His experience includes work in corporate finance, structuring and debt trading. He was previously with International Assets Corp. where he was head of bond trading. Prior to that position he was a Director of Fixed-Income trading at ABN-Amro and a Vice President at Bank of America Securities where he worked in corporate finance, private placements and fixed income trading.
During the past 20 years, he has held senior asset management and treasury positions with Van Eck Global, Coutts & Co. and Banco de Colombia. He served as Vice President at the Standard Bank Group of South Africa and has over 10 years experience in originations, structuring and distribution of fixed income sovereign & corporate debt transactions in Latin America.
He brings over 20 years of corporate finance and investment banking experience. He was previously Head of Private Placements and Non-U.S. Debt Capital Markets at WestLB and spent over 15 years at Banc of America Securities. Mr. Lau is particularly experienced in bringing issuers with a complex credit history successfully to the market.
Mr. Nichols is a 30-year veteran of Bank of America with over 13 years experience as a Managing Director in the Private Placement Group. Mr. Nichols (along with Mr. Lau) helped build the largest private placement franchise in the market while at Bank of America. Working in a firm that ranked continuously #1 in traditional private placements for more than a decade, Nichols gained broad experience in the execution and distribution of corporate, sovereign and structured names; both high grade and high yield; including extensive experience in arranging cross-border corporate transactions out of Europe, India, Latin America and Australia.
Mr. Weiss brings over 27 years of experience in corporate finance with a specialty in credit ratings advisory. He has demonstrated success in developing and managing the global rating businesses for Global Capital Advisors and Banc of America Securities. Mr. Weiss has a record of success across multiple industry sectors focusing on both investment and non-investment grade companies. Prior to joining Bank of America Securities he worked at Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group as Global Energy Team Leader and senior energy analyst, and was the agency’s spokesperson on the non-regulated energy industry. Mr. Weiss has vast experience obtaining new ratings and supporting existing ratings. He also is well versed in ratings advisory resulting from leverage and M&A transactions.
Brings over 20 years of private wealth and relationship management experience. He was the Head of Sales for Latin America at Standard Chartered Private Bank (formerly American Express Bank) and Chief Executive Officer of Stanchart Securities International Inc. (a FINRA registered Broker Dealer). He was Vice President at Bank of America-Private Bank and subsequently NatWest Coutts & Co. Throughout his career, he has held numerous investment policy positions including Chief Investment Specialist for Global Wealth Management responsible for leading the investment product strategy and product distribution through a team of investment specialists located around the world and a member of the firm’s Global Asset Allocation Committee and Client Investment Policy Committee.
Has over 15 years of experience in fixed income, structured products and trade finance. He was the Head of the Corporate Desk at Standard Chartered Bank (formerly American Express Bank) where he founded the institutional structured products and bonds trading business in Latin America. He was Vice President for Dresdner Lateinamerika Financial Advisors and John Nuveen Company (formerly Rittenhouse Financial Services in Radnor, PA.) servicing Latin American institutional clients. Mike is experienced in providing innovative investment solutions to financial institutions and treasuries in Latin America.
Has over 20 years of industry experience. The first 15 years of his career were spent as an Equity Derivatives Trader – trading Single Stock and Index Structured Products. He started his trading career at Bankers Trust in London. He then worked at ING Barings – both in London and New York and then continued his career at Commerzbank in London. In 2005 he started the North American Institutional Equity Execution business at LinkBrokers in New York. His broad based experience in all aspects of derivative trading and managing derivative risk proved to be invaluable when creating and maintaining a successful brokerage business.
He has over 10 year experience in the Equity business. He was the head trader on the Equity Execution desk at LinkBrokers Derivatives Corporation. His career also includes being the Institutional Execution Trader at Refco Securities and Louis Capital Markets.