Allan Silver brings to the
Traxis Financial Group and its financial service affiliates extensive commercial and
legal expertise. In his role as the President, Mr. Silver
is responsible for leading the development and implementation of all strategic
initiatives for the Traxis Financial Group, including new financial products,
services and innovative transaction structures to reduce finance costs
and better serve the needs of our customers.
Mr. Silver possesses nearly two decades of law firm and in-house experience
leading teams of lawyers and finance professionals in the structuring,
negotiation, documentation and successful closing of a wide variety of
sophisticated corporate and financing transactions. His background includes
domestic and cross-border secured lending, asset-backed finance, project
finance, commodities finance, highly-leveraged transactions, bank and
capital markets finance, project investments, mergers and acquisitions,
and workouts and restructurings.
Prior to joining the Traxis Financial Group, Mr. Silver was most recently
the General Counsel of Orbian Corporation, a commercial finance company
using the capital markets and institutional investors to finance accounts
receivable, inventory and other current assets. Before his tenure at Orbian,
Mr. Silver held senior positions at full-service global law firms Bingham
McCutchen LLP and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCoy LLP, as well as in-house
legal positions at Document Development Corporation and West LB.
Preceding his legal career, Mr. Silver worked as an account executive
in the commercial financing and factoring industry.
Mr. Silver earned an M.B.A. in Finance, with distinction, from New York
University, and a J.D. from Fordham University. He is qualified to practice
law in New York State only.