Owning the opportunity ahead
Our credit platform brings together Brookfield’s longstanding owner-operator heritage and Oaktree’s multi-decade leadership in alternative credit to create a powerful platform that combines scale, expertise and vision. Enhanced by a number of specialist credit managers, we provide solutions across opportunistic, asset-based lending, and corporate performing credit to institutions, financial advisors and individuals.
Assets under management
Professionals
Sponsor relationships
Years of experience
Delivering credit differently
Global scale
Our global reach and long-standing relationships enable access to differentiated opportunities, efficient execution, and long-term partnerships with borrowers.
Broad and flexible solutions
Our integrated platform delivers cross-asset solutions tailored to clients’ return, duration, and liquidity needs.
Value-add partnerships
We partner with high-quality, specialized credit managers and originators, enhancing our platform to unlock hard-to-access opportunities at scale.
Our capabilities
Opportunistic credit
Creating value at every stage of the investment process
Our flagship Opportunistic Credit platform combines its scale with deep distressed debt and restructuring expertise to pursue compelling opportunities globally across public and private markets.
- Distressed Liquid Credit
- Rescue Financing
- DIP Financing
- Exit Financing
- Loan Portfolios
- Platform Investments
- Capital Solutions for Stressed Borrowers
Real asset credit
Collaborating with our global real estate team and leveraging our global infrastructure footprint
- Real Estate Credit: We capitalize on Brookfield’s global real estate ecosystem and longstanding expertise as an owner-operator to access and inform differentiated, scalable real estate credit opportunities.
- Commercial Mortgages, Residential Mortgages, Homebuilder Solutions, Special Opportunities
- Infrastructure Credit: We target markets globally where Brookfield has built an on-the-ground presence, with a focus on sectors where we have extensive operating expertise, allowing us to originate proprietary, high-grade infrastructure debt transactions.
- Infrastructure and Renewable Energy, Opco and Holdco Lending, Structured Preferred Equity, Renewables Development Financing
Asset-backed finance
Building a diversified credit portfolio backed by pools of cash-flowing contractual assets and specialist expertise
Through our strategic investments in specialty managers and asset origination platforms, we gain unique access to asset-based investment opportunities.
- Specialty Finance: Equipment, Transportation/Aviation, Consumer/SME
- Residential Non-QM
- Royalties
- Fund Finance
- Digital Infrastructure Leases
Corporate performing credit
A credit platform focused on risk control, consistency and selectivity
We invest across increasingly interconnected private and liquid credit markets, offering a variety of flexible and scalable investment opportunities.
- Private: Structured Investment Grade, U.S. and European First Lien Direct Lending, Non-Sponsor Lending, Sector-Specific Lending, Junior Debt and CLOs
- Liquid: High Yield, Senior Loans, Investment Grade, Convertible Bonds, Structured Credit and Emerging Markets Debt
Our strategic partners
LCM Partners
In 2018, Brookfield acquired a minority stake in LCM Partners, a leader in European consumer and SME loan markets. LCM’s flagship strategy purchases performing, re-performing and non-performing consumer and SME loans from banks and credit originators.
Primary Wave
In 2022, Brookfield acquired a significant minority stake in Primary Wave, a leading music rights investor. The partnership gives Brookfield clients access to investment opportunities with some of the world’s most legendary names in music.
Pinegrove
In 2023, Brookfield and Sequoia Heritage partnered together and founded Pinegrove Venture Partners, a venture capital platform designed to offer solutions for investors, managers, and founders in the venture capital ecosystem. The firm’s expertise spans venture secondaries, venture fund of funds, and venture credit.
Castlelake
In 2024, Brookfield acquired a majority stake in Castlelake, a private credit investor specializing in asset based, aviation, and specialty finance. The deal brought Castlelake’s asset-based investment capabilities into the Brookfield ecosystem.
Angel Oak
In 2025, Brookfield acquired a majority stake in Angel Oak, a mortgage and consumer credit manager. This will add a vertically integrated origination platform to the Brookfield ecosystem and expand our footprint in the fast-growing U.S. mortgage credit market.
17Capital
Brookfield benefits from Oaktree’s 2022 strategic partnership with 17Capital, a leader in net-asset-value (NAV) finance.
