Philippe Chryssicopoulos
Director/Head of Shipping EMEA
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Philippe is a Director in the Transportation team with 11 years of investment banking experience. Since joining Merrill Lynch's investment banking division in 1998 in the Consumer Products team in New York, Philippe also spent over 6 years in the Corporate Finance team in London focusing on a variety of equity, equity-linked and debt financing transactions. He is now leads the maritime transportation sector coverage in EMEA and also focuses on the Transport Infrastructure sectors - namely, toll-roads, airports and ports.
Recent relevant transactions include the $256m IPO of Crude Carriers, $80m add-on equity offering of Navios Maritime Partners, AP Moller Maersk's $1.6bn add-on equity offering, NYK's $1.3bn add-on equity offering, the $400m secured high yield offering for Navios Maritime Holdings, Cintra's €1.2 billion reverse merger with Grupo Ferrovial, the $80m at the market equity offering for Ship Finance, Sacyr's sale of Itinere Infraestructuras for €7.9bn, TUI's sale of Hapag-Lloyd for €4.5bn, the $4.3bn IPO of DP World - to name a few.
He holds a BSc in International Economics from Georgetown University and is fluent in French and Greek.