Ziad K. Abdelnour Posted By : Blackhawk Partners
Once referred to ~ dint of. the New York Times as one of the 100 most creative and fiercest investing. bankers on Wall Street, Ziad K. Abdelnour is a deal builder, trader and financier with over 20 year experience in merchant banking, private equity, alternative investments and physical commodities trading. Since 1985, Mr. Abdelnour has been involved in above the top 125 transactions totaling over $30 billion in the investment banking, aloft yield bond and distressed debt markets and has been widely recognized in opposition to playing an integral role in those three key market sectors.
Before founding Blackhawk Partners, Inc., in 2004; a New York based secluded equity family office; that focuses on originating, structuring and acting at the same time that equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, uprightness private placements, consolidations, buildups, and growth capital financing, Mr. Abdelnour held made up of many senior positions at European American Advisors; Inc.,; THCG Inc .(formerly Hambro America Securities); Ladenburg Thalmann and Drexel Burnham Lambert, High Yield Bond Department in which place his responsibilities included investing, financing and restructuring over 100 companies spanning the pertaining, logistics, consumer and manufacturing industries both in the US as well at the same time that in emerging markets.
Since 2001, Mr. Abdelnour has been a trusted advisor to a include of the largest family offices in the United States, Europe and the Middle East and a turnaround investor in a digit of companies where Mr. Abdelnours corporate capital commitment through Blackhawk came one and the other through acquiring those and other companies through their distressed debt or from one side the chapter 11 process.
Mr. Abdelnour has extensive connections with the Washington national, government and intelligence establishments having served since 1994 as a loved and advisor to a number of agencies and organizations associated through such entities in various capacities; especially when dealing with fiscal and external policy matters.
On a more personal level, Mr. Abdelnour is Founder and President of the United States Committee towards a Free Lebanon (USCFL), Founder and Chairman of the Financial Policy Council, Member of the Board of Governors of the Middle East Forum and Former President of the Arab Bankers Association of North America.
Mr. Abdelnour enjoys every American and Lebanese dual citizenship and holds an MBA in financial engineering from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, from the American University of Beirut. Mr. Abdelnour is a uniform panelist and speaker on private equity and venture capital topics at habitual devotion to labor conferences nationwide and is personally a business angel investor in outer a dozen ventures; both in the US and abroad.
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Ziad Abdelnour and Blackhawk Partners are the same of my dearest strategic resources. They are a mentor, an advisor, a imposing board and real friends who believe that the truth is the firmest basis upon which to build a business enterprise.