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Sam Hollander joined OakNorth’s US debt originations team after working alongside the bank as a co-lender. He shares what drew him in, why the current CRE market is so interesting, and what it takes to help build a direct lending platform from the ground up.
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Sam Hollander joined OakNorth’s US debt originations team after working alongside the bank as a co-lender. He shares what drew him in, why the current CRE market is so interesting, and what it takes to help build a direct lending platform from the ground up.
Dylan Jagjivan went from a 2017 intern to Associate Director of Debt Finance in just three years — and then relocated to New York to help build OakNorth’s US business. He shares what makes the culture, flat structure, and pace here so different.
The US lending market isn’t broken. But it is no longer structured the way it was, and that matters most in the $5–50 million range.Â
If you’re raising $10 million, $25 million, or $40 million to acquire a business, recapitalize, or finance a development, you’re operating in the segment that quietly powers economic growth. And over the past two years, that segment has shifted in ways that are easy to underestimate.Â
In specialty finance and private credit, growth is rarely linear. Markets evolve, structures become more complex, and opportunities move quickly. For firms operating in the lender finance space, having access to capital is important, but having the right capital partner is transformational.
