John Behar, Managing Director
John Behar has more than fourteen years investment banking
experience covering a wide range of financial products and deals across a broad
geographical span including the European, Indian and US markets. He has a particular focus
on leveraged and structured transactions having been centrally involved in private equity
backed leveraged acquisitions worth more than €8bn., but also has experience of
corporate leveraged acquisitions, structured trade finance, and securitisations,
as well as debt and equity listings on the London, Luxembourg and Singapore exchanges. Prior to
establishing Prospect Capital in 2004, John was a corporate financier with Commerzbank and
more recently assisted ICICI Bank (India's second largest bank) in setting up its independent UK subsidiary. A former fund manager and highly integrated member of the financial community in London, John combines comprehensive technical
expertise, insights into the needs of management teams and owners, and an informed feel
for investor appetite to provide effective solutions to financing problems. John is a
graduate of Durham University and holds a finance MBA from Cass Business School.
Ivan Gerginov
Ivan Gerginov has five years investment banking experience.
He brings with him a very high level of technical,
statistical and modelling knowledge as well as a firm
understanding of the entire spectrum of financing
instruments. His work at Elana Securities, Bulgaria's
largest private local financial institution covered equity
valuations, preparation of business plans, and transaction
management. A Bulgarian national, he has performed
due-diligence on over 150 emerging market companies, in the
context of capital raisings, privatisations, and EBRD backed
hostile takeovers. Ivan is fluent in Bulgarian, English and
has a strong working knowledge of Russian. He holds a BSc in
Finance from the University for National & World Economy in
Sofia as well as an MSc in Investment Management from Cass
Business School.
Manish Agarwal
Mr.Agarwal has significant debt
and equity experience both in the domestic Indian market and
internationally, having raised over USD100m for Indian companies over
the past three years. He has extensive involvement in project and
infrastructure financing and has restructured and reengineered a
variety of businesses in India. He also advises a number of Indian
listed companies on financing matters. He holds a Bachelor of
Commerce degree and is a
Chartered Financial Analyst.
Neeraj Kanoria
Mr.Kanoria hails from one of India’s most reputed and
diversified business families and has over 33 years of
experience in establishing and running businesses in a
number of sectors. In addition he has considerable expertise
in trading across a wide spectrum of commodities. He
provides strategic, investment banking and corporate finance
advice to several
leading Indian industrial houses which operate on a
global basis.
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