EXPERTISE
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IPOs, and Securities Offerings
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Investment Banking
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SPACs
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Block Trades
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Margin Loans
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Corporate Equity Derivatives
Craig Coben | SPAC and Investment Banking Expert Witness | SEDA Experts
Craig Coben has over 25 years of financial industry experience serving as the Vice Chairman of Global Capital Markets and Global Head of Equity Capital Markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He is an investment banking world-class expert with deep expertise in a full range of equity products, including IPOs, SPACs, block trades, accelerated bookbuilds, secondary offerings, rights issues, equity-linked offerings (convertible and exchangeable bonds), margin loans and corporate equity derivatives.
From 2005-2022 he worked as a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch and then Bank of America, holding several senior positions including Global Head of Equity Capital Markets, Head of EMEA Equity Capital Markets, and Co-Head Asia-Pacific Global Capital Markets.
Prior to that, he worked eight years at Deutsche Bank, rising to the level of Managing Director in its Equity Capital Markets division. He was previously a securities lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell and a law clerk to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Craig is a recognized and sought-after commentator on the financial industry, with numerous recent columns published in the Financial Times and guest appearances on CNBC and Bloomberg TV. Craig has also previously served as Chairman of the Equity Capital Markets Division of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME).
He holds a BA from Yale University and a JD from Harvard Law School and speaks fluent Spanish, French and Italian.
EDUCATION
Harvard Law School
JD, Law
Yale University
BA
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
SEDA Experts
Managing Director
2023-Current
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Co-Head Global Capital Markets, Asia-Pacific Region
2020-2022
Vice Chairman
2018-2020
Global Head of Equity Capital Markets
2014-2018
Head of EMEA Equity Capital Markets
2009-2016
Managing Director, EMEA Equity Capital Markets
2005-2009
Deutsche Bank
Managing Director, EMEA Equity Capital
1997-2005
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Lawyer
1993-1997
US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
Law Clerk to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg
1992-1993