Nicole Waibel

Managing Director at Crescent Credit Europe

Panellist

Nicole Waibel is a Managing Director at Crescent Capital and has been working in European Private Debt for 25 years. She joined Crescent in 2013 from Indigo Capital, a European specialist lending fund, where she was a Partner responsible for sourcing and leading debt and related equity investments in Germany and Switzerland, as well as executing deals in France and Central and Eastern Europe. She previously worked for BNP Paribas in Media & Telecom finance in Paris and Frankfurt. Nicole began her career at Arthur Andersen in transaction support services in Frankfurt. Nicole received an MA in Economics from Münster University and Erasmus University Rotterdam

Crescent is a global credit investment manager with approximately $50 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2025. For over 30 years, the firm has focused on non-investment grade credit through strategies that invest in marketable and privately originated debt securities including senior bank loans, high yield bonds, as well as private senior, unitranche and junior debt securities. Crescent is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, London and Frankfurt with over 235+ employees globally. Crescent is a part of SLC Management, the institutional alternatives and traditional asset management business of Sun Life. For more information about Crescent, visit www.crescentcap.com.