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Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Managed and oversaw the Canadian syndication desk with a dual focus on primary investment grade origination and execution across various sectors, including corporate, financial, and government issuers. Achieved industry-leading results by showcasing a deep understanding of institutional investor behaviour and risk management, resulting in successful institutional capital raising.- Drove and managed multiple inaugural CAD transactions for global issuers such as Verizon Communications, UPS, McDonald’s, Mondelez, Sysco, New York Life, etc. - Successfully led the execution of the largest-ever CAD offering on record for Rogers Communications.- Excellent coverage of Canadian SSA issuers, such as Canada, CMHC, Province of Quebec, CDP Financial, and OMERS Finance Trust leading to multiple foreign currency mandates.- Led the way in the ABS market, contributing to making Merrill Lynch Canada the largest MBS issuer and Home Trust the first issuer of Near-Prime/Alt-A RMBS in Canada.- Established a vast network of institutional investor relationships for the firm and leveraged it to source impactful reverse inquiry leading to multiple lead-manager roles on offerings from The Walt Disney Company, Met Life, Verizon Communications, Heathrow Funding, and many others.- Demonstrated strong knowledge of derivatives and relative value across the main currency markets to source demand and identify issuing opportunities for clients.- Led the management of multiple CAD offerings for Washington Supranational, including a record-sized C$1.5Bn 5-year offering for the World Bank.- Contributed to Bank of America Corp's successful raising of over C$9Bn of senior unsecured funding in Canada (since 2015), making them the most prolific Maple bond issuer.

Toronto, Canada Area

- Successfully priced and executed investment-grade debt for various issuer types, including domestic and foreign issuers, Maples, SSAs, ABS, and Infrastructure/PPP projects.- Led all activities of the new issue process from roadshow to post-execution tasks, resulting in the seamless execution of multiple successful bond issuances.- Proactively identified and explored new issue opportunities through a strong relative value skillset developed as a swap marketer.- Maintained strong interconnection with different geographical units of the firm across the US, EU, and APAC, resulting in successful cross-border collaboration.- Built valuable relationships with investors in Toronto and Montreal, leading to impactful reverse inquiry and the ability to drive bond mandates.- Demonstrated expertise in hedging important debt issues through derivatives such as bond forwards and interest rate swaps, resulting in effective risk management and enhanced client returns.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

- Provided daily market coverage and insights to large institutional clients, including bank treasuries, hedge funds, pension funds, and money managers.- Developed an expertise in sales with a thorough understanding of fixed income and derivatives, including swaps, bonds, repo, and money market instruments.- Generated profitable relative-value trade ideas using plain vanilla and cross-currency swaps.- FX Options pricing, spot USDCAD trading, and assistance in market making.- Swaps marketing: pricing of interest rates & cross-currency swaps, in addition to other instruments.

Masters (Honours), Applied Financial Economics

• Thesis: A barrier option framework to default risk in the Canadian economy.

Bachelor'S In Business Administration, Finance