Steve Shenfeld

Steve Shenfeld is Chairman of MidOcean Credit Partners and is responsible for the strategic development activities of the Firm. Steve is a member of the Risk Committee and a member of the Investment Committee. Steve has 38 years of experience both investing in credit markets and financing non-investment grade companies. Prior to joining MidOcean Credit Partners at its inception in 2009, Mr. Shenfeld was a General Partner and Founder of a private equity fund (MD Sass Macquarie Financial Strategies, LP) for MD Sass, a widely recognized investment management organization. As General Partner, he was responsible for directing all origination, investment and structuring of acquisitions. Prior to MD Sass, Mr. Shenfeld was a General Partner at Avenue Capital Group LLC, where he invested in distressed debt, credit and special situations utilizing a broad range of investment techniques including capital structure arbitrage, event driven credit, secured lending, and bankruptcy advocacy. Mr. Shenfeld has also worked at Banc Boston as a Managing Director and Group Head for Debt and Capital Markets and Leveraged Finance, and was a Partner at Bankers Trust where he ran the global capital markets sales and trading organization, which included high-yield, distressed debt and credit derivatives. Mr. Shenfeld also worked as a high-yield trader at both Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette and at Salomon Brothers where he began his career in 1983. Mr. Shenfeld has a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from University of Michigan Business School.