York to focus on product and business
development
NEW
YORK, Sept. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SLR
Capital Partners, LLC ("SLR"), a private credit platform
specializing in direct lending to U.S. middle market companies,
announces that Chris York has joined
the firm as a Partner. York will focus on product and business
development, leveraging his 17 years of experience in the credit
and alternatives investment industry.
"We are excited to have Chris join our business development and
investor relations team," said Michael
Gross and Bruce Spohler,
Co-Founders of SLR. "His experience working with both public and
private credit investors will be invaluable as we expand our client
base."
Prior to joining SLR, York was a Managing Director and a BDC
Product Specialist at Blue Owl Credit where he was responsible for
cultivating new institutional investor relationships and supporting
client service through both educational assistance & markets
research about the evolving private credit marketplace, identifying
the attribution of fundamental performance drivers and
differentiation among BDCs in market that could lead to
outperformance among securities in a given opportunity set. Prior
to joining Owl Rock, he was a Managing Director & Equity
Research Analyst at JMP Securities (a Citizens Company), covering
the commercial & specialty finance industries where he was
responsible for advising institutional investors on the investment
in exchange-listed primary and secondary securities. York's formal
research coverage included more than 40 BDCs, mortgage REITs, and
U.S. SMID commercial banks, focusing on the origination of middle
market commercial credit among these lenders following the Great
Financial Crisis agnostic to structure or regulator and to identify
relative value. His BDC coverage during the asset class's
maturation received recognition as a Thomson Reuters Analyst Award
winner in earnings estimates and ranking as a top-quartile analyst
in stock picking by Tip Ranks, and JMP's equity research was
frequently quoted by the financial press. York has also held equity
research roles at ROTH Capital Partners, William Blair & Company, and commercial
banking roles at Bank of America and LaSalle Bank. He holds a
BBA in Finance and Investment Banking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
About SLR Capital Partners, LLC
Founded in 2006, SLR is a diversified middle market private
credit solutions platform. The firm is an SEC-registered investment
adviser and primarily invests in U.S. middle market companies in
the form of cash flow, asset-based, and specialty finance senior
secured loans. SLR manages public and private business development
companies ("BDCs"), private credit funds, and separately managed
accounts, including serving as the investment adviser to
publicly-traded BDC SLR Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: SLRC). The
platform was founded by Michael
Gross and Bruce Spohler, who
each have over 35 years of investment experience through multiple
credit cycles.
Contacts
SLR Capital Partners
Investor Relations
(646) 308-8770
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