George Karalis Joins Evercore as Managing Director in its Debt Advisory Group
July 02 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Evercore (NYSE: EVR) announced today that George Karalis has
joined the Firm's Investment Banking business as a Managing
Director in the Debt Advisory Group based in London. He will be
responsible for leading Evercore's specialist market risk and
hedging advisory practice, where he will advise clients on all
aspects of market-related risks arising from foreign exchange,
interest rates, inflation and commodity prices in connection with
cross-border M&A and financing transactions. Finula Cilliers,
who founded Evercore’s market risk and hedging team in 2015, will
become a Senior Advisor and will continue to advise Evercore
clients.
Mr. Karalis brings more than 15 years of debt and market risk
advisory as well as corporate treasury experience. He joins
Evercore from Centrus Advisors, where he served as Managing
Director and was responsible for offering debt and derivatives
advisory services to clients in the infrastructure, corporates and
financial institution sectors. Prior to that, he was with Chatham
Financial, where he advised corporate and private equity clients.
Mr. Karalis started his career in corporate treasury and worked in
the Capital Markets team at National Grid, one of the biggest
corporate debt issuers in the UK as well as for a leading corporate
in the shipping sector.
"George is a highly talented professional, a leading adviser in
the market and a great addition to our team. Our market risk and
hedging team, that Finula founded, is recognised for providing high
quality strategic advice. In this highly unusual market
environment, our clients need independent advice more than ever.
Both Finula and I are delighted that George is joining Evercore to
lead the team and better serve our clients," said Swag Ganguly,
Head of Evercore's European Debt Advisory Group.
Mr. Karalis has an MBA from the Athens University of Economics
and Business and a BSc in Actuarial Science from the University of
Piraeus. He is a qualified corporate treasurer through the
Association of Corporate Treasurers in the UK.
About Evercore
Evercore (NYSE: EVR) is a premier global independent investment
banking advisory firm. We are dedicated to helping our clients
achieve superior results through trusted independent and innovative
advice on matters of strategic significance to boards of directors,
management teams and shareholders, including mergers and
acquisitions, strategic shareholder advisory, restructurings, and
capital structure. Evercore also assists clients in raising public
and private capital and delivers equity research and equity sales
and agency trading execution, in addition to providing wealth and
investment management services to high net worth and institutional
investors. Founded in 1995, the Firm is headquartered in New York
and maintains offices and affiliate offices in major financial
centers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. For more
information, please visit www.evercore.com.
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