Ankur Keswani, former Head of Corporate Credit at Serengeti Asset Management, is a seasoned credit investor and portfolio manager with over twenty years of experience in high yield and distressed credit, special situations, bankruptcy and restructurings, and post-reorganization equity investing. Her expertise spans risk and portfolio management, credit research and trading, performing and non-performing debt, leveraged loans, corporate valuation, credit analysis, illiquid securities, and leveraged buyouts, as well as board of directors and officers’ duties.
Ms. Keswani currently serves on the Board of Directors of Kennedy Lewis Capital Company (KLCC), a publicly listed business development company (BDC) focused on senior secured lending to U.S. middle-market companies. She is a member of both the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee, and advises the board on issues including credit markets, portfolio management, and risk oversight.
From 2012 to 2020, Ms. Keswani served as Head of Corporate Credit at Serengeti Asset Management, where she managed over $1 billion in assets across stressed and distressed credit, special situations, and post-bankruptcy equities. She was a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and Risk Committee, leading numerous restructurings, liquidations, and post-reorganization investments. Under her leadership, Serengeti’s corporate credit portfolio outperformed the distressed market by approximately 550 basis points since inception.
Ms. Keswani joined Serengeti in 2008 as a Senior Managing Director following eight years at Goldman Sachs, where she held senior roles in both trading and research. From 2004 to 2007, she was a Vice President in High Yield and Distressed Trading, making markets in bonds and credit default swaps across healthcare, telecom, media, utilities, and chemicals. Between 1999 and 2004, she was a senior analyst on Goldman Sachs’ High Yield and Distressed Research team, ultimately leading the healthcare vertical and earning Institutional Investor rankings in 2003 and 2004.
In 2017, Ms. Keswani was recognized among The Hedge Fund Journal’s Top 50 Women in Hedge Funds. She received her B.A. with Honors in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford. Ms. Keswani has been involved in several nonprofit boards, including West Side Montessori School, WomanKind, and the American Friends of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University.
EXPERTISE
Portfolio and Risk Management
High Yield and Distressed Debt Research and Trading
Special Situations Investing
Performing and Non-performing Leveraged Loans
Credit Analysis/Corporate Valuation
Bankruptcy and Restructurings
Leveraged Buyouts
Illiquid Securities
EDUCATION
University of Oxford
B.A. with Honors - Philosophy, Politics and Economics
WORK HISTORY
SEDA Experts
Managing Director
2025-Current
Kennedy Lewis Capital Company
Board Member
2022-Current
Serengeti Asset Management
Head of Corporate Credit
Senior Managing Director
2008-2020
Goldman Sachs
High Yield and Distressed Trader
High Yield Healthcare Research
1999-2008
High-Yield and Distressed Debt Expert Witness
Contact
Ankur Keswani
1185 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
+1 646-626-4555


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