Our Strategies
We invest across a company’s capital structure and investment stages, operating complementary investment groups in private equity, venture capital, infrastructure assets, private debt, and real estate debt.
Private Debt
The Nicola Wealth Private Debt team provides an institutional quality private credit portfolio for the clients of Nicola Wealth in an open-ended evergreen fund structure. We take a multi-strategy approach to investing in private credit across direct lending, co-investments, and fund investments. Our experienced direct lending team provides senior, unitranche, and mezzanine debt financing to middle market companies on a bilateral or syndicated basis.
$2.6B
in assets under management (AUM)
$1.0B
capital deployed (TTM)
9%
in funds
91%
in directs (includes co-investments, co-leads, etc.)
17
fund investments
138
directs/co-investments
Dollars are in Canadian. Stats as of March 31, 2026.
What We Bring
- Long-term PartnersOur evergreen fund model means we can form long term relationships with our borrowers and we are never forced to recycle capital between fund vintages.
- Expertise, Flexibility, and ExecutionOur private debt deal team is experienced in originating, structuring, executing and managing commercial and corporate loans. We work with borrowers to find flexible solutions often unavailable from traditional lenders. An efficient investment process and certainty of execution are at the core of our value proposition.
- Scale and ReputationNicola Wealth was founded in 1994 and manages over $16 billion of assets on behalf of our valued clients. Our wealth management platform provides a historically stable and growing source of capital that allows our fund to invest at scale over the long term.
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December 2021
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March 2026
Refinancing
Holdco Loan
February 2026
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February 2026
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January 2026
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December 2023
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Refinancing
Incremental Senior Credit Facilities
October 2023
Acquisition Financing
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July 2023
MBO Refinancing
Subordinated Term Loan
June 2022
Acquisition Financing
Senior Credit Facilities
July 2021
Meet Our Investment Team
Jurgen van Vuuren
Senior Director & Head, Private Debt
Stacey Mouadeb
Senior Director, Private Debt
Tim Xu
Principal, Private Debt
Eduardo Angus
Principal, Private Debt
Matt Choi
Principal, Private Debt
Casey Koch
Associate, Private Debt
Hamish Barley
Associate, Private Debt
Ranjodh Gill
Senior Analyst, Private Debt
James Foo
Analyst, Private Debt
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