Associate – Asset Backed Finance

Our Company

Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with more than $220 billion in assets under management. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, equity, and real estate. The firm has more than 1,400 employees and offices in more than 25 cities worldwide.

We are committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.

Oaktree Asset Backed Finance (“ABF”) is a strategy which invests in pools of contractual assets, such as loans, leases, receivables, mortgages and licensing agreements, which may or may not reference property or other hard assets. Asset categories include corporate / commercial, consumer, real estate, transportation, equipment, infrastructure, energy, intellectual property and other esoteric types.

On behalf of ABF funds and clients, Oaktree

• Purchases, or commits to purchase, assets, with or without leverage
• Lends, or commits to lend, secured by assets, in a senior or mezzanine position
• Insures, or provides capital relief against, assets
• Provides essential capital to a business primarily engaged in the origination and servicing of assets

Oaktree has significant experience successfully investing client capital in ABF opportunities as a sub-allocation to various funds and strategies, Oaktree ABF represents Oaktree’s client offering dedicated to ABF. Based on the expanding ABF opportunity set and client demand both in unrated ABF and formally rated investment grade ABF (IG ABF), Oaktree ABF is expected to grow significantly. Oaktree judges the ABF Strategy’s success and value by outcomes delivered to clients, consistent with or exceeding expectations, over the medium and long term.

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The ABF Associate will specifically support senior ABF investment professionals in the LA and New York offices, and will need to be based in LA. They will contribute to all phases of the investment process, from sourcing, through decision points, to investment realization.

• Recognizing that Oaktree sources opportunities and leads through a variety of internal and external channels, the ABF Associate will follow up on introductions and inquiries of potential relevance to the ABF strategy.
• Collect, evaluate, organize and summarize initial information which accompanies an ABF opportunity such as teasers, pitch decks, meetings or emails.
• Participate in calls, virtual meetings and in-person meetings with asset originators, borrowers, sellers and their respective advisors, taking careful notes.
• For those opportunities determined to be potentially attractive for Oaktree funds and clients, lead or participate in diligence, negotiation of terms and documentation, building models and preparing investment memoranda for consideration by the ABF investment committee.
• Gain familiarity with Oaktree’s various pools of capital available for ABF investments, including the constraints imposed by fund investment guidelines, capital considerations, regulators and Oaktree’s internal policies and procedures.
• Present information about investments, both actual and considered, to partners such as clients, prospects, financing providers and co-investors. Participate in monitoring, surveillance and valuation of existing investments.
• Train and supervise associates and analysts on the ABF team.
• Perform other tasks as required.

• 2-5+ years relevant experience within asset finance or…