Former KKR credit head Kapil Singhal joins True North's debt business

Singhal joined KKR in October 2019. He used to look after the Edelweiss Special Opportunities Fund before joining KKR India Financial Services

Kapil Singhal, former managing director  and India Credit head at KKR & Co, has joined private equity firm True North as managing partner of its new credit business.

Singhal quit KKR late last year. He was leading KKR 's non banking finance arm KKR India Financial Services since February last year.  He succeeded B V Krishnan, who quit KKR's credit arm in 2019.

"In his (Singhal's) partnership with True North,  he will lead the efforts in establishing a best in class credit platform," True North said in a LinkedIn post.

Singhal joined KKR in October 2019. He used to look after the Edelweiss