Kevin Lawi has joined Credit Suisse Asset Management’s direct lending team within the Credit Investments Group as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager in Private Credit, and will serve as head of origination.
Lawi joins CSAM from the private credit business of PSP, one of Canada’s largest pension funds, where he served as a Senior Director responsible for origination and underwriting and led the industrials and FIG industry verticals.
In his new role, he will focus on originating transactions across the capital structure, including direct first lien, unitranche, second lien and preferred equity financings.
Lawi will look to work with leading private equity sponsors and corporates to target opportunities and will be based in New York where he will report to John G. Popp, Managing Director, Global Head and Chief Investment Officer of the Credit Investments Group at Credit Suisse Asset Management.
Prior to PSP, Lawi spent seven years in Goldman Sachs’ leveraged finance group and began his career in investment banking at JPMorgan. He is a graduate of Columbia University and holds a JD/MBA from Duke.
