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Twin Brook Capital Partners
Angelo Gordon veteran Trevor Clark founded Twin Brook Capital Partners in 2014, taking the firm's middle-market direct lending practice independent under...
Twin Brook Capital Partners
Angelo Gordon veteran Trevor Clark founded Twin Brook Capital Partners in 2014, taking the firm's middle-market direct lending practice independent under the broader AG umbrella. The Chicago-based firm was purpose-built to serve private equity sponsors pursuing acquisitions in the lower middle market, a segment Clark identified as structurally underserved by bank-led syndicates and larger credit funds. In 2023, Twin Brook received a minority investment from Bonaccord Capital Partners, a GP stakes specialist, to deepen alignment across the partnership. Twin Brook operates as a direct lender, originating and holding senior secured loans to PE-backed companies with EBITDA typically between $3 million and $25 million. The firm provides unitranche, first lien, and second lien financing for leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, acquisitions, and growth capital. Its portfolio spans business services, healthcare, industrial technology, and consumer & retail sectors. Notable financings include backing Gryphon Investors' acquisition of Rootstock Software in 2024 and supporting LLR Partners' investment in digital health platform CareFeed. Since inception, Twin Brook has deployed over $40 billion and counts more than 50 investment professionals operating from a single Chicago office. In 2022, the firm closed its fifth flagship fund, AGTB Fund V, at $3.9 billion, bringing total committed capital to roughly $37 billion across all vehicles. The firm also manages separate accounts and co-investment vehicles alongside its flagship funds, which draw limited partners including public pension plans, insurance companies, and endowments. Twin Brook's structural differentiation lies in its agency model — the firm underwrites, closes, and holds every loan on its own balance sheet rather than syndicating risk to other lenders. That "buy and hold" approach eliminates the market- clearing risk that syndicated lenders face in volatile credit environments and gives private equity sponsors a single counterparty through close. The minority GP stake sale to Bonaccord in 2023 extended the partnership without altering investment control, reinforcing a governance model designed for multi-decade continuity.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
2014
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Chicago
Corporate office
Chicago, IL, United States
Principals
Trevor Clark
Managing Partner & Founder
Chris Williams
Partner
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Twin Brook Capital Partners?
Trevor Clark, the firm's founder and managing partner, chairs the investment committee and sets the strategic direction. Day-to-day underwriting is led by a senior team of partners who have largely worked together since the Angelo Gordon era. The partnership structure emphasizes consensus-driven credit decisions rather than delegated individual authority.
What size companies does Twin Brook target?
Twin Brook focuses on lower-middle-market companies with EBITDA typically between $3 million and $25 million. The firm considers this segment the 'lower core' of the middle market — too small for broadly syndicated loan desks but large enough to support institutional-quality underwriting standards and sophisticated private equity sponsor relationships.
Does Twin Brook syndicate its loans or hold them on balance sheet?
Twin Brook operates a buy-and-hold model. The firm underwrites and retains every loan it originates rather than distributing pieces to other lenders. This eliminates syndication risk for the private equity sponsor — the terms Twin Brook commits to at signing are the terms that close, with no market-flex language that could reprice or restructure the deal before funding.
How is Twin Brook related to Angelo Gordon?
Twin Brook was founded as a distinct legal entity within Angelo Gordon's alternative credit platform in 2014, when Trevor Clark and his team carved out AG's lower-middle-market lending strategy into a dedicated, separately branded operation. Angelo Gordon remains a strategic partner, and Twin Brook's flagship funds carry the AGTB prefix. In 2023, Bonaccord Capital Partners acquired a minority stake in the management company, diversifying ownership beyond AG.
What transaction types does Twin Brook finance?
The firm finances private equity-backed leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, add-on acquisitions, and growth capital investments. Twin Brook also occasionally provides refinancing for existing portfolio companies when sponsors are executing dividend recapitalizations or seeking to optimize capital structures ahead of a sale process.
Does Twin Brook invest outside the United States?
Twin Brook operates almost entirely within the United States, with a concentration on companies headquartered in the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast. The firm has not established international offices or dedicated non-US lending teams, and its limited partner base is predominantly North American institutional investors.
Which sectors does Twin Brook avoid?
Twin Brook explicitly avoids cyclical industrial businesses with high fixed-cost bases, commodity-exposed energy and mining companies, early-stage pre-revenue technology platforms, and any business model dependent on government reimbursement rate risk that cannot be modeled deterministically. The firm also does not lend to financial institutions or real estate operating companies.
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