Credit and Fixed Income Biographies
Kevin Reynolds
Managing Director
Head of Global Capital Markets
kevin.reynolds@cowen.com
Kevin Reynolds is Head of Global Capital Markets at Cowen and Company. Mr. Reynolds has more than 24 years experience in the financial services industry focused on Credit Research, Bankruptcy and Distressed Trading, Emerging Market Debt Capital Markets, and Corporate Asset Backed Securitizations.
Prior to joining Cowen, Mr. Reynolds was Co-Head of Capital Markets Origination at Gleacher & Company and had spent 12 years at UBS in a number of senior roles. He ran the UBS Corporate ABS business where he structured and executed the first whole business securitization for a tender of a public company, NUCO2. He was also Global Co-Head of Liability Exchange offer and Corporate Recapitalizations. Under his management UBS executed well over 200 separate open market repurchases, wavier and consent solicitations, tenders, and exchanges in the U.S. Domestic, European, and Emerging Markets. These recapitalizations included industries in High Yield and Investment Grade issuers. Most notably was the development of the private exchange for convertible instruments and UBS' role as a lead in the Argentina debt exchange. Mr. Reynolds also has held senior management roles in emerging market debt capital markets and syndicate. During that time UBS was a significant presence in emerging market corporate debt issuance and was awarded IFR Deal of the Year for executions in Latin America, Emerging Europe and Asia. Mr. Reynolds spent the first half of his career in the investment banking industry in other senior positions in high yield credit research, bankruptcy and distressed credit trading, and inter-capital arbitrage.
Mr. Reynolds earned a B.A. from Boston College in 1979 and his M.B.A. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 1984.
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Len Sheer
Managing Director
Head of Debt Capital Markets
len.sheer@cowen.com
Len Sheer is Head of Debt Capital Markets at Cowen and Company. Mr. Sheer has 16 years of experience in the financial services industry. His background includes high yield, private placements, liability management and merger and acquisition advisory roles in a wide variety of industries.
Prior to joining Cowen, Mr. Sheer was a Managing Director in Debt Capital Markets Origination Group at Gleacher & Company focusing on high yield financings and liability management transactions. In addition, Mr. Sheer held positions as a Senior Analyst at Pardus Capital, a hedge fund based in NYC focused on investing in debt and equity, and as a Vice President at Lehman Brothers, focusing on M&A advisory assignments.
Mr. Sheer earned his BS in Finance and Economics from Babson College.
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Amrit Agrawal
Managing Director
Head of TMT Capital Markets
amrit.agrawal@cowen.com
Amrit Agrawal is responsible for advising corporate clients across the capital structure, including acquisition finance. He is focused on equity, convertible, and fixed income origination and execution, including public and private placements, exchange offers, consent solicitations, and tender offers. Mr. Agrawal has originated/executed more than $30 billion of lead-managed investment banking transactions during his 18 year career on Wall Street. He has advised numerous management teams and boards of directors on complex corporate finance topics. Mr. Agrawal has long-standing senior corporate, private equity, and venture capital relationships in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
Prior to joining Cowen, Mr. Agrawal was managing director and co-head of TMT Strategic Finance at Bear Stearns. He helped establish the firm's strategic finance business for clients in the TMT industry verticals. He was also responsible for U.S. capital markets business for clients based in India and China. Prior to Bear Stearns he worked in the capital markets group at Bankers Trust.
Mr. Agrawal has a bachelor's degree in finance and accounting from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
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