Carlyle Hires Meagher, Seminario for Direct Lending Team

Carlyle Group Inc. made two senior hires in an effort to boost its direct lending business: Michael Meagher who will join as partner and head of direct lending origination and JP Seminario who is joining as managing director, according to a memo seen by Bloomberg.

Meagher was most recently at Golub Capital where he was a managing director, according to his LinkedIn profile. Before that, he was a director in the financial sponsors group at Deutsche Bank AG.

Seminario will also focus on origination, the memo shows. He was previously a managing director at Silver Point Capital and ...