James Kim

James oversees the leveraged finance research team and its daily investment process for Nuveen’s global fixed income team and is head of distressed investments, leading workouts and opportunistic investing for the leveraged finance platform.

Previously, James served as the co-head of research at Nuveen affiliate Symphony Asset Management, leading the firm’s research team, daily investment process and opportunistic investments across its various mandates. Prior to this, he was a distressed generalist and an industry analyst responsible for a number of different industries, including energy, power, metals & mining and chemicals, providing long and short ideas across the capital structure. Prior to joining the firm, James was an associate at Greywolf Capital in its special situations group and an analyst at Watershed Asset Management. He began his career at Goldman Sachs, as an investment banking analyst both in the Strategy Group and Energy & Power Group.

James graduated with a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.