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March 19, 2010

Past Issues

Capital Markets

Dan Ammann

Dan Ammann grew up on a dairy farm in New Zealand, and these days, when he's not working as a banker specializing in the industrial sector, you can still find him spending time outdoors.

Anita Antenucci

It's no secret that last year was not a great one for mergers and acquisitions, but Anita Antenucci found herself as busy as ever.

Erica Berthou

Fundraising in private equity isn't easy these days. However, specialist attorney Erica Berthou still manages to post impressive results.

Aryeh Bourkoff

Aryeh Bourkoff, joint global head of technology, media and telecommunications investment banking at UBS, has had a stronger appreciation for the companies he covers since the completion of his "passion project," the documentary "The Last Jews of Libya."

Noah Bulkin

Noah Bulkin considered taking up law and went as far as interning at Linklaters' Brussels office before enrolling at Oxford University. But all it took was one visit to Merrill Lynch's London office to get him hooked on investment banking.

Jim Bunn

Jim Bunn, who joined Raymond James & Associates in May when it bought Lane, Berry & Co., the small investment bank where Bunn worked, has hit a number of home runs in 2009.

Tom Chin

During the work week, Tom Chin can often be found strolling through shopping centers like Garden State Plaza Mall in his home state of New Jersey.

Charlie Cho

Charlie Cho played football at Columbia University for a season. The global head of credit flow trading at Bank of America Merrill Lynch says his year on the Lions squad taught him a lot about the importance of being a team player.

Brian Cogliandro

Some Wall Street dealmakers leave finance for another career, and some people give up another career for one in investment banking. Mitsubishi UFJ Securities USA Inc.'s Brian Cogliandro falls into the latter group.

K. Don Cornwell

Like many dealmakers K. Don Cornwell did not embark on a career in finance immediately, but Wall Street's influence was never far away.

Stephane Courbon

Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Stephane Courbon has worked on a wide range of major equity capital markets deals in France over the past 15 years.

Barrie Covit

Barrie Covit, a corporate partner in Simpson Thacher's New York office, has represented some of the largest and most well-known private-equity funds, but his most interesting work last year involved the Treasury Department's $500 billion Public-Private Investment Program.

Robert Crowley

Robert Crowley admits that it appeared risky when he left UBS, where he was a senior investment banker in the global industrial group, to help establish another shop, Moelis & Co., in mid-2007.

Dan Davidson

Several times each year, Dan Davidson, a director in Morgan Joseph's health care group, finds time to carry out a solemn duty: riding his Harley-Davidson with the Patriot Guard Riders motorcycle club to attend funerals for American soldiers.

Tom Davidson

It should come as no surprise that Tom Davidson, co-head of the Americas health care group for Credit Suisse, earned a spot on the 40 Under 40 list. He has always been one of the youngest in many of his endeavors.

Gopal Garuda

Gopal Garuda isn't the type of person who waits for things to happen.

Mark Goldman

When he was 16 years old, Mark Goldman had the opportunity to attend an investing seminar that featured Warren Buffett and other business leaders. "I loved the way they thought, and I wanted to do whatever they did, whatever that was."

Matthew Gooch

For Matthew Gooch, a New York native, a six-month stint in London sounded like a good experience, so he obliged William Blair & Co. when the firm asked him to go there. Ten-plus years later, he is still there and loving it.

J.P. Hanson

Early in his career, J.P. Hanson tried his hand at a few different roles on Wall Street. But he eventually came to the conclusion that he wanted to get into the advisory business, specifically working with companies undergoing workouts.

Fabrice Hugon

As the credit crisis cooled Fabrice Hugon and his colleagues at BNP Paribas saw a demand among investors for simpler investments.

Scott Kolbrenner

After graduating from the University of Colorado where he studied psychology, Scott Kolbrenner went to Harvard Law School where he had his first introduction to investment banking.

Sarah Marie Martin

Sarah Marie Martin may very well be one of the busiest professionals in the investment banking industry today.

John Mazey

John Mazey, a partner at Jones Day, played a pivotal role in last year's highly publicized bankruptcy proceedings for Chrysler LLC.

Chris Mead

In both his personal life and his career, Chris Mead, head of Southern California investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch based in Los Angeles, takes things to extremes.

John Momtazee

John Momtazee's collaboration with Ken Moelis began as a family affair.

Thierry Monjauze

It's safe to say things worked out pretty well last year for Thierry Monjauze.

Sean Rodgers

Sean Rodgers, a partner in Simpson Thacher’s corporate department, had no single megadeal to complete last year. Instead, the La Jolla, Calif., native, who specializes in mergers and acquisitions, simply did what he has been doing since he joined the firm’s New York office in December 1995: working on a variety of deals, mainly on behalf of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

Ravi Sachdev

Ravi Sachdev always expected to follow in his family’s footsteps and become a physician. He was a pre-med student at the University of Michigan getting ready to take his MCATs when he thought, “This is brutal.”

Augusto Sasso

A very high-profile mandate is giving Augusto Sasso of Moelis & Co. little time to spend with his family. Since November, Sasso has been working in Dubai as an adviser to the emirate’s government on the $26 billion debt restructuring of its Dubai World holding company.

Vikrant Sawhney

Vikrant Sawhney has been on both sides of the leveraged finance fence. He has worked at Wall Street investment banks, where he has helped arrange financing for financial sponsors, and now he is a managing director at a major player in private equity, Blackstone Group.

Tomer Seifan

Tomer Seifan started his career as a lawyer focused on bank regulatory issues. At that time, he said, there were virtually no corporate bankruptcies to speak of, and many participants believed that bankruptcy and regulatory problems would be a thing of the past.

Todd Sisitsky

Todd Sisitsky finds himself smack in the middle of some of the most interesting yet challenging sectors today for investors — health care services, pharmaceuticals and medical devices — and he likes it that way.

Eric Swedenburg

It seems natural that a huge sports fan like Eric Swedenburg would be representing Nets Sports and Entertainment and Forest City Ratner Cos. in the sale of the New Jersey Nets and the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov.

Marcie Vu

When she's not working with technology giants like Google — she was part of the Morgan Stanley team that led the Internet company’s initial public offering and follow-on equity offering — Marcie Vu likes climbing mountains, some of them 14,000 feet high.

Peter Wallace

Peter Wallace has ridden his share of roller coasters, but perhaps none were as important as those he rode in Orlando, Fla., and Williamsburg, Va., last year.

Scott Warrender

The lessons Scott Warrender has learned in the boxing ring have served him well in his career.

Andrew Wenner

Andrew Wenner, a vice president in the capital markets group at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities USA Inc. in New York, said he wanted to be a stockbroker in his late teen years before getting knee-deep into the credit markets after college.

Avery Whidden

Avery Whidden's father, Tom, was a sailmaker and professional sailor who helped his son get a start as a banker.

Evan Winkler

Had it not been for a job offer from Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Evan Winkler might have become a lawyer instead of an investment banker.

Stephen Wise

Stephen Wise, a managing director on the U.S. health care buyout team at Carlyle Group, has spent the past four years of his tenure at the Washington, D.C., firm working with a variety of companies, including those involved in pharmaceutical development, life sciences and medical device manufacturing.

Financial Services

Looking Ahead

Calendar of important events taking place in the capital markets next week.

Quoted

Notable quotes from capital-markets players during the past week.

Fixed Income

Obama Signs BABified Jobs Bill

President Obama Thursday signed a $17.6 billion jobs bill that enables municipal issuers to receive direct, Build America Bond-style payments from four types of tax-credit bonds.

LAX Making Use of Stimulus With $898M Deal

The Los Angeles Department of Airports plans to sell $898 million of revenue bonds to finance the rebuilding of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport.

Yields Are a Bit Mixed During a Week of Distractions

The Bond Buyer’s weekly yield indexes were somewhat mixed this week, with yields little changed after a new-issue driven week.

Issuer Put Off by BAB Offsets

The Treasury Department is “acutely aware” of the importance of the continuity of federal subsidy payments under the Build America Bond program, an official said.

Compensation Models in Play

As the trickle of taxable Build America Bonds coming to market turned into a flood last year, issuers’ underwriting-designation policies followed the course charted by the corporate market. In recent months, signs have emerged that the tide is turning and there is no agreement on whether or not that’s a good thing.

Personnel File

KBW Launches New Practice

JPMorgan veteran will lead firm’s real estate I-banking team.

Regulation

Say Goodbye to the Euro?

The most likely trigger of a euro exit in practice would be a run on a periphery country’s banks.

Securities in Registration

Securities In Registration

The following is a list of planned new offerings that have been registered with the SEC in the past month, but have not yet come to market. Deals that have been withdrawn are excluded.