Pravin Manglani

Pravin Manglani is a Partner of the Firm and leads the Tactical and Credit Opportunities investment areas for the Firm.
In his role, Pravin will oversee the firm’s investment activities in preferred and structured equity, opportunistic debt, asset and royalty acquisitions, and other non-control investment formats for the firm’s Tactical and Credit Opportunity vehicles.
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 investing across the capital structure in private situations utilizing the firm’s balance sheet.
Early in his career, Pravin was trained at Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, as an initial member of the team at the formation of Americas SSG in 2003, and also was the 3rd investment professional to join Apollo Management’s credit hedge fund business in 2005, helping to scale Apollo’s initial efforts in credit.
Pravin pivoted to private capital investing in 2011, leading early unitranche market development post the financial crisis, having honed and developed his private capital investment expertise over the last decade.
Pravin holds both a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.