Leonard Singer has spent his entire career in the corporate finance industry, with extensive experience in highly structured domestic and cross border capital (re)structuring transactions involving complex valuation, tax, accounting and regulatory considerations.
Mr. Singer is currently a Managing Director at Newton Pointe LLC, an advisory firm formed in 2008 to provide restructuring and capital raising services to financial institutions faced with problems created by the 2007 market credit/liquidity crises. Over the last six years, the focus has changed to investments in private equity projects including a number of opportunities in the Life Science space.
Prior to starting Newton Pointe LLC, Mr. Singer ran Choir Capital LTD (1996-2008), a merchant banking firm, which originated, managed, and restructured $B’s in operating asset securitizations to help build the portfolios of number of property and casualty insurance companies. Prior to Choir Capital LTD., Mr. Singer spent over 20 years in various global assignments with Citicorp (1974-1996) involving $B’s of financings; including, but not limited to, running the bank’s Global Aviation business (four years); starting its Corporate Finance and managing its Relationship Management client base in Tokyo (eight years); and helping to initiate and manage the bank’s Leveraged Buyout activities in the central part of the U.S (seven years).
Mr. Singer resides in Boston and received a Master’s in Business Administration degree, with a specialty in Operations Research, from the Stern School at New York University.