Nicholas Heilbut

Nicholas Heilbut is a Managing Director in Future Standard’s Global Credit business. He serves as Portfolio Manager and Director of Research for FS Credit Income Fund, FS Tactical Opportunities Fund, FS Credit Opportunities Corp. and FS Specialty Lending Fund.

Mr. Heilbut brings extensive experience across the credit spectrum,including private lending and opportunistic credit. Prior to joining Future Standard, he was a Managing Director at DW Partners, where he focused on credit investing. Before that, he served as Head of Research for Magnetar’s Event Credit business and the Magnetar Credit Opportunities Fund and was a member of the Event-Driven Investment Committee.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Heilbut worked at Serengeti Asset Management, where he was responsible for investments in financial institutions, health care, media and sovereign debt. He joined Serengeti from Goldman Sachs, where he was a Vice President in the Special Situations Group Multi-Strategy Investing business, investing across public and private corporate credit and equities, drug royalties and distressed financial assets.

He began his career as an Associate in Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette’s Mortgage Department.

Mr. Heilbut holds a BA in History, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Columbia Business School.