Venture debt / Private credit · SEBI registry
India Special Situations Trust
Debt / Venture debt · Private credit / Debt · Mumbai
At a glance
- Stage focus
- Debt / Venture debt
- Primary sector
- Private credit / Debt
- City
- Mumbai
- HQ / office
- Bandra Kurla Complex (ONE BKC), Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Fund registered
- 2018
- Corpus (as reported)
- SSG Capital Holdings ~US$6.2bn AUM across private credit & special situations (Sep 2019, pre-Ares acquisition)
- Website
- ssgadvisors.in
About
India Special Situations Trust is managed by SSG Advisors (India) Pvt Ltd, the India arm of Hong Kong-based SSG Capital Holdings — an Asia-Pacific private credit and special-situations manager. Ares Management acquired a majority interest in 2020 and the platform now operates as Ares SSG.
Investment focus
Pan-Asia private credit, special situations / distressed debt and structured-equity (not startup VC)
SEBI registration
SEBI AIF Category II — reported as “Cat II”
- IN/AIF2/18-19/0561
SIDBI Fund of Funds
None found
Team & organisation
Category II AIF (credit / special situations / distressed). Investment manager: SSG Advisors LLP (part of Ares SSG / Ares Management Asia (India) Pvt Ltd). Trust-based AIF; HQ One BKC, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East, Mumbai. Own site ssgadvisors.in returned TLS certificate errors and could not be verified directly.
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About this record
- ⚑ foreign-HQ (Hong Kong / Ares, US-listed parent); private credit / special-situations / distressed-debt fund (Cat II), not startup VC
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Sources: https://indialei.in/detailed-information/29700500/335800V9MW7VHZUK4H23/india-special-situations-trust/; https://www.aresmgmt.com/our-business/strategic-initiatives/ares-ssg