Pravin Manglani is a Partner of the Firm and leads the Capital Solutions and Credit Opportunities investment areas. In his role, Pravin oversees the Firm’s investment activities in opportunistic private credit, preferred and structured equity, asset and royalty acquisitions, and other non-control investments for the Firm. RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm that builds high-growth companies with strategic capital solutions to founders and entrepreneurs. The firm currently manages approximately $10 billion in assets on behalf of a global group of blue chip institutional and family office investors. Founded in 2014 by Gerry Cardinale, RedBird integrates sophisticated private equity investing with a hands-on business building mandate that focuses on three core industry verticals – Sports, Media & Entertainment, and Financial Services.
Prior to joining RedBird, Pravin had a successful 20-year investing career having invested over $4bn of capital across the capital structure and across both private and public formats, predominantly non-control investments including via opportunistic direct lending, preferred / structured equity, minority equity, asset acquisitions, platform capital, and stressed and distressed debt purchases. Most recently, Pravin was a Managing Director at Anchorage Capital Group, a $25bn+ AUM alternative investment firm, leading their US private capital efforts for their drawdown investment funds. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director and senior investment professional at Macquarie’s Principal Finance business, a $10bn+ AUM investing effort across the capital structure in private situations utilizing the firm’s balance sheet.
*Speaker at invite only CEO Forum September 24