Twin Brook Capital Partners, the middle-market direct lending subsidiary of Angelo, Gordon & Co., added Garrett Ryan to the firm as a partner and head of Capital Markets.

At Twin Brook, Ryan will be responsible for all capital markets related activities and will be based in Chicago.

Ryan joins Twin Brook from Fifth Third Bank, where he served as managing director, Debt Capital Markets, responsible for structuring and originating transactions for the bank’s clients. Before joining Fifth Third Bank in 2008, Ryan was director, Capital Markets at CapitalSource, where he structured and distributed debt products for private equity firms involved in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and refinancings of middle-market companies. For nearly a decade, he served as director, Loan Syndications at LaSalle Bank, and before that, was loan officer, Corporate Banking at Allied Irish Bank.

“Garrett is an accomplished executive with extensive experience originating, structuring, and overseeing the execution of middle-market leveraged transactions,” said Trevor Clark and Chris Williams, co-heads of Twin Brook. “Given the overwhelming demand we have received from our private equity clients to agent and lead their transactions, we believe the timing is right to add a head of Capital Markets to the Twin Brook team. We welcome Garrett to the team and look forward to leveraging his strong network of relationships and debt capital markets expertise as we continue to deliver strong financing solutions to the middle-market private equity community.”

Twin Brook focuses on loans to companies with EBITDA between $3 million and $50 million.