Antares Capital announced that it has hired Vivek Mathew as managing director, head of Structured Products. Mathew will join Antares in the second quarter of 2016.

“We’re excited to have Vivek join us as we look to diversify our capital structure and maximize future market opportunities,” said Barry Giarraputo, chief financial officer of Antares Capital. “Vivek’s experience in working with investors and ratings agencies will be important as our business considers the use of CLOs or other structured products as part of our holistic funding and liquidity profile.”

Mathew, based in New York, is a well-regarded leader in the structured credit space. Most recently, he served as managing director, head of Global Primary CLO Business at J.P. Morgan. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2005, Mathew was vice president, Structured Finance at Deutsche Bank.

Antares Capital is the leading provider of financing solutions for middle-market, private equity-backed transactions with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Norwalk (Connecticut) and Toronto. Antares has facilitated more than $120 billion in financing over the past five years, and was named 2014 lender of the Year by Mergers & Acquisitions. Antares also was recognized by Private Debt Investor and Private Equity International as 2013 Lender of the Year, North America and Mid-Cap Lender of the Year, North America, respectively.