Angel Island Capital has appointed an experienced investment firm in-house lawyer as its new general counsel.

The San Francisco-based alternative investment adviser and credit manager announced Nicole Macarchuk as its chief operating officer and general counsel in a press release Thursday. AIC also appointed a new chief financial officer, Robert Ryan.

The two hires complete the leadership team for AIC, a specialty finance portfolio company of private equity firm Golden Gate Capital.

“We are excited to welcome Nicole and Bob, both of whom bring extensive experience overseeing asset management teams and working with sophisticated institutional investors, to AIC. Their combined years of experience working across the credit markets will complement our talented group of investment professionals,” Dev Gopalan, AIC's CEO, said in a press release. “I am confident that we have assembled a management team uniquely qualified to support and grow the business as well as develop deep, partnership-based relationships with our clients.”

Macarchuk joins AIC from global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., where she began serving as managing director and general counsel of public markets in 2010. She also served as managing director and general counsel of KKR Credit Advisors in the U.S. and KKR Financial Holdings LLC.

Prior to working at KKR, Macarchuk held another in-house leadership role as co-general counsel of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, a global alternative asset management firm. She was responsible for supporting the firm's private equity, energy and transactional business groups and initiatives and the U.S. public distressed debt, structured products and public equity business units.

Macarchuk was counsel at O'Melveny & Myers and O'Sullivan Graev & Karabell before moving in-house. She focused on private equity transactions and fund formation. Her legal career started at White & Case in 1993, where she focused on banking and corporate credit transactions as an associate.

She earned her JD, cum laude, at Fordham University Law School.

“AIC has undergone an extraordinarily positive evolution over the last few years toward becoming a leading investment management firm. The additions of Nicole and Bob reinforce the depth, quality and expertise of AIC's leadership team,” said Rob Little, a managing director of Golden Gate Capital, in the press release. “They will help build upon AIC's success to date and support the Company as it executes its strategy. We believe AIC is uniquely situated in today's complex and evolving credit market.”