Cantor Fitzgerald Europe Continues Its Expansion
in the UK With Key Hires
April 20, 2010 11:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time
LONDON--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Cantor Fitzgerald announced today its continued expansion into the
Fixed Income, High Yield & Leveraged Finance market in Europe. Sebastian Bourgeois, Catherine Da Silva JoJo
Thirasilpa join a growing team strengthening Cantor’s global presence.
“We are excited to have seasoned industry professionals like Sebastian, JoJo and Catherine join our team in the
U.K. Their skills, experience and relationships will help us leverage new business in the European marketplace thus
expanding our client offering and extending our market share,” said Elon Spar, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald Europe.
Sebastien Bourgeois joins as Managing Director, head of Leveraged Credit Research, from Cheyne Special
Situations where he was a Portfolio Manager focusing on credit investments, both performing leverage loans and
bonds (European issuers with an emphasis on heavy industrials and companies linked to commodities such as paper,
chemicals or oil services) and special situations such as US subprime real estate bonds or private equity in windfarm
developers. Earlier he worked in the European Special Situations Group at Goldman Sachs focusing on distressed
investments, in the UK and also in France. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs on the London Commodities
desk.
He obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and is also a graduate from the Ecole Normale
Supérieure (Ulm) and HEC School of Management.
“Sebastien brings an enormous wealth of expertise that has added exponentially to our client facing business already
in his short time at Cantor. We are very excited to have him on board,” said James Franz, head of Fixed Income
Leveraged Finance in London.
Catherine Da Silva joins as a Managing Director on the High Yield, Distressed and Leveraged loan team focusing on
UK and Continental European accounts. Previously, she was at Lehman Brothers