Senior Credit

Phillip Croff

Managing Director, Senior Credit

Phillip is a member of the senior credit team and the underwriting and portfolio management group, with the primary responsibility of managing stressed accounts. Prior to joining the firm, he was a vice president at Antares Capital (and its predecessors), where he divided his work over 15 years between underwriting cash flow transactions and managing workout accounts for middle market leveraged loans to private equity-owned companies.

  • Education: B.A., Finance and Social Relations, Michigan State University; M.B.A., Finance, Northwestern University–Kellogg School of Management
  • Joined the company: 2021
  • Began career: 2005

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Our private credit business is now Manulife | Comvest Credit Partners, offering creative and flexible private credit solutions to both sponsored and non-sponsored middle-market companies, backed by Manulife’s global scale and Comvest’s proven leadership.

Private Equity

Our private equity platform continues as Comvest Private Equity, an independent firm focused on control investments in middle-market companies, partnering with founders and management teams to build businesses for lasting growth.

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