Drumlin Capital Management, LLC is a specialty finance platform focused on opportunities linked to the physical commodity markets. Drumlin provides alternative capital and related advisory services to producers, processors, merchants, and consumers of raw materials globally.
We were founded in 2016 and are based in Westport, CT.
Trade Finance Direct Lending
Drumlin offers bespoke structured trade financing for market participants across the metals & mining, energy, and agricultural commodity sectors. Working closely with our clients, we develop creative funding solutions that are more flexible than the trade finance products arranged by traditional banks. Our financing solutions span all stages of the commodity lifecycle, from production to transit to post-sale.
Our direct lending strategy aims to mitigate downside risk by structuring products that are secured by trade flows and inventories of highly liquid, fungible goods, and which benefit from significant external credit enhancements. Historically, these self-liquidating, asset-backed loans have generated attractive risk-adjusted returns with low default rates, high recoveries, short duration, low volatility, and virtually zero correlation to other asset classes.
Carbon Credits
Drumlin applies tools and techniques developed for financing physical commodities to rapidly emerging and often intangible commodity assets, including voluntary carbon emission credits. Partnering with a leading environmental consultant and a large charitable foundation, we aim to provide liquidity and risk transference to a nascent industry that is critically important for achieving global climate goals. The projects we finance are selected not only with a focus on mitigating the effects of climate change, but also on achieving tangible ecological and socioeconomic sustainability objectives.
ADVISORY SERVICES
Drumlin leverages expertise in physical trading, asset management, commercial law, logistics, and insurance to serve as a trusted advisor to a wide range of commodity market participants. We have provided corporate strategy and operational consulting services to a diverse, international client base, ranging from startup trading houses to publicly listed financial institutions.
OPPORTUNISTIC INVESTING
Through affiliated funds, including those managed by Nebari Holdings, and a broad network of co-investors, Drumlin has the capability to pursue a broad array of commodity-related opportunities, including project financing, royalties, streams, convertible debt, equity, and other investments.
Meet Our Team
Our team has extensive experience originating, underwriting, and administering over $1 billion in financial and physical commodity transactions at leading international institutions.
Prior to co-founding Drumlin, Colin was with Gerald Metals, where he led structured trade finance efforts to support the firm’s physical trading platform. While at Gerald, Colin funded transactions with a diverse set of metals producers totaling hundreds of millions of dollars in aggregate. Prior to joining Gerald, Colin worked in copper, zinc, and lead concentrates trading for Glencore International and in asset management for Compass Group Management. Colin is a member of the advisory board of the Nebari Natural Resources Credit Fund.
Colin holds an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management, a J.D. from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and a B.S.B.A. from Georgetown University.
Jonathan Man
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Prior to co-founding Drumlin, Jonathan was an attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he worked with public and private companies and PE/VC funds in cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, and minority investments ranging in size from less than $1 million to over $6 billion, and related corporate counseling. Prior to joining Kirkland, Jonathan developed distribution channels and partners throughout Asia for Apeiron, an insurance general agency, and was co-founder of Pulmatrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: PULM).
Jonathan holds an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management, a J.D. from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and an A.B. from Harvard University.
Patrick Michalowski
Vice President
Patrick joined Drumlin as a Vice President in 2021. Prior to joining Drumlin, Patrick was an investment associate at Blackstone's Hedge Fund Solutions group. Patrick was a member of the Global Markets investment team which focused on sourcing, evaluating and underwriting commodity, macro and emerging market investment strategies and co-investment opportunities. At Blackstone, Patrick funded over $1 billion of investment opportunities. Before joining Blackstone in 2011, Patrick worked at UBP Asset Management and began his career at HSBC.
Patrick received a B.B.A. in Finance and Investments from Baruch College.
