Former GSO exec to lead tactical opportunities at Kennedy Lewis

New York-based opportunistic credit manager Kennedy Lewis Investment Management has hired J. Richard “Dik” Blewitt as partner and its head of tactical opportunities. Blewitt joins from Blackstone’s credit division GSO Capital Partners, where he was a managing director focused on structured finance and credit investments. While at Blackstone, he was a senior portfolio manager for Carador Income Fund as well as a member of the global structured credit investment committee for the firm’s liquid credit business. “Dik and I worked directly together for many years at GSO, and I am thrilled that Kennedy Lewis will benefit from his unparalleled structured finance and investing expertise, especially as we seek to take advantage of the emerging opportunity set in today’s market,” said Darren Richman, co-founder of Kennedy Lewis. Last year, Kennedy Lewis added another GSO executive in hiring Doug Logigian as a partner and president. He was a senior managing director at Blackstone and prior to joining Kennedy Lewis was the head of capital markets and a portfolio manager for GSO Capital Partners. Richman founded the firm with David Chene in 2017. The firm invests in event-driven situations in which a catalyst may unlock value. The strategy primarily focuses on the stressed and distressed segments of the corporate and structured credit markets in North America and Europe. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2014, Blewitt was a managing director and co-head of the securitized asset team at Blackrock, as well as the partner in charge of securitization and insurance products for the R3 Capital Hedge Fund. Prior to Blackrock acquiring R3 in 2009, Blewitt was formerly the head of securitization at Lehman Brothers Global Principal Strategies.

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