Chad Leat: Former Investment Banker with Citigroup

Chad Leat was an investment banker with Citigroup for over 16 years – a tenure that rounded out a highly successful 30-year career on Wall Street. Initially a partner in High Yield Capital Markets with Salomon Brothers (1997), 

Leat proved an invaluable asset to Citigroup throughout his time with the firm – not only as the Global Head of Loans and Leveraged Finance between 1998 and 2005, but also as co-head of Global Credit Markets (2006-2007) and as Chairman of the Global Financial Sponsors Group (2009-2013).

As the Global Head of Loans and Leveraged Finance, Leat was responsible for growing the business into one of the biggest and most successful high-yield and loan operations of its kind on Wall Street – one that would end up contributing more than $1 billion in revenue every year. 

And as co-head of Global Credit Markets, Chad Leat provided leadership to more than 1,000 employees around the globe – something that included all of the company’s debt capital and credit trading market groups producing revenues of more than $3 billion a year.

Leat would serve on Citigroup’s Capital Markets Origination Committee, Fixed Income Management Committee and Investment Banking Management Committee before retiring as Citigroup Vice Chairman of Global Investment Banking in 2013.

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