Lantana Capital
Senior Originator, Opportunistic Credit & Special Situations | Fully performance-based compensation
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About Lantana Capital
Lantana Capital is a Private Investment Office and Special Situations Advisory firm operating across global markets. We focus on direct investment opportunities across sovereign and corporate debt, distressed and special situations, litigation and arbitration claims, and a broad range of sectors, including oil & gas, mining, aviation, shipping, infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing, financial institutions, and telecoms. Deal sizes typically range from $10 million to $200 million. Lantana provides integrated expertise across capital markets advisory, deal origination, structuring, and corporate debt recovery.
Role Overview
Lantana Capital is seeking senior-level professionals to join its Opportunistic Credit & Special Situations team in London on a fully performance-based basis. Successful candidates will have a demonstrable track record of sourcing, structuring, and executing private credit and special situations transactions across high-yield, stressed, and distressed environments in all geographies, including emerging and frontier markets.
This is a partnership-style mandate rather than a salaried position, with no base salary or draw. Compensation is structured as a percentage share of net income generated from transactions and mandates the individual originates or leads, with no cap on upside.
The role requires an individual who can operate with a high degree of independence across the full transaction lifecycle, from origination through underwriting, execution, and portfolio monitoring, while cultivating deep relationships with management teams, financial sponsors, restructuring advisors, corporate and government counterparties, intermediaries, and co-investors globally.
Core Responsibilities
Origination & Sourcing
- Proactively build and maintain a robust pipeline of direct investment opportunities and advisory mandates through outreach to corporates, sovereigns, financial sponsors, and investment banks.
- Generate proprietary deal flow across high-yield private debt, distressed and special situations, litigation claims, and structured credit.
- Source debt advisory mandates in Lantana's target markets, including corporate debt recovery assignments, receivables monetisation, and sovereign or government debt recovery engagements, building on the firm's existing track record in this area.
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Credit Analysis
- Lead comprehensive, bottom-up credit analysis of prospective investments.
- Evaluate business and sovereign credit quality, capital structure dynamics, industry and macroeconomic context, downside scenarios, recovery analysis, and litigation outcomes where relevant.
- Prepare and present investment memoranda and recommendations to senior decision-makers.
Transaction Structuring & Execution
- Drive end-to-end transaction execution, including term sheet negotiation, documentation, coordination of legal counsel and financial advisors, and management of the full due diligence process through to closing.
- Structure solutions across the capital structure, including senior and subordinated debt, mezzanine, convertible instruments, warrants, and litigation-linked instruments.
Portfolio Management
- Actively monitor existing investments, assessing financial and operational performance, covenant compliance, amendments, and early identification of risk or value-creation opportunities.
- Engage constructively with portfolio companies, co-investors, and counterparties to protect and enhance investment value.
Market Intelligence & Positioning
- Maintain current awareness of leveraged finance and credit market dynamics, distressed cycles, sovereign credit developments, sector trends, and the competitive landscape.
- Apply this intelligence to refine origination strategy and relative value assessments across Lantana's target universe.
Compensation Structure
This is a partnership-style mandate, not a salaried position. No base salary or draw. Compensation is structured as a percentage share of net income generated from transactions and advisory mandates the individual originates or leads, with no cap on upside. Where an individual contributes relationships, sector expertise, or specialist knowledge that materially advances a mandate led by another team member, that contribution is also compensated on a proportionate basis.
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This structure is designed for professionals who want their contributions measured and rewarded directly in proportion to the value they create, whether through the mandates they lead or the expertise they bring to the team's execution.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in leveraged finance, high yield origination, distressed debt, special situations investing, restructuring advisory, sovereign credit, or corporate debt recovery, gained at a leading investment bank, alternative asset manager, or credit-focused fund.
- Proven, attributable ability to independently source, structure, and execute private credit transactions and advisory mandates, including stressed and distressed situations, with deep familiarity with credit documentation, capital structure mechanics, and out-of-court and formal restructuring processes.
- Experience with litigation- or arbitration-linked credit structures, sovereign debt recovery, or corporate debt recovery mandates is a meaningful differentiator.
- Strong financial modelling capabilities, including LBO, DCF, waterfall, and recovery analysis.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate a clear, concise investment thesis and risk assessment to internal and external stakeholders.
- FCA approval, or the equivalent certification in the candidate's home jurisdiction, is required.
- Self-motivated and entrepreneurial in disposition, thriving in a fast-moving, collegiate environment and demonstrating intellectual curiosity, creative problem-solving, and sound commercial judgment.
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