Kevin Degan
Managing Director
Seabury
Kevin Degen joined the Seabury Group in April 2000, and has over 20 years of transportation investment banking experience. At Seabury, Mr. Degen has played a leading role in Seabury's largest capital raising transactions including arranging for Northwest Airlines $750 million exit equity financing and $1.225 billion of term debt financing. He also played a key roles negotiating as M&A advisor the US Airways merger with America West Airlines as well as securing for US Airways $865 million of equity financing, and $1.7 billion of debt and asset sales financing for the merger. Mr. Degen was also a senior member of the Seabury advisory team that arranged for Air Canada a Canadian $850 million rights offering and Canadian $250 million equity investment. Another significant transaction was arranging for a $240 million equity investment and $1.0 billion ATSB loan for US Airways. He has also worked on smaller capital raising and M&A transactions.
Prior to joining Seabury, Mr. Degen was a Senior Vice President in Investment Banking at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. At DLJ, Mr. Degen covered a wide variety of companies in the transportation sector including airlines, air freight, logistics, railroad and trucking companies.
While at DLJ, Mr. Degen completed transactions across the investment banking spectrum, including public offerings of investment-grade and high-yield debt, initial public offerings of equity, mergers and acquisitions, and leveraged recapitalizations. Mr. Degen also has extensive aviation investment banking experience at Lehman Brothers and PaineWebber, where he successfully completed a wide variety of transactions including both aircraft financing and corporate capital raising. During that time, Mr. Degen completed transactions for, among many others, American Airlines, Atlas Air, Boeing, Comair, Federal Express and Norfolk Southern.
Mr. Degen received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University. Mr. Degen is a NASD Registered Representative, and is Series 7 and 63 qualified
About Seabury Aviation & Aerospace LLC
Seabury Aviation & Aerospace LLC is the principal unit of the Seabury Group and is the leading independent investment banking and advisory group serving aviation, aerospace, and cargo on a global basis. That group’s practices span investment banking, corporate transformation, and management consulting. Seabury Group was awarded Airfinance Journal’s “North American Deal of the Year” for the equity rights offering the firm structured and placed for Northwest Airlines in 2007. With more than 150 professionals dedicated to aviation and aerospace, Seabury has now advised over 200 clients worldwide in over 450 engagements spanning Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. For more information, please see: http://www.seaburygroup.com
