Jay W. Tom Email & Phone Number

Wisteria Court’s Managing Partner and Founder, Jay Tom, began his investment banking career in Latin America in 1990, just at the end of the Latin American debt crisis and as companies and sovereigns from Latin America were once again able to raise capital internationally – the creation of the “Emerging Markets” asset class. Jay has been an investment banker for more than 20 years raising capital for sovereigns, corporations and financial institutions from the global emerging markets. He has held several positions of leadership, structured more than $20 billion of financing transactions and has built business platforms across all fixed income products. Prior to starting Wisteria Court, Jay was Managing Director & Head of Debt Capital Markets for Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank with a focus on global emerging markets. Jay was directly responsible for building the high yield, liability management, structured finance, securitization, project finance, private placements, local markets and DCM loans businesses. Under Jay’s leadership, Standard Bank was the leading underwriter of Brazilian Eurobonds in 2003, leading underwriter of Brazilian cross-border local currency linked bonds in 2007 and leading liability management advisor in Latin America. Awards won include LatinFinance Corporate Liability Management Deal of the Year in 2008. Jay has important relationships with global banks, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and private equity funds.Prior to Standard Bank, Jay was a Director for Merrill Lynch in the Latin America DCM group from 1994 to 1999 and a Vice President for Citicorp Securities in the Emerging Markets Corporate Finance Division from 1990 to 1994. Wisteria Court’s client team includes investment banking professionals with product experience in M&A, Private Equity, Equity & Debt capital markets and Project & Acquisition Finance.

Listed skills include Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Emerging Markets, Fixed Income, and 27 others.

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  The University Of Chicago - Booth School Of Business

  Finance & International Business