Laxmi Capital Management: Team

Mihir Patel

Managing Member

Institutional credit trading professional with over 20 years working in fixed income and credit trading.

Interned on the Interest Rate Products Trading Desk at Goldman Sachs (2004)
Traded Cash and CDS on the IG Credit Trading Desk at Goldman Sachs (2005-2007)
Traded HY and Leveraged Loan Credit Indices/Tranches on the Structured Credit Exotics Trading Desk at Merrill Lynch (2007-2009)
Headed Corporate Bond Trading/Market-Making desks at Odeon Capital Group (2012-2015) and Auriga USA/NatAlliance Securities (2015-2021)
B.S. in Mathematics and B.A. in Economics from Indiana University College of Arts & Science (2005)
B.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University School of Computing & Informatics (2005)
B.S. in Business Administration (Finance major) from Indiana University Kelley School of Business (2005)

Portfolio Manager

Institutional credit trading professional with over 30 years working in fixed income and credit trading.

HY Corporate Bond Trader (Cash) at Solomon Brothers (1994-2005)
Head of Cash/Credit Default Swap (CDS) Market Making & Proprietary Trading on the HY Credit Trading Desk at Goldman Sachs (2005-2012)
Partner & Portfolio Manager at Peak6 (2012-2015)
Co-Head of Protocol Design & Client Buildout at Trumid (2015-2016)
HY Technology/Media/Telecom (TMT) Cash & CDS Trader at Citigroup (2016-2018)
Head of HY Credit Trading Desk at TD Bank (2019-2022)
Portfolio Manager of $100MM HY Long/Short Credit Fund at Millenium (2022-2024)
B.A. in Marketing from Fairfield University Dolan School of Business (1994)

Portfolio Manager

Institutional credit trading professional with nearly 20 years working in fixed income and credit trading.

FAST Summer Analyst at Bear Sterns (2005-2006)
Analyst at The Blackstone Group (2010)
Distressed & IG Cash & CDS Trader at Goldman Sachs (2010-2014), managing primarily large liquid capital structures both pre- and post-bankruptcy
Co-Head of Protocol Design & Client Buildout at Trumid (2014-2016)
HY & Distressed Cash & CDS Trader at Citigroup (2016-2018), managing large liquid capital structures of primarily fallen angels
HY & Distressed Cash & CDS Trader at Deutsche Bank (2018-2019)
Built out new HY Trading Desk at MUFG (2021-2023)
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2007)
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2009)