Thomas Keresztes

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.