup from 2007 to 2012. Pandit steered Citi through the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent restructuring, before founding Mavik as his primary direct-investing platform. His background in complex risk management and global banking shapes the firm's focus on middle-market credit and real estate.

Pandit managed a roughly $2 trillion balance sheet during the most acute phase of the global financial crisis, an experience that gives Mavik a distinct lens on underwriting credit risk and capital-structure complexity. The firm explicitly targets 'dislocated opportunities' — situations requiring the kind of balance-sheet thinking and restructuring judgment that Pandit applied at scale inside a systemically important bank.

The primary differentiator is the founder's identity and network. Most emerging credit managers lack experience running a global bank. Pandit's relationships with sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and senior financial executives — built over three decades — create sourcing and co-investment channels that competitors without that Rolodex cannot replicate.