Managing Director
Eugene Braigen
Eugene’s experience is a combination of structured finance, alternative investments, and the financing and operations of mining companies. He has built a successful career in transaction originations, debt and equity structuring, distribution for alternative investments and hedge funds and advising on establishing investment funds in the trade finance and asset-based lending space.
Eugene is re-joining Avalon Securities Ltd to head the firm’s effort in the Minerals and Mining sector, leveraging his knowledge in the metals, mining, and commodities finance to provide investment banking expertise and access to alternative financing providers to Avalon’s clients.
In mining, he has spent several years working with senior management of a listed resource company building a robust reporting and budgeting process and participating in operational decisions and is currently part of an advisory group specializing in the sector.
In finance, Eugene has an accomplished track record of advising in a wide range of financing facility types. Over the course of his career, Eugene was part of the team that established a $1 billion specialty finance subsidiary of a European Bank, raising over $300 million of outside equity, to enable the parent company to expand its portfolio beyond the limitations of the parent company’s balance sheet.
In working with start-up investment funds, Eugene has raised $150 million of initial outside capital from institutional, fund of funds and family office marketplace for several programs, including an Australian private debt fund and several cross-border trade finance funds.
Eugene is a principal of KWR Capital, an advisory firm focused on metals, mining, and commodities sector. Eugene has a B.A. in Economics from New York University and is a FINRA registered broker with Series 63 and 63.