Identifying bad credits, avoiding missteps and safeguarding private credit portfolios against loss
INTERVIEWSERIES
Robin Doumar, Founder & Managing Partner, Park Square Capital
August 2025
In this exclusive interview, Robin shares his unique insights on the opportunity set in private credit today across Europe and the US, including how investors may consider positioning their portfolios in the current environment. He provides his perspectives on how LPs can keep loss rates to a minimum and guard against missteps when investing in the asset class and discusses how investors can distinguish between good and bad credit.
Watch the full interview which covers:
00:21 - As a credit investor, how are you positioning your portfolio in the current environment?
1:17 - How would you characterise the opportunity set in credit today in Europe vs. the US?
3:00 - How did you first figure out what good credit versus bad credit looks like?
3:50 - Your loss rates are best in class, what do you attribute that to?
4:35 - With the flow of capital into the private credit space, what advice can you provide to LPs to guard against missteps?
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Robin Doumar, Founder & Managing Partner, Park Square Capital
Robin is the founder and Managing Partner of Park Square Capital, LLP. Robin chairs the firm’s Investment Committee and Executive Committee.
Before founding Park Square in 2004, Robin spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs in New York and London, where he headed the US Workout and Restructuring practise, headed the European leverage finance business, and headed the European Mezzanine business within the Principal Investment Area.
Robin received his AB from Brown University, and a JD and MBA from the University of Virginia.
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