Nate Kirk, CFA

Everside is an independently owned investment firm, based in New York, focused on the middle and lower-middle market. It searches diligently for great partnerships with investors and the people and institutions with whom it invests. The firm provides partners with access to the US middle and lower-middle market, diversified by geography and industry. Everside’s approach is based on the cooperation and trust that derives from (i) partnering with geographically focused top performing fund managers and (ii) by having its own highly efficient and scalable origination platform along with a rigorous underwriting and monitoring process executed by an experienced team.

Investment focus: Stressed, distressed, special situations, and restructurings; flexible credit mandate allows team to invest in loans, bonds, converts, preferreds, and equities Sector focus: Generalist research analyst covering chemicals, consumer, energy, foods & beverage, healthcare, home construction, media, metals & mining and packaging sectors

Sector focus: Healthcare Companies covered: >50 • Covered high yield issuers in the Healthcare sector: constructed models to analyze and forecast earnings; wrote and published reports for external investors analyzing strengths and weaknesses of companies in coverage universe, provided guidance on new issues • Liaised with internal traders, assisting in determining proper pricing for market-making activities, and advised on proprietary trading opportunities in high yield credit • Designed procedures for and oversaw executionof team tasks including production of daily high yield report delivered to sales trading and research staff

• Traded USD-denominated debt for Mexico, Pemex, EMBI+, and options in Eastern Europe (Turkey and Russia) which required analysis for hedging out market risk; worked closely with sales team in NY and London to move axes on a daily basis • Traded repos on USD-denominated debt which required understanding the intricacies of the term structure of rates and the importance of the bank’s balance sheet; worked with clients to enhance the return on their positions • Selected for special project to spend 3 months in London working on the J.P. Morgan Principal Finance team, performing due diligence, modeling, and bidding on portfolios of non-performing loans

• Focus on Focus on Econometrics, Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Development • Stroke of winning Blue Boat in the 150th Cambridge-Oxford Race

* Coursework included: Financial Theory, Financial Accounting, Econometrics, Statistics * Yale Varsity Heavyweight Crew, Captain; Attended by invitation U.S. National Team Selection Camp

America House, Sterns