25+ year veteran emerging markets investment banker focused on the real asset sector, specializing in resources and related verticals including services companies, transportation/logistics, value added processing, etc as well as defense/security and "special situations" for clients impacted by event driven issues. Our primary expertise is in structuring and placing complex cross-border transactions including those in "frontier" emerging market regions (Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa) and we do operate in the OECD countries primarily in North America and Australia in our areas of sector expertise. ACP recently added a vertical focused on Energy Transition and Industrial Decarbonization and we have also added India to our geographic coverage. Primary sector focus areas include:-Large scale agribusinesses including row crops (soybeans, corn, sugar, cotton), permanent crops (blueberries, avocados, table grapes, tree nuts, tropical belt crops including cocoa, rubber), cattle, etc including sustainable/ESG compliant models-Upstream Energy (oil/gas)-Water-Mining-Transportation/ logistics (storage, ports/terminals, maritime)-Power generation-Defense/Security-Energy Transition/Industrial Decarbonization -"Special Situations": Solutions for issuers requiring rapid balance sheet repair as the result of event driven factors such as currency/commodity price volatility, loss of key clients, loss of credit lines, etc.Currently Managing Director at ACP Capital Markets, a merchant/investment bank specializing in Latin America, Africa and globally within defined real asset sectors. Formerly Managing Director at INTL FCStone Securities (StoneX), the corporate finance arm of INTL FCStone, a global commodity risk management and trading company and Co-Founder of its predecessor firm, Provident Group, an EM specialty investment bank. Vice-President/Business Unit Manager Salomon Brothers for US/Latin American Equities. 1996-1997 based in Buenos Aires with Salomon affiliate, responsible for oversight of joint ventures in the Southern Cone of Latin America.
Listed skills include Private Equity, Investment Banking, Emerging Markets, Corporate Finance, and 33 others.