Carlos is a 30-year veteran international investment banker who pioneered a number of financial products, such as the trading and swapping of emerging markets
sovereign loans in the wake of the 1982 Mexican debt crisis, the trading market for derivatives on emerging markets bonds and loans, the first non-dilutive CET1
transaction compliant with Basel III rules, and the first Chapter 11 filing for a Latin American issuer.
Creative Thinking
Strategy
Innovation
Credentials
Academic Credentials
B.Sc./M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de Buenos Aires
MBA (Finance) from Cornell University
Academic Credentials
Financial Engineering (Columbia)
Data Science (Johns Hopkins)
Machine Learning (Stanford)
Professional Certifications
Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) – (AICPA)
Representative Engagements
Human Languages
- English (fluent)
- Spanish (fluent)
- French (fluent)
- Italian (conversational)
- Portuguese (conversational)
- German (conversational)
- Arabic (conversational)
- Hebrew (conversational)
Machine Languages
- Python
- R
- Matlab
- TensorFlow
- LaTeX
Accomplishments
Chapter 11 Plan Solicitation Agent ($220 mm) for Trump Ocean Club (Panama), the first ever Chapter 11 filing for a Latin American issuer.
Executed $4 bb liability management transaction on behalf of a foreign Central Bank.
Financial Advisor to and Lead Negotiator for the Ad-Hoc Committee of Tier 2 Creditors of Allied Irish Bank (GBP700 mm Subordinated Liabilities Order litigation).
Creator of $1.2 bb “Abadi Plan” (incorporated into the Refco Disclosure Statement) as an enhancement to the recovery of Refco Capital Markets’ customers.
Financial Advisor to the $320 mm Ad-Hoc Creditors Committee of BII Creditanstalt, Cayman subsidiary of Hypovereinsbank.
2017
2016-7
2015
2014
2014
2013
2013
2011
2006
2003
2002
1993-98
1994
1993
1986–91
Financial Advisor to dissident bondholder group of Oi S.A. (Brazil), the largest ever corporate default in Latin America.
Sell-side M&A advisor to mid-size Brazilian bank.
Financial Advisor to Autlan, a publicly-listed Mexican conglomerate on covenant relief with respect to $80mm bank debt.
Buy-side Advisor to MENA Bank in European Bank Acquisition.
Financial Advisor and Placement Agent in first-ever non-dilutive, Basel III-compliant, CET1 $100 mm Capital Increase for EM Bank.
Buy-side advisor to WL Ross in European Bank Acquisition.
Financial Advisor to the Province of Mendoza, Argentina in the restructuring of $500 mm bank debt.
Pioneer in the development and trading of derivatives on Emerging Markets Debt.
Financial Advisor to and Exclusive Agent for the Foreign Trade Bank of Bulgaria (Bulbank) in the repurchase of $300 mm pre-Bradt debt.
Financial Advisor to and Execution Agent for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan repurchase of a substantial portion of its pre-Brady debt.
Pioneer in the development in the trading and swap market for Emerging Markets Debt, following the 1982 Mexican default.
Articles from Carlos
An Exploration of the Consequences of Deviations From the Absolute Priority Rule
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December 19, 2020
Lebanon: The Politics of Sovereign Debt Default
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July 29, 2020
The Secondary Market as an Expediter of the Sovereign Debt Restructuring Process
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June 8, 2020
Distress Odyssey: Exploring a Common Tri-Party Model
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June 4, 2020
What Is the Optimal Fiscal Policy Response to the COVID-19 Recession?
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April 14, 2020
Lebanon: Financial and Economic Restructuring (Video)
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April 8, 2020
What Shape the Recovery?
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March 31, 2020
Markets in the Times of Corona: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach
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March 24, 2020
Collective Action Clauses: An Analytical Model
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March 19, 2020
A Skeptic’s Guide to the Unusual Behavior of Litigation Agents
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January 7, 2020
The Odyssey of Financial Restructuring Under the US Bankruptcy Code
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December 15, 2019
Hyperbolic Discounting
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December 9, 2019
The Iran Agent Playbook (Updated)
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December 1, 2019
Argentina DSA (Continued): The (Non-)Use of Machine Learning Models
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November 25, 2019
A Road Map to Argentina-IMF- Private Creditors Negotiations
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November 17, 2019
New York’s Expert Discovery Rules Are Antiquated and Hurt My Business
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November 10, 2019
Both Argentina and Its Creditors Need to Play Their A-Teams
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October 27, 2019
Q: What Happens When a Blockchain Company Fails in the US? A: A Nightmare
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October 20, 2019
Debt Sustainability in Lebanon: an Econometric Approach
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October 16, 2019
The State of Private Equity: The Outlook is Bright and Firms Need to Evolve Accordingly
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October 13, 2019
Untangling the paradox of Lebanon’s Eurobond Placement
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October 6, 2019
The Problem of the Obsessive Litigant
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September 29, 2019
Yes, an Investigation Is a “Thing of Value”
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September 23, 2019
The Lure of the Cybersecurity Practice and a Proposed Policy Response
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September 22, 2019
Credit Spreads on Defaultable Sovereign Debt
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September 18, 2019
Case Study: Fifth Time Was a Charm
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September 15, 2019
Machine Learning in Finance: The Present
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September 8, 2019
Modern Monetary Theory (by Articoolo)
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September 8, 2019
A Monetarists’ Recoil
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September 1, 2019
On investing Biases and Staying Ahead of the Machine
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August 25, 2019
Restructuring Work Is on the Way –– With No Guilt
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August 18, 2019
Optimal Sovereign Debt Restructuring
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August 14th, 2019
Case Study: When the answer is Not in the Numbers
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August 11, 2019
A Market-Based Approach to the Mass Shooting Crisis
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August 4, 2019
Will Libra Be the Next Argentine Peso?
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July 28, 2019
Anti-Activism Defense: Accurately Modeling the Activists’ Decision Breakeven
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July 15, 2019
Ponzi Financial Dynamics
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June 5, 2019
Beyond Fair Value
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May 9, 2019
The Economics of Litigation
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April 24, 2019
Fairness in Talmudic “Bankruptcy Law”
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April 17, 2019
Assessing Damages in Antitrust Litigation
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April 17, 2019
