Bhavin Patel is Partner, Credit at Apollo. Since joining in 2008, Bhavin has been Apollo’s senior trader in London playing an integral role in sourcing assets for all of Apollo’s European CLOs since their inception in 2011. Previously, Bhavin was a trader at Morgan Stanley in London trading high yield bonds, loans, credit default swaps (CDS) and loan CDS (LCDS). Before that, he traded high yield bonds and CDS for the European Credit team at Barclays Capital in London.

Bhavin graduated from Kings College London (University of London) with a BSc (Hons). He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst holder (CFA) from the CFA Institute.