Carlos Abadi
Carlos Abadi was born in Buenos Aires in 1960. He is married to Barbara Abadi and has two sons. He graduated from the Lycee Franco-Argentin Jean Marmoz in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1977. Carlos Abadi earned a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1983. He also earned a Masters of Business Administration and Finance from Cornell University in 1985.
Carlos Abadi dedicated his 20 year career to creating financial solutions and offering expert advice to emerging markets, governments, banks and private sector companies operating in volatile, and sometimes chaotic, financial environments. As a result of Mr. Abadi’s extensive mathematical training, his approach is always based on a solid analytical debt valuation methodology and risk/reward evaluations.
Mr. Abadi has played an active role in the emerging markets debt trading arena since the first Mexican syndicated loans started to change hands in the wake of Mexico’s 1982 default. Since then, he has specialized every major restructured sovereign debt instruments issued since 1985.
Carlos Abadi established Abadi & Co. in 1991. Throughout the now legendary "Tequila" and Russian crises of the 1990’s, Abadi & Co. remained a consistent and steady force in the emerging markets debt class.
Over the past two decades, Carlos Abadi has advised emerging market governments, banks, and private sector companies on liability management, debt-to-equity conversions, debt buybacks, debt restructurings and debt monetization programs.
In the domestic US market, Carlos Abadi devised "The Abadi Plan" in conjunction with Dresdner Kleinwort Prime Brokerage. The Abadi Plan was universally recognized as a creative and pragmatic way to enhance the recoveries that creditors stood to receive under Refco's plan of reorganization. Prior to Refco’s abrupt bankruptcy, its Capital Markets unit was an important prime broker for many emerging markets firms worldwide as well as banker to numerous high net worth clients overseas. Carlos Abadi continues as an active Board member of the Refco Litigation Trust.
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