About
A private, independent
investment firm.
YMC Capital specializes in bespoke mandates, managed accounts and ring-fenced strategies. We work with qualified investors, family offices and fund sponsors on positions that require control, on capital that needs a home, and on strategies where the foremost emphasis is the preservation of capital.
Infrastructure
The institutional stack.
The firm is small by design. The stack is not. Regulatory structure, legal counsel, administration, audit and custody all sit at the same level as the funds we used to work with on the other side of the table.
This infrastructure is our precondition for serious conversation with a family office. It is also the reason mandates, segregated portfolios, and managed accounts all sit on the same rails — one governance standard across everything we run.
Investment Manager
YMC Capital Limited
A British Virgin Islands Business Company and an Approved Manager under the BVI Securities and Investment Business Act. The BVI Approved Manager regime is designed for managers of professional-investor funds with institutional-grade governance and FSC oversight.
Fund Platform
Nodal SPC
A Cayman Islands Segregated Portfolio Company regulated by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) as a registered Mutual Fund. Strategies launch as segregated portfolios under Nodal SPC, each legally ring-fenced from the others.
Service Providers
Institutional stack
Tier-1 Cayman and BVI legal counsel. Independent third-party fund administration for NAV calculation, AML/KYC, and investor services. Independent annual audit. Specific counterparties disclosed under mutual NDA.
Footprint
Cayman · BVI
Regulated entities in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands. Mandates taken globally where our counsel can act — primarily Commonwealth jurisdictions, the United States via local counsel, and selective European markets.
Background
How we got here.
YMC Capital Limited was founded to do two things. First, run bespoke mandates on positions that have gone wrong — legacy LPs, defaulted credit, minority stakes nobody else will touch. Second, build a regulated fund platform for strategies that meet our own discipline: capital preservation, structural clarity, explicit downside.
Nodal SPC launched in 2024 as the regulated framework for our fund strategies. Strategies are structured under it and stand up when a mandate calls for one. Active bespoke mandates run alongside.
Moe Ibrahim started at Lazard in 1996 and joined the firm’s distressed debt trading group soon after. He founded the firm’s Asian debt trading operation in 1999 and was promoted to its youngest VP at the time. He went on to build an Asian distressed debt fund to roughly US$500 million in AUM and raised over US$1 billion in client capital across his fund-management career at an average net return of 16%.
Industry recognition over his career includes Best Asian Distressed Debt Fund (2004), Best Singapore Hedge Fund (2004), Best Distressed Fund (2006), Top 20 Rising Hedge Fund Stars in Institutional Investor (2007), Singapore’s Spirit of Enterprise (2008), Executive of the Year (2015, 2019), and Outstanding General Manager (2017), among others.
The posture is the same today. When we take a mandate, we stay with it until it is resolved — the kind of work most firms walk away from is the kind we built YMC to take on.
Work with us.
If you hold a position that has gone wrong, or you are a sponsor who needs a regulated vehicle without the cost of building one, the first step is a short confidential form.