Michael Leitner has joined Stonepeak, an alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, as a senior managing director.
Based in the firm’s New York office, Leitner will help lead the continued buildout of Stonepeak’s credit investing capabilities.
Leitner brings more than 21 years of experience in the credit space, which has included building and managing an established multi-strategy credit investment platform that invested billions of dollars of capital on behalf of its clients. He most recently served as co-head of BlackRock’s direct lending and special situations investment practice. Leitner also was a managing partner at Tennenbaum Capital Partners (TCP), a specialist private performing credit and special situations manager, which was acquired by BlackRock in 2018. At TCP, Leitner helped build the firm into a leading strategic financing partner to the broader communication services and infrastructure sector, leading investments i
