Monroe Capital announced Matthew Evans joined the firm’s healthcare team as managing director in its Chicago office.

“We are very excited to add Matt to the Monroe Capital team,” said Ted Koenig, president & CEO of Monroe Capital. “Matt has had an extensive financial career working with middle-market companies across the healthcare industry. Matt will be responsible for leading our healthcare lending efforts in addition to originating cash flow and enterprise value based loans in private equity sponsored and non-sponsored transactions.”

Prior to Monroe, Matt was a principal at Beverly Capital, a healthcare focused private equity firm. He was formerly a VP in the Healthcare Leveraged Finance group at Madison Capital where he originated, structured and underwrote debt financing for private equity sponsored transactions. Prior to Madison Capital, Evans worked in Merrill Lynch Capital’s Healthcare Finance leveraged lending group.