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HIGH QUALITY TRAINING IS A RESULT OF REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE:
Leading the IBI training program are 12 seasoned investment bankers who have worked for some of Wall Street's most respected firms, each having between 5 and 20 years of I-Banking and Private Equity or Hedge Fund expertise. Moreover, each of our bankers have, at some point in their careers, been an instrumental part of the training programs and hiring process in the banks they worked for.
The IBI difference is clear: Training with our bankers allows the effective transfer of skills that you can directly apply when seeking to enter the finance industry and add value to the job from day one.
In addition to these trainers, IBI also maintains 3 more investment banking veterans (each with over 10 years of experience) available 7 days a week, to assist you with every facet of your career advancement.
Any of our bankers will personally assist you with resume changes (to reflect our training) as well as reformat, and professionalize your resume as needed, guide you through interview Q & A's, mock interviews, and how to specifically target employers. (We will assist you in sending your resume to numerous firms and guide you through the interview process).
We invite you to call us and find out how, over the years, we have helped numerous individuals advance their careers and secure highly sought after jobs in the finance industry. Our dedication to your success is the most important part of our training program. (Please ask to see our Graduate testimonials).
Below you will find detailed descriptions of our International bankers, their professional experience, and their completed transactions; click "United States" above for information on our US bankers. (Please call to obtain the resume of any of our instructors).
| IBI TORONTO |
ASHISH KOHLI is a seasoned investment banker with over 15 years of transaction experience across all product groups of investment banking and private equity including leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, private placements, IPOs and secondary offerings, high yield debt and restructuring. He also led IB Training programs in all the firms where he worked including leading the global analyst and associate training program at HSBC in NY and London.
Ashish's experience throughout the US and Europe includes his role as a Principal/Director for the Investment Banking Division of ThinkEquity Partners NY/Panmure Gordon UK in the Corporate Finance Group leading transactions across all industries. He was previously a Vice President of Investment Banking in the Execution Group (M&A and capital raising) for HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. in NY where he executed M&A and capital raising transactions in industries such as consumer/retail, real estate and oil and gas.
Prior to HSBC, Ashish was a Senior Associate for the Investment Banking Division of Jefferies & Company as a Generalist and in the Technology and Media Group where he focused on restructuring and recapitalizations, M&A advisory and capital raisings. He advised Samsonite on its recapitalization and the deal was awarded the 2003 U.S. Middle Market Deal of the Year by Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor.
In earlier years Ashish was an Associate in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse First Boston/Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where he worked in the Generalist and Technology Groups, advising and raising capital for companies across a number of different sectors. He also worked with DLJ's private equity group, one of the leading private equity groups on Wall Street.
Ashish earned an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Dean's List). He is also a Chartered Accountant (US CPA).
Selected Transaction Experience:
- Managed a $2.1 billion IPO for Genuity
- Managed a $1.2 billion high yield financing and lead-managed a $825 million convertible stock offering for PSINet
- Managed the $750 million AIM listing of Hirco real estate fund
- Advised Samsonite Corporation on its $600 million recapitalization transaction including $106 million new equity investment by Bain Capital, Ontario Teachers Pension Fund, and Ares Capital. Deal was awarded the 2003 U.S. Middle Market Deal of the Year by Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor
- Advised William Grant & Sons on its potential $400 million acquisition of Svedka vodka in the U.S.
- Represented the ad hoc committee of $380.5 million 13% Senior Notes of Mpower Holding Corporation in its successful restructuring
- Managed a $200 million AIM listing of a close-ended fund focused on renewable energy and environmental services in Asia
- Advised PlayCore on its $200 million sale to Chartwell Investments
- Managed a $160 million SPAC offering for a company focused on acquisition of consumer and business service companies in the U.S.
- Managed a $160 million high yield offering for IMAX corp
- Lead-managed a $132.5 million IPO and a $110.7 million secondary offering for ManTech International Corporation
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| IBI LONDON |
AMOL MAHESHWARI leads the IBI training program in London. Amol is an accomplished finance professional with over 9 years experience as an investment banker and corporate finance executive. He has advised on dozens of companies on a wide range of corporate finance and strategic initiatives with an aggregate value in excess of $ 23 billion. Amol has specific investment banking experience in corporate analysis, public and private equity analysis, equity and debt based transaction identification, risk analysis, initial public offerings, convertible debt issuance and restructuring, corporate mergers & acquisitions, and financial restructuring.
Amol is currently Vice President of Investment Banking Strategies at Morgan Stanley in London, where his focus is to analyze company performance and interpret investor expectations built into market valuation. During his tenure at Morgan Stanley, Amol has advised investment banking clients on strategic finance initiatives. He has worked across industries in Europe with a focus on Technology, Healthcare and Industrial companies to value and analyze more than 75 companies with their market values ranging from $ 250 million to $ 100 billion.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in London, Amol was a Vice President in the ModelWare Group at Morgan Stanley in Mumbai, India where he and his team provided investment analytics to internal and external clients. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Amol was a corporate banker in HSBC handling credit analysis and business development. He also managed several strategic process management initiatives and is an award winning Six Sigma Blackbelt.
Amol is a CFA Charter Holder. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore where he was at the top of the class in Corporate Valuation and among the top 5% in Statistics.
Selected Transaction Experience:
- Capital requirement analysis to identify and market the $ 1.7 billion convertible debt offering for Anglo American and the € 1 billion convertible debt offering for Alcatel Lucent
- Valuation analysis to recommend share buyback programs - € 2 billion program for Alstom, € 500 million program for Legrand, € 2 billion program for Vinci and € 500 million program for Cap Gemini
- Financial modeling and screening to identify debt restructuring targets - Identified targets where transactions were completed included Ferrovial’s € 3.3 billion debt restructuring and the € 4.4 billion capital restructuring and secondary offering of Heidelberg Cement
- Advised on National Express for CVC’s £ 560 million bid and the subsequent £ 365 million rights issue
- Advised on sale or possible IPO of Pets at Home which was eventually bid for by KKR at £ 960 million
- Advised Hibernian Investment Management on ETF investments of $ 172 million
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JESÚS PUY is a seasoned investment banker with over 18 years of transaction experience in Europe and the Americas. He has structured more than 3.3 billion € of debt in a wide array of complex financial products such as wrapped debt, project finance, acquisition finance, future flow securitizations and asset based finance. The international press has granted the “deal of the year” award, in four occasions, to transactions where he has been actively involved.
Jesús’ experience includes his role as Director of the monoline Financial Security Assurance, FSA, where he was the founder of the Madrid representative office. In FSA he designed the financing of several large infrastructure transactions. Prior to joining Financial Security Assurance, he was the Director of Structured Finance for the investment banking unit of Caja Madrid, where he lead the bespoke financing activity of Caja Madrid to its major corporate clients. Jesus’ team was in charge of structuring, underwriting and syndicating the project finance, acquisition finance and asset based (vessels, aircrafts) finance business in Caja Madrid.
Before joining Caja Madrid, Jesus was the Head of the Specialised Finance Division of Banque Nationale de Paris –currently BNP Paribas- in Madrid, where he was in charge of Project and Export finance. Jesus started his professional experience in Bouygues, where he was development & field engineer in Saur, Bouygues’ water and environment subsidiary.
Jesus was a member and speaker of the Spanish Government Official delegation of the US – Spain Infrastructure Forum in 2002 and was also the speaker, on behalf of the European bank community, at the Latin American Energy Organization in 2000.
Jesús is a MSc. in Mining Engineering by the Madrid School of Mines and holds a Master in Management by the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) of Paris where he studied for two years.
Selected transaction experience:
- 1.8 billion US$ of wrapped debt for the Chicago Skyway, being at that moment the largest infrastructure bond issue ever done. Infrastructure Deal of the year 2006, Project Finance Magazine
- 360 million € to finance the construction, on a non recourse basis, of the Bizkaia steel mini mill
- 325 million € for the combined bond issue and EIB loan for Feria de Valencia
- US$ 250 million of wrapped debt for the Chilean toll road Rutas del Pacífico. Latin American Deal of the year 2002, Project Finance International; Latin American Transport Deal of the year 2002, Project Finance Magazine
- 110 million € wrapped refinancing of the Autovía de la Mancha shadow toll road, first project finance of a toll road to be rated in the “A” category by Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s rating agencies
- 96 million € future flow securitization for the Seville water company. European Municipal Finance deal of the year, Project Finance Magazine 2002
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| IBI SINGAPORE |
RICK MARCHESE is an experienced Wall Street and Silicon Valley investment banker having completed nearly 50 transactions totaling over $10 Billion USD and having covered a broad base of public and private financing and M&A advisory assignments across the globe. He has worked with a wide range of clients from venture capital financing for start-ups to strategic advisory for Fortune 50 companies. His industry experience covers Chemicals, Transportation, Telecom, Retailing, Consumer Products, Technology, and Security and Defense industries.
Most recently Rick served as Vice President at Deutsche Bank in their Consumer Products and Retail Client Group in New York where he called on and worked with corporate and private equity clients throughout the world.
Prior to Deutsch Bank, Rick split his time between Merrill Lynch’s Consumer Products Group in New York and their Internet Technology Group in Silicon Valley, California where he led their Internet eCommerce, effort raising capital for growing internet companies and providing strategic advisory for Fortune 500 companies looking to monetize or expand their existing internet businesses.
Rick began his investment banking career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (subsequently acquired by Credit Suisse) as a corporate finance associate in the generalist program. He immediately gained significant transaction experience in emerging markets, private equity and leveraged finance.
Rick has also been extensively involved in interviewing, recruiting, training and staffing analysts and associates at Merrill Lynch and Deustche Bank. He previously taught undergraduate economics at Texas Central College.
Rick is a former U.S. Naval Officer and has an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago – Booth and a B.S. in Economics from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Selected transaction experience:
- Lead-managed $4.5 billion debt financing for Bain Capital and The Blackstone Group’s leveraged buyout of Michaels Stores, the world’s largest specialty retailer of arts and crafts
- Completed $325 million dividend recapitalization of Simmons Bedding, a leading bedding manufacturer, for T. H. Lee Partners
- Acted as sole placement agent for $150 million debt offering for Bonduelle, S.A. a leading French processed vegetables company
- Managed $300 million initial public offering for Del Monte Foods, an American food production and distribution company
- Advised La-Z-Boy on its $300 million acquisition of LADD Furniture, a transformative deal which repositioned La-Z-Boy as one of the leading U.S. manufacturers of residential furniture
- Lead-managed $110 million initial public offering for AO VimpelCom, the third largest telecom operator in Russia and the first Russian company to list on the NYSE. Subsequently completed a $100 million follow-on equity offering
- Lead-managed $125 million follow-on equity offering for Bell & Howell Inc., a media equipment manufacturer. Also advised on financial and strategic alternatives including recapitalization, spin-off and divestitures. Executed tender offer and recapitalization of $280 million of high yield debt
- Managed a $240 million equity offering and a $200 million follow-on equity offering for DealerTrack, the leading provider of on-demand software for the U.S. auto industry
- Advised private equity firm, Mid-Ocean Partners on the acquisition of Bushnell Outdoor Products, a leading supplier of sports optics and outdoor accessories
- Advised private equity firm, Pegasus Partners on the sale of Cannondale Bicycles to Dorel Industries
- Managed a $185 million high yield offering for PT Tri Polyta, an Indonesian supplier of petrochemicals
- Acted as exclusive agent and advisor for the sale of Murray’s Discount Auto Parts, an automotive parts retailer. Completed acquisition financing of $25 million of privately placed high yield notes
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| IBI UK & BULGARIA |
GEORGE SIDJIMKOV is a well seasoned Investment Banker and Private Equity investor with a background on both the sell side as well as buy side of financial transactions. George brings over $8.5 billion in aggregate deal and pitch experience from the past 16 years to IBI Europe.
In his most recent engagement as Investment Director for CFP Capital (Jersey) Ltd. George is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, executing, and monitoring a portfolio of venture capital investments in technology companies located in the European Union for a EUR 100m fund. In this position George also works with CEOs, CFOs, and other senior managers of portfolio technology companies to develop strategies and make decisions that will help to create economic value.
Previously as CEO of Development Capital Management, George advised the Black Sea Property Fund on acquiring, developing and selling real estate in Eastern Europe. In this role, George led an 11 member team through every stage of the investment process. George began his finance career in 1995 with Deutsche Bank AG in Germany. He ultimately spent 8 years with Deutsche, completing his tenure as an Associate in London with the Global Corporate Finance industry group, where he collaborated on over 22 projects and was responsible for strategic analysis and financial modeling of European companies.
George’s credentials include handling M&A, IPOs, and Recapitalizations of small and medium sized technology companies for Corporate Finance Partners in Frankfurt. On behalf of Charlemagne Capital in London, George worked closely with the Portfolio Manager to structure and execute the divestiture of Eastern European Real Estate assets. George also advised Advent International (London) on the acquisition of the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company. Throughout his career, George has worked with both public and private companies, he has managed the entire transaction process across the full spectrum of investment banking engagements; he also managed the creation of one of the most successful residential developments in Sofia.
George holds an MBA degree from the Yale School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, with an emphasis on Corporate Finance. He attended Yale on a full scholarship from Deutsche Bank and was the first recipient from DB of such an opportunity. George is fluent in Bulgarian, English and German with a good working knowledge of Russian and Italian.
Selected Transaction Experience (most names and deal sizes remain confidential):
- Privatization of Bulgarian Telecommunications Company for € 385 million
- Sale of TZUM AD, shopping mall in Sofia, Bulgaria
- Land acquisition in Borovetz / Bulgaria for € 80 million
- Land acquisition in Sofia, Bulgaria for € 18 million
- Acquisition of a major European fixed telecom line operator
- Acquisition of Telitas ASA
- Divestiture of mobile phone subsidiary
- Acquisition of Smart Card and Memory Chip manufacturer
- Acquisition of iTouch Plc for € 278 million
- Spinout of Telecom company
- LBO of fixed line telecom operator
- LBO of cable and internet service provider
- Bond buyback and restructuring for European Telecom company
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| IBI GERMANY & SWITZERLAND |
CAROLA KAMUFF is a seasoned investment banker with over 11 years of transaction experience in M&A at Drueker & Co, Frankfurt (today Leonardo & Co.). As a Vice President, she executed sell-side as well as buy-side mandates, and also restructuring projects, for German Mittelstands companies, private equity houses as well as multinational groups. During her career she acquired a broad range of industry experience, including steel, machinery, leisure, capital goods, consumer goods, retail, infrastructure, and asset management. The transaction values of the transactions she advised on total more than $1.8 billion.
Via secondment, she worked as Associate with Enskilda Securities in London in 2000, where she covered online banking and telecommunications.
Today, she is a management and communication trainer, certified by the dvct (German Coaching and Training Association).
Carola holds a diploma in Mathematics, with economics as a side subject, from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, and completed an apprenticeship with BHF-Bank in Frankfurt.
Selected Transaction Experience:
- Advised Quadriga Capital on the sale of Coventya International GmbH, a producer of surface treatment materials, to French Natexis Industrie (2006)
- Advised Equita Management GmbH and the management team on the sale of Austrian AHT Holding GmbH, one of the market leaders for plug-in industrial cooling systems, to Quadriga Capital Ltd. (2006)
- Advised Homag Group AG on the sale of the IMA Klessmann Group, a leading supplier worldwide of wood processing machinery for the finishing of edges, to Adcuram Industriekapital AG (2005)
- Advised the shareholders of H. Schneider GmbH & Co. KG, a group of specialty mail order businesses, on the sale of the Company to Barclays Private Equity GmbH (2005)
- Advised Triton Beteiligungsberatung GmbH on the sale of TanQuid GmbH & Co. KG, the tank farm division of Lehnkering GmbH, to Australian Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund Limited (2005)
- Advised Georgsmarienhütte Holding GmbH on the acquisition of 100% of Mannstaedt Werke, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of hot-rolled special-steel profiles, from British Corus Group (2005)
- Advised Quadriga Capital Ltd. and the management team on the sale of Austrian AHT Group (2004)
- Advised TA Triumph-Adler AG on the sale of Hüco Electronic Group, a manufacturer of electronic components, to LA electronic GmbH, a subsidiary of LRP Capital GmbH (2002)
- Advised Swiss Bad Seedamm AG on the sale of 100% of the shares in Bad Seedamm AG, operator of the largest European indoor waterslide park, to Spanish Aspro Ocio S.A. (1999)
- Advised Schroders & Partner, now Permira, on the sale of German-Hungarian Burton-Werke Group, manufacturer of tunnel kiln systems, to SG European Equity Partners (1999)
- Advised Georgsmarienhütte Holding GmbH on the acquisition of 100% of steel producer Stahlwerk Bous GmbH from Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes Deutschland (1998)
- Advised Keiper Recaro on the sale of its just-in-time car seat business to Lear Corp., USA (1997)
- Advised Götz family on the sale of eterna Mode to Adolf Ahlers AG (1996)
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MEHDI ASSADI is a seasoned investment banker with significant experience in M&A, Valuations, and Strategic Advisory. He has advised small to multi-national companies across a spectrum of industries including Internet, Software, Healthcare, Industrial and Logistics.
Currently, Mehdi is a Vice President for the Technology M&A group of Duff & Phelps in their Paris office where he works on both principal investing and buy-side investment banking advisory activities. At Duff & Phelps he works extensively with CEOs, CFOs, and Directors of small to large cap European corporations and International firms. He also has worked extensively with Partners and Investment Directors of European Private Equity firms where he gained extensive experience with LBO modeling, detailed operating models, and private company valuation. He has developed an expertise in Corporate Carve Outs and Spin Offs of large quoted multinational companies seeking to divest complex and troubled assets. He also lectures on Valuation of Startup companies for the European Venture Capital Association as well as for ESSEC, the French business school.
Prior to M&A advisory, Mehdi was a Senior Associate in the Valuation Advisory practice of Duff & Phelps where he executed cross-border purchase price allocations, intellectual property valuations and tax valuations on European cross-border transactions as well as trans-atlantic engagements.
Mehdi graduated from Georgetown University and received his MBA from INSEAD.
Selected Transaction Experience:
- Project Andorra – Carve-out of €400 million distribution and trading unit of major Aluminum producer with 14 subsidiaries on three continents
- Purchase Price Allocation for Sanofi Aventis acquisition of Eastern-European generics maker Zentiva valued at $2.6 billion
- Project Sunblade – €10 million Owner Buy Out for French enterprise storage integrator
- Project Mercury – Sale of call center software publisher with €40 million in revenues originating in North America, Europe, North Africa and Asia
- Project Lux – Strategic advisory & fundraising for Luxembourg start-up healthcare informatics company specialized in Decision Support tools for AIDS and Hepatitis specialists
- Project Talon – Fundraising for Internet local search company based in France but leading markets in Europe and #2 in US
- Purchase Price Allocation for Geodis SA acquisition of German freight forwarder and logistics firm Rodhe & Liesenfeld valued at €70 million
- Intellectual Property Valuation for Dassault Systems
- Purchase Price Allocation for France Telecom – Deutsche Telecom UK Joint-Venture
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| IBI SOUTH AFRICA |
JOEL CHIMHANDA has over 12 years Investment Banking deal experience gained in the Africa Division of one of SA top 4 banks and JC Capital, a niche M&A advisory boutique he founded in 2005. Joel brings a strong track record of proven success in very difficult transactions across a variety of industries and in multiple stages and types of investment to IBI in South Africa.
Joel’s investment banking expertise covers M&A, project & infrastructure finance, private equity investment appraisal & strategy. Joel has experience managing regional business operations balance sheet and profit & loss. He is an expert in process re-engineering, new market entry strategies, cost & efficiency optimisation strategies, introduction of corporate governance best practice, integration of acquisitions and businesses turn-around strategies. Joel brings extensive sub-Sahara Africa strategic, operating and general management experience, having worked as an operator in various multi-national corporations over the 10 years prior moving into the M&A industry. His work experience covered operations in the UK, Belgium, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia and Mozambique. Joel’s deal execution experience covers a diverse range of transactions including the lead advisor role in acquisition of 5 banks in SADC region and joint advisor (with Global Capital Markets Investment Bank) in the set up of an Africa Infrastructure Fund. As Head of Investment Banking in the Africa Division of one of SA top 4 Banks, he was co-advisor in negotiating a proposed Africa Private Equity Fund joint venture with one of top global US Insurance Groups. Other corporate finance transaction experience include the IPO of ICT company on JSE, M&A of an ICT company on JSE and special advisor to four SA Group CEOs in executing their M&A expansion strategies.
Prior to entering the Investment Banking industry in 1997, Joel held positions as CFO in multinational corporations and Manager in one of top 4 Audit firms. He served as a board member of 4 SADC country banks and an asset management company. Joel represented Africa Division MD as a member of Private Investor Africa (“PIA“) Secretariat in Brussels. PIA comprises the MDs of top sub-Sahara Africa multi-national corporations Barclays Africa, Heineken, Guinness, Lafarge, MTN, Standard Bank Group, CFAO and Unilever.
Joel is an Accounting Science Graduate from UNISA and completed an Advance Management Programme with GIBS (University of Pretoria), and EMBA from Kellogg, 2011.
Selected Transaction Experience:
- Special Advisor to Group CEO of no.1 SA commuter transport group merging its rail, bus & real estate companies into a consolidated single group, $4 billion recapitalisation
- Special Advisor to Group CEO & CFO of no. 1 freight & transport group in the $3 billion sale/ disposal of non-core assets
- Joint advisor with Global Capital Market Investment Bank to set up a $300mln Africa Infrastructure Fund
- Advisor in the $80 million acquisition of 4 sub Sahara African Banks for top 4 SA Banks
- Lead Advisor of East Africa Investment Asset Management Group on issuance of $100 million expansion debt
- Advisor to CEO of leading SA supply chain logistics business in $100 million acquisition of parcels distribution franchise
- Lead Advisor in $50 million divestiture of an underperforming market leader in the supply chain & logistic sector
- Joint Advisor to the Board of JSE listed IT accompany in $100 million merger with another IT distribution and Services business
- Advisor to the Board of an East Africa Bank in the $10 million sale of a controlling stake to finance its expansion strategy
- Set-up $20 million fund for Skanska to hedge exchange risk over 5 years during construction of a pipeline
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| IBI ISRAEL |
ELI MAGID has over 10 years of experience in investment banking and the capital markets having worked for both the sell-side and buy-side on three different continents. He brings to the training room his significant experience in Valuation, Cross Border M&A, Structured Products, Leveraged Buy-Outs, Principal Investments, Private Placements, Strategic Advisory, Syndication and Carbon Trading.
Eli’s investment banking experience in the US, Europe and Israel includes having worked for the Debt Capital Markets group at Credit Suisse where he structured, executed and marketed $15 billion of securitizations across a diverse credit and product spectrum. Later he worked for Morgan Stanley in London and Tel Aviv facilitating M&A, equity offerings, LBOs, private placements and share buy-back transactions across a wide variety of industries such as telecom, real estate, hi-tech and renewable energy.
His experience on the buy-side includes working for Hyperion Capital (now Hyperion Brookfield) where Eli’s responsibilities included fixed income research and portfolio modeling. In addition he worked for hedge fund Fortress Investment Group’s Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund analyzing potential debt and equity real estate opportunities. This task included generating quantitative models calculating the level of risk and internal rate of return of prospective investments.
Currently, Eli is a financial markets entrepreneur and Co-Founder of a start-up which utilizes carbon finance to prevent rainforest destruction. Eli is also the Co-Founder and Director of social venture FinTechIsrael, a blog and live community which connects Israeli entrepreneurs, industry professionals, investors, and students.
Eli has a degree in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University and is US SEC NASD licensed for the Series 7 and 63.
Selected Transaction Experience:
- Structured the re-capitalization of $4.3 billion of real estate debt for IndyMac
- Lead-managed the capital raising of a combined $2.7 billion in asset backed financing for Chevy Chase Bank
- Co-managed a $784 million debt capital markets issuance for HSBC
- Acquisition advisory for an Israeli solar panel manufacturer, ultimately acquired for $418 million
- Managed the execution and syndication of a $336 million debt capital markets issuance for Société Générale
- Pre-private placement valuation advisory for a $220 million West African telecom company
- Advised Bezeq (TASE:BEZQ), Israeli’s largest telecommunications company, on an equity offering
- Managed a share buy-back transaction for a dual NYSE-TASE listed mobile point-of-sales payments company
- Acquisition advisory for a large publicly traded international container shipping company
- LBO of a publicly traded European gaming company
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