President, Abadi & Co.

Carlos Abadi has 20 years of expertise building financial solutions and providing expert advice to emerging markets, governments, banks and private sector companies managing in volatile, and sometimes chaotic, financial environments. Due to Carlos Abadi’s extensive mathematical training, his approach is always based on a solid analytical debt valuation methodology and risk/reward evaluations. His company, Abadia and Company, remains a stable force during the volatile economic crisis of the 2008 and beyond.

Carlos Abadi 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.

During the collapse of Refco, Carlos Abadi was instrumental in saving millions of dollars for investors who would have otherwise lost their money. In the domestic US market, Carlos Abadi developed 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 is currently a Board member of the Refco Litigation Trust.