Mathew Feldman has joined The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) as a Managing Director on its Credit Opportunities team within the Carlyle Global Credit business. Mr. Feldman, who joined Carlyle on Sept. 5, is based in New York and reports to Alex Popov, who is head of Credit Opportunities. The team is focused on providing private solutions to borrowers who are otherwise unable to access capital markets, including corporate debt and investments in both real estate projects and companies.

Mr. Feldman has 12 years of credit experience, including the past six years with Davidson Kempner, where he was a senior member of the special situations group targeting public and private market investments in real estate and related industries, including the acquisition of a regulated credit institution in Southern Europe. He was previously a vice president of acquisitions at Square Mile Capital and a loan originations analyst with Gramercy Capital Mortgage REIT (NYSE: GKK). Mr. Feldman has a J.D. from Boston University School of Law and as well as a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Besides Credit Opportunities, Carlyle’s global credit businesses, with assets of approximately $31 billion at June 30, 2017, include: Loans & Structured Credit, Private Credit, Energy Credit and Distressed Credit. Those businesses have more than 100 investment professionals in New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Hong Kong, and London.