Team
Team members are the greatest strength of Siguler Guff
All Professionals

Michael Apfel

Fernando Arakaki

Pedro Luis Aranha

Megan Auwarter

Christopher Barbier

Jenna Beekman

Bradley Bennett

Matthew Bernstein

Marvin Bigalbal

Sara Bowdoin

Elena Brown

Tammy Budd

Ken Burns

Pedro Cafaro

Tami Cai

Mário Carolo

Shelly Chen

Cesar Collier

Meghan Conaty

James Conticello

Taylor Coundouris

Clara Custodio

Meghan Danaher

Bibhusha Dangol

Ana Elisa de Cunto

C.J. Denmark

Mark Denomme

Adam Domanico

Brenna Embry

Justin Eskind

Matthew Foley

AJ Guff

Luka Galvão

Alexis Gentry

Sarah Gheewala

John Ging

Klaudia Gjeta

Theresa Glorioso

Mitchell Goldfarb

Lucas Grant

Jordan Greenberg

Sean Greene

Drew Guff

Timothy Hagerty

Donald Harris Jr

Bailey Hawthorne

James Hilton

Laura House

Susan Huang

Alexander Huo

Jun Isoda

Aviral Jain

Lea Johnson

Sandip Kakar

Kevin Kester

Shaun Khubchandani

Fiona Kolterman

Scott Krattenmaker

Jarrad Krulick

Ilomai Kurrik

Megan Laakso

Michelle Layne

Edward Lederle

Gee Lee

Sandra Lee

Sharon Liang

Robert Ligouri

Brian Ludemann

Sean R. Macdonald

Faith Maiello

Michael Malinics

Michael Martynowicz

Michelle Matthews

Jose Mayoral

Tyler McEwan

Edward McQuiston

Trey Meyer

Rhoda Minderhoud

Langdon Mitchell

Katherine Moraski

Alexa Morris

Jason Mundt

Meghan Murphy

Melissa Natale

Jaqueline Olson

Timothy Ong

Marie Ong

Kentaro Otani

Bailey Palumbo

Prabhas Panigrahi

Elizabeth Panzera

Marcelo Phillips

Joshua Posner

Luisa Reis

Eric Rustad

Daniella Sagalovsky

John Scheurer

Lauren Schmidt

Sumil Sethi

Yiting Shan

Heemin Shin

Nadeem Siddiqui

George W. Siguler

Roman Simonov

Nicole Stauffer

Alicia Stevens

Marcos Tage

Jason Tan

Helen Tang

Stephanie Tazza

Jodee Telfer

Amish Thakkar

Daniel Vieira

Narihiko Watanabe

Matthew West

Eugene Williams

Jonathan Wilson

Matthew Yannocone

Clifford Yonce

Karen Yu

Valentyn Zadorin

Ally Zhang

Vivian Zhu

James Zumot

Josh Zweig

Will Siguler

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.