Sovereign Debt Distress, Restructurings and Market Access: The Cases of Ireland, Portugal, and Cyprus: Session 2

VIDEO March 5, 2019

Speaker / Author

Rafael M. Molina

Senior Managing Director, Newstate Partners LLP

Rafael has 25 years of experience advising a wide range of clients on finance related matters, including liability management strategies aimed at optimizing debt service profiles and yield curves, enhancing risk management practices, and the financing of sustainable infrastructure projects.  His experience includes:

  • Advising governments around the world in addressing public sector debt challenges, including the restructuring of public sector liabilities and the enhancement of risk management operations
  • Advising governments on the formulation and implementation of targeted liability management strategies
  • Advising sovereign fixed-income creditors and creditor committees on consensual negotiations to settle outstanding public sector claims
Rafael is currently leading the ... Read More

Elena Duggar

Managing Director - Chief Credit Officer Americas, and Chair of Macroeconomic Board, Moody’s Investors Service

Elena Duggar is Moody’s Chief Credit Officer for the Americas, and a Managing Director in the Credit Strategy & Research team. Elena is also the Chair of Moody’s Macroeconomic Board, which sets the global macroeconomic forecasts underpinning Moody’s universe of ratings. In her role leading the North and Latin America Credit Strategy & Research teams, the Global Macroeconomic Research team and the Proprietary Data Analytics team, Elena is responsible for forming house views on emerging risks, driving cross-functional alignment on key credit factors, coordinating rating approach across sectors in the Americas, and maintaining rigor in analytic frameworks. Elena leads major cross-sector outreach ... Read More

Steven T. Kargman

Founder and President of Kargman Associates

Steven T. Kargman is the Founder and President of Kargman Associates, a New York City-based strategic advisory firm specializing in providing strategic advice to clients involved in complex and challenging international restructurings, with a special focus on emerging markets around the globe. Mr. Kargman formerly served as Lead Attorney with the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the official export credit agency of the US government, and General Counsel of the New York State Financial Control Board, the chief financial oversight agency for New York City.  He has worked on numerous high-profile and complex restructuring transactions in the emerging markets, and ... Read More

Jonathan Prin

Managing Director, Head of Research, Greylock Capital

Mr. Prin joined Greylock Capital in February 2015 as Managing Director, Head of Research. Prior to joining Greylock Capital, he was a portfolio manager and member of the Global Fixed Income Group at JP Morgan Asset Management. At JP Morgan, Mr. Prin was responsible for managing and trading emerging market high yield corporate debt portfolios. Prior to joining JP Morgan in 2008, he spent three years as a credit analyst at Bear Stearns Asset Management, specializing in high-yield credits and international financial institutions. Previously, Mr. Prin was a research analyst in the Leveraged Finance Department of Credit Suisse First Boston, ... Read More