Fernando Cininni

Biography

Mr. Fernando Cininni serves as Managing Director of International Finance Participation Trust 2001 and 2004. Mr. Cininni serves as Managing Director and Co-Head, B Loans of Cordiant Emerging Loan Fund III and IV. He serves as a Managing Director at Cordiant Capital Inc. He joined Cordiant Capital in 2002. Mr. Cininni combines an in depth understanding of North American corporate debt markets with experience in Emerging Markets that stretches over twenty years. He had a long career of increasing responsibilities with the Bank of Montreal, where Mr. Cininni managed over USD 1.5 billion in Emerging Markets debt and syndicated over USD 1 billion in corporate credits. In Latin America, he managed corporate accounts, restructured sovereign debt, and also completed a two year stint with the bank’s subsidiary. Mr. Cininni’s also had exposure to Eastern Europe, restructuring Poland’s foreign debt, among others. His domestic experience involved syndicating corporate loans, mergers and acquisitions, and project finance. He has substantial expertise in corporate credit assessment, in general, and capital markets, as it pertains to Emerging Markets, in particular, in sectors ranging from banking, telecommunications, oil & gas, power and manufacturing. Mr. Cininni earned an M.B.A. and B.Sc (Geology) from McGill University.

Research Interest

corporate accounts, restructured sovereign debt