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HIGH QUALITY TRAINING IS A RESULT OF REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE:
As its exclusive training staff, IBI employs 12 investment bankers who have worked for some of Wall Street's most respected firms, each having between 5 and 20 years of I-Banking and Private Equity or Hedge Fund expertise. Moreover, each of our bankers have, at some point in their careers, been an instrumental part of the training programs and hiring process in the banks they worked for.
The IBI difference is clear: Training with our bankers allows the effective transfer of skills that you can directly apply when seeking to enter the finance industry and add value to the job from day one.
In addition to our training staff, IBI also maintains 3 more investment banking veterans (each with over 10 years of experience) available 7 days a week, to assist you with every facet of your career advancement.
Any of our bankers on staff will personally assist you with resume changes (to reflect our training) as well as reformat, and professionalize your resume as needed, guide you through interview Q & A's, mock interviews, and how to specifically target employers. (We will assist you in sending your resume to numerous firms and guide you through the interview process).
We invite you to call us and find out how, over the years, we have helped numerous individuals advance their careers and secure highly sought after jobs in the finance industry. Our dedication to your success is the most important part of our training program. (Please ask to see our Graduate testimonials).
Below you will find detailed descriptions of our International bankers, their professional experience, and their completed transactions; click "United States" above for information on our US bankers. (Please call to obtain the resume of any of our instructors).
| IBI TORONTO |
ASHISH KOHLI is a seasoned investment banker with over 15 years of transaction experience across all product groups of investment banking and private equity including leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, private placements, IPOs and secondary offerings, high yield debt and restructuring. He also led IB Training programs in all the firms where he worked including leading the global analyst and associate training program at HSBC in NY and London.
Ashish's experience throughout the US and Europe includes his role as a Principal/Director for the Investment Banking Division of ThinkEquity Partners NY/Panmure Gordon UK in the Corporate Finance Group leading transactions across all industries. He was previously a Vice President of Investment Banking in the Execution Group (M&A and capital raising) for HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. in NY where he executed M&A and capital raising transactions in industries such as consumer/retail, real estate and oil and gas.
Prior to HSBC, Ashish was a Senior Associate for the Investment Banking Division of Jefferies & Company as a Generalist and in the Technology and Media Group where he focused on restructuring and recapitalizations, M&A advisory and capital raisings. He advised Samsonite on its recapitalization and the deal was awarded the 2003 U.S. Middle Market Deal of the Year by Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor.
In earlier years Ashish was an Associate in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse First Boston/Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where he worked in the Generalist and Technology Groups, advising and raising capital for companies across a number of different sectors. He also worked with DLJ's private equity group, one of the leading private equity groups on Wall Street.
Ashish earned an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Dean's List). He is also a Chartered Accountant (US CPA).
Selected Transaction Experience:
- Managed a $2.1 billion IPO for Genuity
- Managed a $1.2 billion high yield financing and lead-managed a $825 million convertible stock offering for PSINet
- Managed the $750 million AIM listing of Hirco real estate fund
- Advised Samsonite Corporation on its $600 million recapitalization transaction including $106 million new equity investment by Bain Capital, Ontario Teachers Pension Fund, and Ares Capital. Deal was awarded the 2003 U.S. Middle Market Deal of the Year by Mergers and Acquisitions Advisor
- Advised William Grant & Sons on its potential $400 million acquisition of Svedka vodka in the U.S.
- Represented the ad hoc committee of $380.5 million 13% Senior Notes of Mpower Holding Corporation in its successful restructuring
- Managed a $200 million AIM listing of a close-ended fund focused on renewable energy and environmental services in Asia
- Advised PlayCore on its $200 million sale to Chartwell Investments
- Managed a $160 million SPAC offering for a company focused on acquisition of consumer and business service companies in the U.S.
- Managed a $160 million high yield offering for IMAX corp
- Lead-managed a $132.5 million IPO and a $110.7 million secondary offering for ManTech International Corporation
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| IBI BULGARIA |
GEORGE SIDJIMKOV is a well seasoned Investment Banker and Private Equity investor with a background on both the sell side as well as buys side of financial transactions. George brings over $8.2 billion in aggregate deal and pitch experience from the past 15 years to IBI Bulgaria.
In his most recent engagement as CEO of Development Capital Management (Bulgaria), George advised the Black Sea Property Fund on acquiring, developing and selling real estate in Bulgaria. In this role, George led an 11 member team through every stage of the investment process. George began his finance career in 1995 with Deutsche Bank AG in Germany. He ultimately spent 8 years with Deutsche, completing his tenure as an Associate in London with the Global Corporate Finance industry group, where he collaborated on over 22 projects and was responsible for strategic analysis and financial modeling of European companies.
George’s credentials include handling M&A, IPOs, and Recapitalizations of small and medium sized technology companies for Corporate Finance Partners in Frankfurt. On behalf of Charlemagne Capital in London, George worked closely with the Portfolio Manager to structure and execute the divestiture of Eastern European Real Estate assets. George also advised Advent International (London) on the acquisition of the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company. Throughout his career, George has worked with both public and private companies, he has managed the entire transaction process across the full spectrum of investment banking engagements; he also managed the creation of one of the most successful residential developments in Sofia.
George holds an MBA degree from the Yale School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, with an emphasis on Corporate Finance. He attended Yale on a full scholarship from Deutsche Bank and was the first recipient from DB of such an opportunity. George is fluent in Bulgarian, English and German with a good working knowledge of Russian and Italian.
Selected Transaction Experience (most names and deal sizes remain confidential):
- Privatization of Bulgarian Telecommunications Company for € 385 million
- Sale of TZUM AD, shopping mall in Sofia, Bulgaria
- Land acquisition in Borovetz / Bulgaria for € 80 million
- Land acquisition in Sofia, Bulgaria for € 18 million
- Acquisition of a major European fixed telecom line operator
- Acquisition of Telitas ASA
- Divestiture of mobile phone subsidiary
- Acquisition of Smart Card and Memory Chip manufacturer
- Acquisition of iTouch Plc for € 278 million
- Spinout of Telecom company
- LBO of fixed line telecom operator
- LBO of cable and internet service provider
- Bond buyback and restructuring for European Telecom company
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| IBI GERMANY & SWITZERLAND |
CAROLA KAMUFF is a seasoned investment banker with over 11 years of transaction experience in M&A at Drueker & Co, Frankfurt (today Leonardo & Co.). As a Vice President, she executed sell-side as well as buy-side mandates, and also restructuring projects, for German Mittelstands companies, private equity houses as well as multinational groups. During her career she acquired a broad range of industry experience, including steel, machinery, leisure, capital goods, consumer goods, retail, infrastructure, and asset management. The transaction values of the transactions she advised on total more than $1.8 billion.
Via secondment, she worked as Associate with Enskilda Securities in London in 2000, where she covered online banking and telecommunications.
Today, she is a management and communication trainer, certified by the dvct (German Coaching and Training Association).
Carola holds a diploma in Mathematics, with economics as a side subject, from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, and completed an apprenticeship with BHF-Bank in Frankfurt.
Selected Transaction Experience:
- Advised Quadriga Capital on the sale of Coventya International GmbH, a producer of surface treatment materials, to French Natexis Industrie (2006)
- Advised Equita Management GmbH and the management team on the sale of Austrian AHT Holding GmbH, one of the market leaders for plug-in industrial cooling systems, to Quadriga Capital Ltd. (2006)
- Advised Homag Group AG on the sale of the IMA Klessmann Group, a leading supplier worldwide of wood processing machinery for the finishing of edges, to Adcuram Industriekapital AG (2005)
- Advised the shareholders of H. Schneider GmbH & Co. KG, a group of specialty mail order businesses, on the sale of the Company to Barclays Private Equity GmbH (2005)
- Advised Triton Beteiligungsberatung GmbH on the sale of TanQuid GmbH & Co. KG, the tank farm division of Lehnkering GmbH, to Australian Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund Limited (2005)
- Advised Georgsmarienhütte Holding GmbH on the acquisition of 100% of Mannstaedt Werke, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of hot-rolled special-steel profiles, from British Corus Group (2005)
- Advised Quadriga Capital Ltd. and the management team on the sale of Austrian AHT Group (2004)
- Advised TA Triumph-Adler AG on the sale of Hüco Electronic Group, a manufacturer of electronic components, to LA electronic GmbH, a subsidiary of LRP Capital GmbH (2002)
- Advised Swiss Bad Seedamm AG on the sale of 100% of the shares in Bad Seedamm AG, operator of the largest European indoor waterslide park, to Spanish Aspro Ocio S.A. (1999)
- Advised Schroders & Partner, now Permira, on the sale of German-Hungarian Burton-Werke Group, manufacturer of tunnel kiln systems, to SG European Equity Partners (1999)
- Advised Georgsmarienhütte Holding GmbH on the acquisition of 100% of steel producer Stahlwerk Bous GmbH from Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes Deutschland (1998)
- Advised Keiper Recaro on the sale of its just-in-time car seat business to Lear Corp., USA (1997)
- Advised Götz family on the sale of eterna Mode to Adolf Ahlers AG (1996)
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| IBI LONDON |
AMOL MAHESHWARI leads the IBI training program in London. Amol is an accomplished finance professional with over 9 years experience as an investment banker and corporate finance executive. He has advised on dozens of companies on a wide range of corporate finance and strategic initiatives with an aggregate value in excess of $ 23 billion. Amol has specific investment banking experience in corporate analysis, public and private equity analysis, equity and debt based transaction identification, risk analysis, initial public offerings, convertible debt issuance and restructuring, corporate mergers & acquisitions, and financial restructuring.
Amol is currently Vice President of Investment Banking Strategies at Morgan Stanley in London, where his focus is to analyze company performance and interpret investor expectations built into market valuation. During his tenure at Morgan Stanley, Amol has advised investment banking clients on strategic finance initiatives. He has worked across industries in Europe with a focus on Technology, Healthcare and Industrial companies to value and analyze more than 75 companies with their market values ranging from $ 250 million to $ 100 billion.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in London, Amol was a Vice President in the ModelWare Group at Morgan Stanley in Mumbai, India where he and his team provided investment analytics to internal and external clients. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Amol was a corporate banker in HSBC handling credit analysis and business development. He also managed several strategic process management initiatives and is an award winning Six Sigma Blackbelt.
Amol is a CFA Charter Holder. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore where he was at the top of the class in Corporate Valuation and among the top 5% in Statistics.
Selected Transaction Experience:
- Capital requirement analysis to identify and market the $ 1.7 billion convertible debt offering for Anglo American and the € 1 billion convertible debt offering for Alcatel Lucent
- Valuation analysis to recommend share buyback programs - € 2 billion program for Alstom, € 500 million program for Legrand, € 2 billion program for Vinci and € 500 million program for Cap Gemini
- Financial modeling and screening to identify debt restructuring targets - Identified targets where transactions were completed included Ferrovial’s € 3.3 billion debt restructuring and the € 4.4 billion capital restructuring and secondary offering of Heidelberg Cement
- Advised on National Express for CVC’s £ 560 million bid and the subsequent £ 365 million rights issue
- Advised on sale or possible IPO of Pets at Home which was eventually bid for by KKR at £ 960 million
- Advised Hibernian Investment Management on ETF investments of $ 172 million
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| IBI ISRAEL |
ELI MAGID has over 10 years of experience in investment banking and the capital markets having worked for both the sell-side and buy-side on three different continents. He brings to the training room his significant experience in Valuation, Cross Border M&A, Structured Products, Leveraged Buy-Outs, Principal Investments, Private Placements, Strategic Advisory, Syndication and Carbon Trading.
Eli’s investment banking experience in the US, Europe and Israel includes having worked for the Debt Capital Markets group at Credit Suisse where he structured, executed and marketed $15 billion of securitizations across a diverse credit and product spectrum. Later he worked for Morgan Stanley in London and Tel Aviv facilitating M&A, equity offerings, LBOs, private placements and share buy-back transactions across a wide variety of industries such as telecom, real estate, hi-tech and renewable energy.
His experience on the buy-side includes working for Hyperion Capital (now Hyperion Brookfield) where Eli’s responsibilities included fixed income research and portfolio modeling. In addition he worked for hedge fund Fortress Investment Group’s Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund analyzing potential debt and equity real estate opportunities. This task included generating quantitative models calculating the level of risk and internal rate of return of prospective investments.
Currently, Eli is a financial markets entrepreneur and Co-Founder of a start-up which utilizes carbon finance to prevent rainforest destruction. Eli is also the Co-Founder and Director of social venture FinTechIsrael, a blog and live community which connects Israeli entrepreneurs, industry professionals, investors, and students.
Eli has a degree in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University and is US SEC NASD licensed for the Series 7 and 63.
Selected Transaction Experience:
- Structured the re-capitalization of $4.3 billion of real estate debt for IndyMac
- Lead-managed the capital raising of a combined $2.7 billion in asset backed financing for Chevy Chase Bank
- Co-managed a $784 million debt capital markets issuance for HSBC
- Acquisition advisory for an Israeli solar panel manufacturer, ultimately acquired for $418 million
- Managed the execution and syndication of a $336 million debt capital markets issuance for Société Générale
- Pre-private placement valuation advisory for a $220 million West African telecom company
- Advised Bezeq (TASE:BEZQ), Israeli’s largest telecommunications company, on an equity offering
- Managed a share buy-back transaction for a dual NYSE-TASE listed mobile point-of-sales payments company
- Acquisition advisory for a large publicly traded international container shipping company
- LBO of a publicly traded European gaming company
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