Christopher Piccirillo

Summary

Investment banker with 14+ years of leveraged finance and debt capital markets experience. Demonstrated success in originating, structuring, underwriting, and executing senior secured loan and high-yield bridge/bond transactions for large- and mid-cap clients, with particular focus on sponsor, media/telecom, technology/software, healthcare, industrials, and consumer products sectors. Institutional term loan B product specialist. Extensive experience in negotiating and financing LBO/strategic M&A transactions, analyzing credit documentation and financial statements, and evaluating debt investments from credit and market perspectives. Consistent top performer, manager, and team player with outstanding analytical, interpersonal, and leadership skills. Promoted to Executive Director in April 2020. Experience

Mizuho Securities USA LLC New York, NY

Executive Director – Leveraged Capital Markets 9/2007 – 7/2020 Originated, structured, priced, and managed the execution of leveraged loan and high-yield bridge/bond transactions across all industries. Partnered with relationship managers to pitch new LBO/M&A ideas and win transaction mandates. Provided debt structuring solutions and capital markets guidance and recommendations to private equity sponsors and corporate banking clients. Screened existing loan portfolio for potential recapitalization and liability management opportunities. Led committee discussions with senior management and credit teams to obtain underwriting approvals. Collaborated with regulatory risk, credit, and banking teams in assessing pro forma EBITDA/QofE adjustments, financial projections, and operating assumptions in their cash flow models to substantiate debt capacity and paydown. Negotiated, reviewed, and authorized financing terms, commitment letters, and credit documentation. Managed transactions from origination to closing. Transaction experience includes mostly low-to-mid single-B credit/LBO financings for Mizuho’s top private equity clients, in addition to BB-rated corporate acquisition financings, add-ons/tuck-ins, staples, spinoffs/carve-outs, project financings, and various ancillary, best efforts opportunities and special situations. Recruited, hired, and trained new junior talent; managed a full-time bench of three vice presidents, two associates, and six analysts, serving as staffer and mentor. Designated speaker on the weekly firmwide capital markets calls, presenting latest term loan B market trends and pitch ideas in a subject matter expert capacity.

Successfully originated and underwrote more than 85 non-investment grade M&A/LBO transactions totaling more than $16 billion in committed capital, generating $260 million in total arrangement fees for the firm

Recruited by former Scotia Capital head to establish and build Mizuho’s U.S. leveraged finance platform

Joined Mizuho as an Associate; promoted to AVP in 2008; promoted to VP in 2014; promoted to Director in 2015 after undertaking additional originations and P&L responsibilities; promoted to ED in 2020

Implemented a comprehensive transaction/LBO comps database system from scratch; included 15 different metrics on leverage and valuation, in addition to bridge loan comps and detailed summaries of financing terms and capital structures

Established Mizuho’s U.S. summer internship program in 2008, which has steadily grown from just a couple of positions to a full rotational program with more than two dozen seats; Mizuho did not have any previous internship practice Scotia Capital The Bank of Nova Scotia New York, NY Investment Banking Analyst – Loan Capital Markets & Syndications 11/2005 – 9/2007

Supported senior bankers and sponsor coverage group in originating, structuring, pricing, executing, and syndicating leveraged, investment grade, and middle market debt transactions across various industries; assembled pitch books and organizational materials, launched and managed deal sites, drafted RAPs/lender presentations, information memoranda, term sheets, and invitation letters; helped prepare final allocations; multitasked several projects and/or deals at a time under short deadlines; efforts led to Scotia reaching its targeted hold level on every assigned lead left mandate

Researched and prepared deal comps to evaluate optimal capital structures and pricing for clients using a broad spectrum of debt products including: high-yield bonds, pro rata/bank loans, and first- and second-lien institutional term loans

Performed credit analysis on financing large- and mid-cap mergers and acquisitions; reviewed credit applications and financial models to assess debt capacity, sources and uses, and case sensitivities

Authored and distributed weekly leveraged loan market updates to broadcast latest market trends to all branches and relationship managers within Scotia; commentaries stimulated and drove new idea generation, pitch opportunities, and secondary trading strategies

110 River Drive South, Apt #631

Jersey City, NJ 07310

(862) 432–6750

admob0@r.postjobfree.com

Reuters Loan Pricing Corporation (LPC) New York, NY Lead Analyst – Syndicated Loan Market Analytics & League Tables Group 6/2004 – 11/2005

Managed bank client relationships with Scotia Capital, JP Morgan, Barclays, Credit Suisse, and Bear Stearns; collected and validated deal submissions from clients to assess eligibility for LPC’s quarterly U.S. league table rankings

Promoted to Lead Analyst, responsible for managing three junior analysts in the production of LPC's quarterly U.S. league table rankings published in LPC's GoldSheets and The Wall Street Journal

Developed and produced quantitative and written biweekly analyses on corporate and syndicated loan markets on LPC’s LoanConnector web portal and in LPC’s GoldSheets

Appointed to LPC’s utilities/energy industry coverage, which entailed writing featured articles and analyzing sector- specific trends, loan volume, and pricing/covenant statistics for LPC’s GoldSheets and Annual print publications

Responsibilities also included summarizing credit agreements, term sheets, information memoranda, lender presentations, and public filings to extract and analyze key loan terms and covenants Education

New York University – Stern School of Business New York, NY MBA, Accounting, Banking, and Financial Instruments & Markets; Beta Gamma Sigma International Honors Boston University – School of Management Boston, MA BSBA, Finance; minor in Economics; Cum Laude Honors; Starr Foundation Academic Scholar Professional Licenses

FINRA Series 79 & 63

Additional Skills, Interests & Projects

Bloomberg Terminal, S&P Capital IQ, LevFin Insights, S&P Leveraged Commentary & Data, Refinitiv/LoanConnector, Advantage Data, IHS Markit, FIS SyndTrak, Debtdomain, Intralinks, and Moody’s/S&P ratings platforms

Experimental cooking; oenology; wine collecting and investing; former hockey player; avid New York Rangers fan

Relational database systems; Microsoft Access VBA; SQL

Designed and developed WineTracker 3.0, a database software application that provides production metrics, scores, and professional tasting notes on more than 7,000 wines from more than 1,300 different regions around the world

Real Estate Investment Project 2020-21: Built a comprehensive database to screen for undervalued REIT opportunities; two-stage system focused on valuation, balance sheet quality and liquidity, market cap, monthly rent collections, lease terms and occupancy rates, and diversification by tenant, industry, property format, and geography

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