Credit with Purpose and Insight
Kennedy Lewis Investment Management is a multi-strategy private credit platform with the expertise to provide creative capital solutions. While targeting middle-market and non-sponsor-backed businesses, Kennedy Lewis maintains the flexibility to pursue opportunities across the broader private credit landscape.
The Kennedy Lewis Difference
Kennedy Lewis applies extensive credit experience and a selective approach to identify and lead opportunities in parts of the private credit market where few others compete. Our focus on non-sponsor lending, rigorous structuring, and proactive sourcing gives us greater control, stronger protections, and the ability to create bespoke capital solutions for our borrowers.
Decades of Credit Experience
Kennedy Lewis is grounded in the experience and pedigree of a leadership team that has shaped the evolution of the private credit landscape. Decades of shared tenure have honed the judgement, pattern recognition, and market instinct to navigate complex, debt-led, non-sponsor opportunities. Our depth of experience fuels a differentiated sourcing advantage, built on longstanding relationships and a broad network across the private credit ecosystem.
Non-Sponsor Focus
Kennedy Lewis is intentionally focused on the non-sponsor landscape, where complexity and independence yields greater control, stronger protections, and the potential for outsized returns. Operating outside of the sponsor-backed ecosystem allows the firm to lead financings and partner with businesses on terms that align investor and borrower interests, creating more cohesive and engaged relationships.
Sector-Driven Origination
Across Kennedy Lewis' platform, the firm employs a thematic, sector-driven investment approach that combines macroeconomic perspective with deep domain expertise. Investments are made with intention, focusing on areas of the economy where the firm's insight, relationships, and tailored capital solutions can create differentiated exposures in non-sponsor-backed businesses.
Full-Cycle Credit Platform
With a deliberate mix of opportunistic, core, and structured credit strategies, the Kennedy Lewis platform is designed to adapt across cycles and focus on where the firm sees value. Each product and vertical has been added with purpose, creating breadth that enhances optionality and cross-platform insights while maintaining discipline.
About Kennedy Lewis
An Intentional and Innovative Capital Partner
Founded in 2017 by David Kennedy Chene and Darren Lewis Richman, Kennedy Lewis has built its platform and partnerships on a foundation of intentionality. The firm and its affiliates seek to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns for clients by providing flexible senior secured capital solutions to middle-market companies in the US and Western Europe through four distinct, yet complementary products.
Kennedy Lewis By the Numbers
Kennedy Lewis has grown into a global private credit platform distinguished by scale, discipline, and experience. Guided by a seasoned leadership team and supported by a deep bench of professionals, the firm brings stability and reach to every facet of its business.
$
30
B⁺
Of Assets Under Management
24
Years
Average Leadership Tenure
5
Global Offices
140
+
Professionals
Investment Products
Solutions in the Non-Sponsor Ecosystem
Kennedy Lewis offers a diversified suite of credit-focused investment vehicles, including private funds, a business development company, a public REIT, and CLOs.
Our Team
Global Team with Deep Capabilities
Kennedy Lewis employs over 140 professionals with deep credit and industry expertise. The firm is headquartered in New York City and has additional offices in Miami, Florida, Geneva, Switzerland, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, and Scottsdale, Arizona.
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