Our Team

Brent de Jong is a partner at Castlelake, responsible for the firm’s investments in global special situations. Mr. de Jong is also a rotating, voting member of Castlelake’s Investment Review Committee. Mr. de Jong joined the firm in 2016 with more than 18 years of investment experience, having worked on more than 235 investments across nearly 50 countries. Over the course of his career, Mr. de Jong has developed a broad range of expertise in global special situations in a variety of sectors, including: energy, telecom, finance, natural resources, real estate, and transportation.

Prior to Castlelake, Mr. de Jong was the chief executive officer of Zaff Capital LP, a private equity and real estate investment firm specializing in distressed investments within emerging markets. During his time at Zaff, Mr. de Jong also served as an executive board member of RA Holdco, which emerged from the reorganization of Arcapita, a Bahraini investment bank, and was the first sharia compliant bankruptcy in the U.S. Prior to joining Zaff, Mr. de Jong was the lead investment professional with Ashmore Investment Management for special situations and infrastructure investments and served on the firm’s investment committee. During part of his time at Ashmore, Mr. de Jong was seconded to AEI, a $10 billion emerging market energy infrastructure company, and served as the chief executive officer and vice chairman of the board of directors focused on strategy and development. Earlier in his career, Mr. de Jong worked at JPMorgan’s financial institutions group in London and JPMorgan’s structured finance group in New York. Mr. de Jong received his B.A. from Georgetown University in economics. Mr. de Jong currently serves as a board member of several organizations in the investment, mining and non-profit sectors.