Thomas Keresztes
Profile
Mr. Keresztes is a member of the team at SMH Capital.
He is a veteran of domestic high yield, distressed, and international debt and equities markets.
Experienced through several cycles, he has used his corporate and international finance skills to analyze companies' value and risk-reward profile, as well as to structure and communicate characteristics of complex transactions.
Mr. Keresztes has banked the credit markets of New York and London, including HSBC, where he worked on structuring Highly Leveraged Transactions, syndications, and secondary market loan trading.
He was also General Manager of a foreign bank that actively used its balance sheet to provide international and structured trade finance for non-investment grade credits.
His work as a banker and for investor interests in distressed debt and debt renegotiations includes restructuring committees, debt-equity conversions, secondary market buy-backs, and credit analysis.
Before joining SMH Capital in 2006, Mr. Keresztes worked on the sell-side at Refco Securities in the Special Situations Group.
There he looked at less-liquid (small cap), global deep-value opportunities of public and private debt and equity.
He was in constant touch and met with a wide-range of institutional investors.
Published analyses have included companies in the following sectors: airlines, auto parts suppliers, agri-business, power producers, power distributors, chemical companies, forest products and consumer product companies.
Mr. Keresztes holds a Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Toronto and worked in the New Technologies Divisions of Texaco and Gaz De France before getting a Masters in Business Administration from New York University.
Former positions of Thomas Keresztes
Companies | Position | End |
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Texaco, Inc.
Texaco, Inc. Specialty StoresRetail Trade Texaco, Inc. explores and produces oil and natural gas. It engages in the worldwide exploration, production and marketing of crude oil, natural gas, and petroleum products. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Refco Securities LLC
Refco Securities LLC Regional BanksFinance Refco Securities LLC provides administrative and financial transaction clearing services. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Gaz de France SA
Gaz de France SA Oil & Gas PipelinesIndustrial Services Gaz de France is a government-owned natural gas supplier. The company explores for and produces natural gas; operates gas transmission, storage, and trading businesses. It has it's headquarters in Paris, France. The firm has a worldwide presence | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Sanders Morris Harris LLC (Investment Management)
Sanders Morris Harris LLC (Investment Management) Investment ManagersFinance Sanders Morris Harris LLC (Investment Management) (SMH-IM) is the investment management division of Sanders Morris Harris LLC, a registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2000 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tectonic Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: TECTP). SMH-IM provides advisory services to individuals, pooled investments, plan sponsors, trusts, estates, corporations, institutions, and other businesses. | Analyst-Fixed Income | 2011-04-19 |
Training of Thomas Keresztes
University of Toronto | Undergraduate Degree |
New York University | Masters Business Admin |
Experiences
Positions held
Linked companies
Private companies | 4 |
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Sanders Morris Harris LLC (Investment Management)
Sanders Morris Harris LLC (Investment Management) Investment ManagersFinance Sanders Morris Harris LLC (Investment Management) (SMH-IM) is the investment management division of Sanders Morris Harris LLC, a registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2000 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tectonic Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: TECTP). SMH-IM provides advisory services to individuals, pooled investments, plan sponsors, trusts, estates, corporations, institutions, and other businesses. | Finance |
Refco Securities LLC
Refco Securities LLC Regional BanksFinance Refco Securities LLC provides administrative and financial transaction clearing services. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. | Finance |
Gaz de France SA
Gaz de France SA Oil & Gas PipelinesIndustrial Services Gaz de France is a government-owned natural gas supplier. The company explores for and produces natural gas; operates gas transmission, storage, and trading businesses. It has it's headquarters in Paris, France. The firm has a worldwide presence | Industrial Services |
Texaco, Inc.
Texaco, Inc. Specialty StoresRetail Trade Texaco, Inc. explores and produces oil and natural gas. It engages in the worldwide exploration, production and marketing of crude oil, natural gas, and petroleum products. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA. | Retail Trade |
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