Interpersonal skills and maturity to communicate effectively with lower middle market management teams and extract actionable intelligence from complex situations; Advanced Excel Skills: Ability to build operational and financial models, correlation, valuation, runoff, liquidation, and various other types of analyses with limited supervision; Proven and demonstrable analytical capabilities, ability to creatively extract and evaluate relevant data points from imperfect sets of information; An entrepreneurial mindset and the capability to manage multiple complex situations in parallel, understanding the operating requirements of private businesses during growth, evolution and potentially turnaround phases; Effective writing skills for the creation of memorandums and investment performance summaries; Ability to understand and negotiate complex credit and other legal agreements; Advanced familiarity with capital structure and corporate debt including: Leveraged Finance; Restructuring; Structured Finance; and ABS. 8 - 12 years of relevant experience with a special situations, private equity or private credit firm, or top-tier restructuring advisory firm - Corporate restructuring, private credit, private equity, or special situations, specifically with hands-on experience in directly managing workouts, restructurings, and crises management with borrowers and company managers.