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Monroe Capital

Monroe Capital, a private credit leader in the US middle market

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Capital held by Wendel
72
Amount invested by Wendel
$1,130
Year of acquisition
2025

Founded in 2004 by Ted Koenig, Monroe Capital provides private credit solutions to borrowers in the US and Canada, managing more than $20bn(3) of assets across 45+ investment vehicles.

The firm, which is headquartered in Chicago, maintains 11 offices, of which 9 are in the US, 1 in Seoul and 1 in Australia. Monroe Capital has grown to a team of over 270 employees, including 115 investment professionals.

(1)Amount of equity invested by Wendel as of March 31, 2025.
(2) Amount of equity invested by Wendel as on March 31, 2025 for the acquisition of 72% of Monroe Capital. As part of the transaction, AXA IM also completed the acquisition of a minority stake in Monroe Capital.
(3) Committed and managed capital (as of December 31, 2024).
Key figures
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$20+ bn
assets under management
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800+
investments since creation
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11
offices in Europe
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270+
employees

A key player in mid-market private debt in the United States

Monroe Capital provides private credit solutions to borrowers in the U.S. and Canada, managing more than $20(1) billion of assets across 45+ investment vehicles. Monroe Capital’s strategic verticals are Lower Middle Market Direct Lending, Alternative Credit, Software & Technology, Real Estate, Venture Debt, Independent Sponsor and Middle Market CLOs. Each vertical has demonstrated strong investment performance and offers potential for significant organic growth.

Since its creation, Monroe Capital has directly originated over 800 transactions(2), has invested over $47 billion and has earned c.10% gross unlevered IRR(3) for its directly originated transactions. Monroe Capital’s LP base is very broad and diversified, including public pensions, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth investors from across the globe.

(1) Committed and managed capital (as of December 31, 2024).
(2) Figure as of December 31, 2024.
(3) Across fully exited companies.

Key milestones of the investment

Monroe Capital is a terrific company that has consistently delivered strong performance across various market cycles in North America, bolstered by a surge in demand for private credit solutions and with the scale to capitalize on the growing opportunity set we see in private credit. Monroe Capital is strategically positioned to capitalize on this increasing demand, attracting both institutional and retail investors.

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Laurent Mignon
Group CEO
2024
2025

Wendel reaches a milestone with the acquisition of Monroe Capital

Wendel’s ambition is to build a sizeable Asset Management platform managing investments in multiple private asset classes, alongside its historical Principal Investment activity. The development of the third-party Asset Management platform will provide Wendel with recurring and growing cashflows as well as exposure to multiple and high performing asset classes. The aim of this evolution of Wendel’s business model? To enable the development, over time, of a value-creating platform with the potential to generate operational synergies. As a result, Wendel’s dual business model is expected to generate an attractive and recurring return to shareholders.

With IK Partners and Monroe Capital, Wendel’s third party private asset management platform will reach c.€34 billion in AUM(4). In 2025, it will generate, on a full year basis, c.€ 455 million revenues, c.€160 million pre-tax FRE(5) (c.€100 million in pre-tax FRE (Wendel share)) by 2025 and has the objective to reach €150 million (Wendel share) in pre-tax FRE by 2027 .

(4) As of December 2024.
(5) EUR/USD @1.05.

Wendel’s role in corporate governance

Board of Managers
Laurent Mignon (Chairman)
Cyril Marie
Adam Reinmann
Stéphane About (Observer)