MC Credit Partners

Founder Ashok Nayyar sets overall strategy, drawing on his tenure as Global Head of Leveraged Finance at Morgan Stanley. The firm highlights that its senior investment team collectively carries more than 350 years of experience across credit underwriting, M&A, and restructuring. Day-to-day investment committee decisions leverage that multidisciplinary group rather than a single-point CIO model.

The firm's origination model leans heavily on relationships built by a senior team with more than three decades of presence in the leveraged-finance ecosystem. Its CLO business, which invests in broadly syndicated loans, provides a continuous view of market-clearing spreads and structures that informs private-deal negotiation. The firm targets middle-market companies that need capital solutions outside the standardized box of a bank-led syndicate.

MC Credit Partners operates as an alternative asset manager, not a family office. Founder Ashok Nayyar's background is institutional — he led Morgan Stanley's leveraged finance group globally — and the firm manages third-party capital through direct-lending funds and CLO vehicles rather than stewarding the wealth of a single family.

The firm is primarily a direct lender making its own credit decisions, not a fund-of-funds allocator. Its CLO platform does invest in broadly syndicated loans, which can include positions in deals arranged by other managers, but the core of the firm is balance-sheet origination of first-lien, second-lien, and mezzanine loans directly to middle-market borrowers.

The firm writes first-lien senior secured loans, second-lien loans, and subordinated mezzanine debt. It also co-invests equity alongside debt packages on a selective basis — a feature that can align the manager with sponsor or borrower outcomes when a pure credit instrument would misprice the risk.