Bio

Mr. Traver has over 30 years of corporate and investment banking experience. Prior to founding CoveView, he spent 27 years with J.P. Morgan and its predecessor firms. At J.P. Morgan, he was most recently Co-Head of the Syndicated and Leveraged Finance Group. He has extensive experience in originating, structuring and underwriting leveraged loan and high yield securities transactions. Mr. Traver was a member of the Regional Underwriting Committee which approved all U.S. originated loan and high yield bond transactions for the firm. Previously, Mr. Traver was Co-Chairman of the Financial Sponsor Group with responsibility for managing the senior relationships and investment banking coverage of a number of large and mid-size private equity firms. In this capacity, he assisted clients in identifying attractive investment opportunities, structured and arranged debt financing for leveraged buyouts and acquisitions, and originated M&A advisory and equity mandates. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director in the Global Syndicated Finance group where he was the lead transactor for many of J.P. Morgan’s largest and most complex leveraged loan transactions. Mr. Traver has a B.A. from Brown University.