Kayvan J. Fateh-Tehrani, Managing Director
Kayvan is a Managing Director of the Silverfern Group and
brings over 20 years of Investment Banking experience to
the Silverfern team.
Kayvan has extensive experience in providing Mergers & Acquisitions
advice to financial institutions in a number of verticals,
including Insurance, Asset Management, Specialty/Consumer
Finance, Broker-Dealers, and Wealth Management. He
has completed over 40 transactions representing over $40
billion in transaction value, advising on many of the largest
insurance mergers and demutualizations in the last two decades.
Prior to joining Silverfern, Kayvan was a Managing Director
at Bear Stearns, where he covered the insurance and asset
management sectors. He originated and financed several
of the largest leverage buyout transactions in specialty
insurance and asset management on behalf of the firm’s
private equity clients; including the LBOs of LPL Financial
and Direct General Insurance. In addition, he spearheaded
the FIG Private Equity Transaction Development function,
covering over 100 private equity firms and their financial
institution portfolio companies.
Prior to Bear Stearns, Kayvan was Director of Financial Institutions
Americas at WestLB AG, providing the bank’s balance-sheet
counterparties with strategic advice. Before WestLB,
he was a Vice President at Credit Suisse covering global
insurance companies, and a Vice President at Lehman Brothers
covering Specialty Finance companies. Kayvan began
his investment banking career at Merrill Lynch & Co.
where he spent five years specializing in financial institution
Mergers & Acquisitions, and in providing collateral valuation
expertise to Merrill Lynch Mortgage Capital.
Based in New York, Kayvan co-leads Silverfern’s Financial
Institutions merchant banking business with a focus on Insurance,
Specialty Finance and Asset Management.
Kayvan earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from
Cornell University. |
