UMBERTO G. SERRANO

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EXPERIENCE

****-**** ********* **** **, New York City

Director – Corporate Credit Team, Group Head

Managed the Corporate Credit Team covering U.S. corporates and U.S. subsidiaries of European corporates for

loans, bonds, foreign exchange and swap trading limits

Expert in the Oil & Gas industry (Oil Services, Upstream Exploration & Production and Mid-Stream MLPs),

with industry experience in Chemicals, Power and Gaming

Regular interaction with the Origination Team, Trading Desk, Investors, Auditors and Bank Regulators

Extensive and broad credit experience in Corporate Analysis, Derivatives and Structured Finance transactions,

including setting up the processes to conduct deal analysis and portfolio risk management

Prior to current position, responsible for the risk management with trading recommendation duties of a $1.6

billion arbitrage CLO/CDO portfolio

Recommended investments to credit committees, conducted client due diligences and modeled cash flows

2006-2007 CANARAS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC, New York City

Senior Credit Analyst / Structurer - Collateralized Debt Obligations Fund

Responsible for the Oil & Gas and Power sectors for leveraged loans and bonds, of reviewing and analyzing

credit agreements, commodity hedges in deals and of recommending investments to the investment committee

Sample of investments: Atlas Pipeline, Calpine, Connacher Oil & Gas, Covanta Energy, Enterprise Products

Partners, IFM (U.S.) Colonial Pipeline 2, NRG Energy, TPF Generation and Western Refining

STANDARD & POOR’S RATING SERVICES, New York City

2001-2006

Director – Structured Finance, Collateralized Debt Obligations Group

Lead analyst on over 90 CDO transactions with rated debt in excess of US$40 billion

Transaction types: CDOs of ABS, Arbitrage Corporate CLOs/CBOs, CDOs of RMBS, Hybrid CDOs (cash and

synthetic), CDOs structured for money market investors, CDO Retranchings, TRS and future flow transactions

Significant experience in cash flow modeling, transaction legal documentation including interest rate, basis and

currency swaps, interest rate caps and credit default swaps

2000-2001 MORGAN STANLEY, New York City

Associate – Oil & Gas Corporate Finance Group

Involved in several domestic and international transactions in the Oil & Gas sector including: mergers &

acquisitions, high yield offerings, equity offerings and structured finance reserve securitization transactions

Extensive valuation and modeling experience including: Fixed income modeling, DCF analysis, break-up

valuations and comparable trading and transaction multiples

Experienced in structuring transactions, reviewing complex legal documentation and with commodity hedges

1999-2000 LEHMAN BROTHERS, New York City

Associate – Oil & Gas Corporate Finance Group

Covered the domestic and international Oil & Gas industry (Exploration & Production and Mid -stream)

Performed DCF analysis, break-up valuations and comparable trading and transaction multiples

1996-1997 WESTLB AG, New York City

Associate – Latin America Corporate Finance Group

Wrote information memoranda, performed valuations, prepared data rooms, and reviewed sale and purchase

agreements for merger & acquisition and strategic acquirers/joint venture transactions

Coverage: Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Chile. Oil & Gas, Power, Auto and Consumer Products

EDUCATION

COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL, New York City

MBA, Specialization: Finance and Accounting

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, MA

Juris Doctor Degree (J.D.), Specialization: Corporate and Business Law

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City

Bachelor of Arts Degree (B.A.), Major: American History, (Dean’s List)

OTHER INFORMATION

Fluent in Spanish and proficient in Excel, Power Point, Word, Bloomberg and on-line research products

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