Cesar Gueikian joined Monroe Capital as a managing director and co-portfolio manager. Working with Managing Director Aaron Peck, he will co-lead the firm’s new special situations credit strategy and manage the Monroe Capital Special Situations Credit Fund.

The new business strategy will focus on origination driven, senior and asset-based private debt, and secondary special situations with an emphasis on principal protection.

“We are very excited to add Cesar to the Monroe team,” said Ted Koenig, president and CEO of Monroe Capital. “Cesar has an accomplished career of over 18 years in special situations credit, and I am pleased to have him co-lead our effort in this area. Launching the new special situations credit strategy is a natural evolution for Monroe’s growth to expand its private credit business and offer our limited partners the ability to get unique exposure to the opportunistic and special situation asset based credit space. Adding this synergistic business puts Monroe at the forefront of private credit allowing our investors unique access and exposure to the entire spectrum of private credit solutions.”

Prior to Monroe, Gueikian was a founder and managing partner of Melody Capital Partners, a New York-based alternative asset manager focused on private debt and secondary investing. He was at UBS from 2009 until 2012 as the global head of the Special Situations Group. His responsibilities included overseeing all structured and private lending. He was also head of UBS Leveraged Finance Capital Markets for EMEA starting in 2010. His responsibilities included leveraged loans and high yield bonds across a variety of transaction structures including acquisition and bridge financings, refinancing and recapitalizations, working primarily with private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies.

Prior to UBS, he headed Illiquid Credit Trading for North America at Merrill Lynch. Gueikian began his career at Deutsche Bank, where he focused on credit analysis, corporate valuation, capital structure, waterfall and fundamental analysis.