Mike Chirillo

Mike Chirillo is a Senior Managing Director at Antares Capital based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. In this senior leadership position, he specializes in middle-market lending and sponsor finance within the broader private credit sector. Prior to assuming his current title, he served as a Managing Director at the firm for several years before its major corporate ownership transition. Specifically, he was a key executive during the period when Antares Capital was acquired by GE Global Sponsor Finance, a prominent division of GE Finance, in a strategic transaction reportedly valued at over $1 billion. He currently operates alongside other senior leaders, including Timothy Lyne, to manage the firm's extensive corporate lending portfolio and direct capital deployment. Chirillo maintains a primary focus on structuring middle-market debt facilities and executing sponsor-backed financial transactions for institutional private equity clients.