BTIG has named Thomas Roh as its new managing director within its investment banking debt capital advisory group.
Roh brings “extensive product expertise” across 25 years of industry experience, BTIG said, in consumer and commercial capital markets, with a focus on asset securitisation and specialty finance broadly. On expectations for growth of debt capital markets over the next year, Roh told The Desk, “Rate stabilisation, strong housing numbers, and healthy consumer balance sheets all bode well for consumer lending origination, coupled with ABS and mortgages providing strong relative value for institutional investors.
“We also expect an increase in esoteric asset securitisation including but not limited to clean-energy, litigation finance and more commercial receivables,” Roh added.
Roh began in fixed income investment banking at Lehman Brothers before moving to JP Morgan Securities, where he stayed for five-and-a-half years, ultimately becoming vice president. He then transitioned to buy side roles focused on credit portfolio financing and commercial loan origination, returning to investment banking in 2020 at Brownstone Investment Group.
In August 2021, Roh joined Finitive, a data-driven private credit marketplace, as managing director, and most recently worked at Odeon Capital Management, where he led the consumer and commercial finance coverage effort for the advisory team.
BTIG CEO and co-founder Scott Kovalik said: “We are confident that Roh’s acumen will support the group’s focus on originating, executing and closing transactions for corporate issuers and financial sponsors.”
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