Led by Carlos Abadi, DecisionBoundaries is a financial engineering boutique Fluent in Complexity (TM) focused on delivering sophisticated financial advisory solutions in the fields of financial restructuring, litigation support, and financial engineering.
2. About
DecisionBoundaries
DB’s skill set is superior
to that of the typical
CPA-centered
financial advisor
DB combines
academic rigor with
30 years of
experience executing
complex transactions
in five continents
DB is an international
boutique financial
advisory firm
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3. DB is data and
technology-driven
DB is creative
DB is focused
DB is connected
DB is international
DB is accountable
only to the client
DB’s leadership has a 30-year
background in
international/cross-border
investment banking
About DecisionBoundaries
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DB is academically rigorous
(Cont’d)
4. DB is academically
rigorous
Fluency in financial theory, applied
finance, financial engineering, data
science, economics, econometrics,
and mathematics
Very different skill set than that of the
typical CPA-centric financial
advisory firm
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DB is data and
technology-driven
Capability to gather and interpret
vast amounts of data which allows
for the incorporation of a much
greater number of variables in our
analyses
Fluency in machine languages
(Python, R, Matlab, TensorFlow, and
LaTeX – other advisory firms rely on
Microsoft Excel for their analyses),
enabling non-linear analyses which
result in more insightful conclusions
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DB is creative
DB’s leadership has a history of
“thinking outside the box” and was
a pioneer in many
markets/structures/transactions
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DB is focused
We do not advise clients beyond our
core areas of expertise
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Our Edge
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5. Our Edge
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(Cont’d)
DB is accountable only
to the client
We are consulting, not testifying
experts
Our analyses are covered by the
attorney-client privilege
We have the flexibility to put forward
advocating theories
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DB is connected
DB has excellent connections in the
hedge funds and private equity
communities
DB has relevant connections in the
academic community
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DB is international
We have 30 years of experience in
financial transactions in five
continents
We are fluent in several languages
We are familiar with business
practices and accounting systems in
several countries around the world
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7. $200
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Traded over $200
billion in fixed
income
instruments and
their derivatives,
both as a
principal and an
agent
30-year
investment
banking career
Advised on dozens
of transactions worth
over $25 billion in
aggregate
$25
Leadership
DB is led by Carlos
Abadi, Managing
Director
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9. Leadership
(Cont’d)
Professional Association Memberships
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American Institute of
Certified Public
Accountants (AICPA)
Association of Insolvency
and Restructuring Advisors
(AIRA )
International Association
for Quantitative Finance
(IAQF)
American Finance
Association (AFA )
Global Association of Risk
Professionals (GARP)
The Econometric Society American Economics
Association (AEA)
American Mathematical
Society (AMS)
National Association of
Mathematics (NAM)
Data Science
Association (DSA)
Institute of Industrial and
Systems Engineers (IISE)
The Institute for Operations
Research and the Management
Sciences (INFORMS)
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Member Associate Member Senior Member
11. Pioneer in the development in the trading and swap market for Emerging Markets Debt,
following the 1982 Mexican default;
Leadership
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(Cont’d)
Pioneer in the development and trading of derivatives on Emerging Markets Debt;
Executed $4 bb liability management transaction on behalf of a Middle Eastern
Central Bank;
Buy-side Advisor to MENA Bank in European Bank Acquisition;
Financial Advisor to dissident bondholder group of Oi S.A. (Brazil), the
largest ever corporate default in Latin America;
Financial Advisor to Autlan, a publicly-listed Mexican conglomerate on
covenant relief with respect to $80mm bank debt;
Financial Advisor and Placement Agent in first-ever non-dilutive,
Basel III-compliant, CET1 $100 mm Capital Increase for EM Bank;
Chapter 11 Plan Solicitation Agent ($220 mm) for Trump
Ocean Club (Panama), the first ever Chapter 11 filing for a
Latin American issuer;
Professional
Accomplishments
12. Creator of $1.2 bb “Abadi Plan” (incorporated into the Refco Disclosure Statement) as an
enhancement to the recovery of Refco Capital Markets’ customers.
Leadership
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(Cont’d)
Buy-side advisor to WL Ross in European Bank Acquisition;
Sell-side M&A advisor to mid-size Brazilian bank.
Financial Advisor to and Lead Negotiator for the Ad-Hoc Committee of Tier 2
Creditors of Allied Irish Bank (GBP700 mm Subordinated Liabilities Order
litigation);
Financial Advisor to the $320 mm Ad-Hoc Creditors Committee of BII
Creditanstalt, Cayman subsidiary of Hypovereinsbank;
Financial Advisor to the Province of Mendoza, Argentina in the
restructuring of $500 mm bank debt;
Financial Advisor to and Exclusive Agent for the Foreign Trade
Bank of Bulgaria (Bulbank) in the repurchase of $300 mm pre-
Bradt debt;
Financial Advisor to and Execution Agent for the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan repurchase of a substantial portion of its
pre-Brady debt.
Professional
Accomplishments (Cont’d)
13. Visit Us
ADDRESS
590 Madison Avenue
21st Floor New York, NY 10022
PHONE
646-415-9472
E-MAIL
cabadi@decisionboundaries.com
WEBSITE
http://decisionboundaries.com
Carlos Abadi
Managing Director
DecisionBoundaries LLC
LINKEDIN
https://www.linkedin.com/company/decisionboundaries/
MOBILE
917-309-5588