Samuel Panke

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Biography

Mr. Samuel Panke serves as Managing Director at LongWater Opportunities. He has over 13 years of credit experience and was most recently at RGA on the Private Debt & Equity team where he was a Managing Director and member of the Private Debt and Equity Investment Committee. He was responsible for originating, evaluating, and structuring direct lending (unitranche, second lien, mezzanine) and equity co-investment opportunities as well as fund investments. Prior to RGA, He was a Vice President in the Syndicated & Leveraged Finance group at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey in Atlanta, where he had significant experience structuring and executing a broad range of debt capital markets transactions, including leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, across a diverse set of industries. While at SunTrust, He was responsible for over $10B raised, underwritten, and structured across syndicated loans (bank and Term Loan B) and High Yield Bond mandates. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Vanderbilt University with minors in English and Financial Economics. He also studied at the London School of Economics in 2008 with a focus on Intermediate Micro- and Macroeconomics