BACKGROUND INFORMATION
WesBruin Capital is a well-established international financial services firm with specialist knowledge in emerging and "pioneer" markets distressed and undervalued sovereign debt instruments (categorized as “exotic” and “hyper-exotic” in the global marketplace). The corporation’s head office is located in Old Town – Alexandria, Virginia, neighboring Washington DC. WesBruin maintains important strategic affiliations in Washington DC, Miami, London, Madrid and Lisbon and it enjoys long standing working relationships with many well-known investment houses, commercial banks and fund managers throughout the United States and Europe. WesBruin’s principals have extensive backgrounds in international finance, particularly with respect to the lesser-developed economies of Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. The company’s managerial team brings a wealth of experience from world-class financial institutions such as Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase and G.E. Capital.
WesBruin’s client base is highly diverse and worldwide in nature. It includes various banks, foreign government agencies, export oriented corporations, trade finance specialists and high net worth investors. The firm’s client pool, in combination with its innovative financial techniques, local country contacts and extensive networks in capital markets, international banking and trade finance, allows it to consistently identify and add value to unique, high yield investment and arbitrage opportunities, found in a significant number of developing and lesser-developed nations.
The President of WesBruin Capital is Henry Avis-Vieira. Mr. Avis-Vieira has over twenty five years of managerial experience in international finance with several major banks and Wall Street firms, including Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase and Garvin Guy Butler / Garban. His concentration is in Latin America and Africa. He is one of the world’s most respected authorities on emerging markets exotic and hyper-exotic debt issues and provides commentary to “El Exportador”, a prestigious Madrid based trade finance journal. Mr. Avis-Vieira is often quoted in The Economist / Economist Intelligence Unit, Financial Times of London, The Wall Street Journal / Dow Jones, International Herald Tribune, Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, Forbes and International Financing Review (IFR).
