Team
Team members are the greatest strength of Siguler Guff
All Professionals
Varun Agarwal
Michael Apfel
Fernando Arakaki
Pedro Luis Aranha
Jeb Banks
Christopher Barbier
Jenna Beekman
Sarah Bellis
Bradley Bennett
Matthew Bernstein
Sara Bowdoin
Elena Brown
Tammy Budd
Ken Burns
Thomas Burns
Tami Cai
Mário Carolo
Beam Chandraprasert
Shelly Chen
Cesar Collier
Meghan Conaty
James Conticello
Taylor Coundouris
Clara Custodio
Meghan Danaher
Bibhusha Dangol
Rebecca Darcy
C.J. Denmark
Mark Denomme
Jordan DiTommaso
Adam Domanico
Matthew Downes
Brenna Embry
Justin Eskind
Jim Fink
Matthew Foley
AJ Guff
John Ging
Klaudia Gjeta
Theresa Glorioso
Mitchell Goldfarb
Lucas Grant
Jordan Greenberg
Sean Greene
Peyton Grenley
Drew Guff
Timothy Hagerty
Keith Hamilton
Donald Harris Jr
Carolyn Heffernan
Laura House
Susan Huang
Alexander Huo
Jun Isoda
Aviral Jain
Lea Johnson
Sandip Kakar
Kevin Kester
Shaun Khubchandani
Fiona Kolterman
Kyungoh Kook
Scott Krattenmaker
Jarrad Krulick
Ilomai Kurrik
Megan Laakso
Michelle Layne
Edward Lederle
Gee Lee
Sandra Lee
Sharon Liang
Robert Ligouri
Timothy Lo
Avery Lynch
Sean R. MacDonald
Faith Maiello
Michael Malinics
Michael Martynowicz
Michelle Matthews
Alexandre Mauad
Jose Mayoral
Kelly McKeveny
Edward McQuiston
Udit Mehta
Trey Meyer
Rhoda Minderhoud
Langdon Mitchell
Katherine Moraski
Alexa Morris
Jason Mundt
Meghan Murphy
Melissa Natale
Elisangela Oliveira
Jaqueline Olson
Timothy Ong
Marie Ong
Kentaro Otani
Bailey Palumbo
Ranjan Panda
Prabhas Panigrahi
Elizabeth Panzera
Marcelo Phillips
Bernardo Piquet
Joshua Posner
Luisa Reis
Victoria Roytvarf
Eric Rustad
Daniella Sagalovsky
John Scheurer
Lauren Schmidt
Sumil Sethi
Heemin Shin
Nadeem Siddiqui
George W. Siguler
Roman Simonov
Nicole Stauffer
Alicia Stevens
Michael Stovall
Marcos Tage
Jason Tan
Helen Tang
Stephanie Tazza
Jodee Telfer
Nikhil Velivela
Daniel Vieira
Narihiko Watanabe
Nathan Wawrowski
Matthew West
Eugene Williams
Jonathan Wilson
Clifford Yonce
Valentyn Zadorin
Ally Zhang
Vivian Zhu
James Zumot
Michael Apfel
Partner and Head of Credit and Special Situations
Michael Apfel is a Partner and the Head of Credit and Special Situations at Siguler Guff. Mr. Apfel oversees Siguler Guff’s credit platform, which includes special situations, distressed, opportunistic private credit, specialty finance and other niche credit strategies where he is responsible for developing and implementing the investment strategy, sourcing and selection of investments, negotiation of terms and conditions, as well as portfolio monitoring and risk management. He is a senior member of Siguler Guff’s investment staff, participates on the Investment Committee for various funds, and serves on the Firm’s ESG Committee.
Mr. Apfel has over 30 years of experience investing and managing credit platforms focused on liquid and illiquid non-investment grade investment strategies. Prior to joining Siguler Guff in 2019, Mr. Apfel was a founding member of MidOcean Credit Partners in 2009, an alternative credit firm with over $8 billion assets under management. While at MidOcean, Mr. Apfel was a Senior Portfolio Manager and the Head of Opportunistic Credit Strategies which included drawdown funds, hedge funds, and other fund strategies. Mr. Apfel also served as the Chief Investment Officer, overseeing the investment business, including portfolio management, research and trading. He was a member of the firm‘s Investment, Risk and Management Committees. Mr. Apfel was actively involved in leading the business strategy, product development and capital raising initiatives, driving the firm’s business growth from an initial credit opportunity fund into a broad-based alternative credit platform.
Prior to joining MidOcean, Mr. Apfel was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Deerfield Capital Management, an alternative credit investment management firm with over $12 billion of assets under management, where he was responsible for building and managing the firm’s opportunistic credit portfolios, including direct lending. Prior to joining Deerfield, Mr. Apfel was a senior member of the Financial Sponsor Group at Bank of America originating and executing leveraged loan, high yield bond and equity transactions. Prior to joining Banc of America, he spent 5 years at Bankers Trust as a Senior Vice President in High Yield. Mr. Apfel began his career as a member of the Leveraged Finance Group at Chemical Bank, N.A., where he worked in New York and London.