Our Story
Monachil Capital Partners is a Greenwich, CT based private credit manager focused on opportunistic investing. The firm originates unlevered, privately negotiated, asset-backed, senior secured investments with attractive risk-adjusted returns. The firm strives to underwrite to a zero-credit loss on all investments with downside protection, control, and transparency as the foundation. The “process” driven alpha in our business produced by CIO Ali Meli is based upon bringing a creative and flexible approach to credit investing that is repeatable and disciplined.
The firm is most proud of its risk management framework, which focuses on retaining the "V" in LTV while delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns. Prioritizing diversity of investments by industry, product and geography, strict covenants, data analytics, and sizing deals in the $5-30mm range helps drive performance and mitigate risk. In addition, our senior management stresses alignment with our LP’s as they have invested over $30mm of their own capital into the fund with an unwavering commitment to building the firm’s technology, sourcing, and asset servicing infrastructure.
The investment platform founded by Ali Meli in 2019, is rooted in a strong risk management ethos and processes attributed to his nearly 15 years working at Goldman Sachs as a Partner and Global Co-Head of the Structured Finance, Investing and Lending group. This group was one of the most profitable business units at the firm with Ali at the helm having most notably engineered the “tactical short” on the housing marketing prior to the 2008 market collapse. During this time, Ali established himself as a trusted steward of capital and developed the plans of what soon would become Monachil Capital Partners. He has assembled an experienced team of private credit personnel which allows the firm to create a sustainable edge that is a function of the design of the enterprise and not one singular person.