Marcus Requeira

DFJ FIR Capital

Founding Partner

Biography

Marcus has over 20 years of international capital markets experience.

In 1977, after earning his MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business, Marcus served as an officer of Unibanco, one of the largest commercial banks in Brazil.

At Unibanco, Marcus was responsible for the largest project finance portfolio in Latin America.

Later, Marcus moved to New York where he served as a Director and Vice President of the investment banking, underwriting and capital markets groups of the Bank of America and First Chicago.

During the Brazilian external debt moratorium, Marcus was a member of the negotiating committee.

Over the course of his career, Marcus was the lead manager on over $1 billion in syndicated transactions, and represented various multinational and Brazilian corporations in M&A transactions, and technology joint-ventures in Brazil.

Marcus is a Founding Partner at FIR Capital, and serves as a board member at C.E.S.A.R. (www.cesar.org.br), a center of excellence in IT development.

Marcus Regueira is the current President of ABVCAP, the Brazilian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.

He is also founder and board member of Instituto Hartmann Regueira (www.institutohr.org.br), a not-for-profit organization which mission is the co-entrepreneurship of social investments with small and medium companies, and the development of its best management practices.