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Jack Wagler

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Profile

  • Senior executive with more than 27 years of experience establishing and advising US and international specialty finance companies from startups to Fortune 500 firms

  • Advisor on: corporate establishment, restructuring of specialty finance companies, M&A, capital raising, credit, cash management, investor and rating agency relations

  • Extensive experience working with: private equity, hedge funds, law firms, accounting firms, banks, rating agencies, institutional investors and corporates

Expertise

  • Captive and independent finance company establishment and optimization

  • Due Diligence

  • Restructuring

  • Structured Finance

  • Investment Banking

  • Securitization

  • M&A

Representative accomplishments
Select Prior Employers

  • EY (Ernst & Young) – Specialty Finance Advisory Practice

  • PNC Bank – Financial Services, Advisory & Banking Group

  • Intermedium Financial (now owned by StoneCastle Cash Management)

  • Wachovia Securities (now Wells Fargo Securities)

  • BancAmerica Securities

  • ABN AMRO Bank

  • Led a $300 million, structured recapitalization of a distressed international container leasing company, which involved a complete restructuring and refinancing of the company

  • Brought in to lead the successful workout and exit of a $115 million, agented, distressed, corporate revolver for an equipment finance company

  • Established a new Specialty Finance Advisory practice for EY

  • Founding CEO of private equity backed fintech business

  • Led Wachovia Securities Structured Asset Finance Group’s commercial equipment, transportation leasing, operating lease and structured tax teams

  • Auto finance captive establishment design for one of the largest auto dealer groups

  • Optimization and restructuring of an established commercial captive finance company

  • Structured recapitalization of a distressed international container leasing company

  • Structured M&A deal that contained a unique tax monetization structure

  • Derived, developed, and implemented structural innovation “firsts” in rated transactions:

    • “Structured equity” that for finance companies allows private equity upside, with downside protections

    • “Plug and play” lockbox/intercreditor that allows new parties to be added to transactions with no approval of existing participants 

    • “Golden share” structure to provide additional bankruptcy protection in structured deals

    • Senior/sub and wrapped transactions with balance guarantee swaps written directly, and solely, to the transaction

    • Asset-backed leveraged lease where, in addition to the debt, the rated tax equity was structured using securitization technology

    • “Overcoming Octagon,” International Financial Law Review, October 1996.  Devised a solution to overcome the Octagon problem, a case limiting securitization for non-investment grade companies located in the 10th Circuit

Education

  • University of Wisconsin

    • Bachelor of Arts

    • Juris Doctor in Law

    • Master of Science in International Business

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