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Metairie, La., headquartered Maritime Companions LLC has just lately added Stephen J. Bordes and Greg Chase to its govt management workforce.
Bordes, who joins Maritime Companions as its chief monetary officer, has greater than 20 years of expertise within the fields of finance and fund administration.
Previous to becoming a member of Maritime Companions, he served because the CFO for New York-based American Industrial Companions, a middle-market personal fairness agency that invests in industrial companies.
“Stephen is an skilled in accounting, monetary administration and company operations. He’s labored with a number of economic establishments and brings with him huge expertise and data of greatest practices in monetary administration, operations and compliance, in addition to personal fairness administration for home and abroad companies,” mentioned Bick Brooks, co-founder and CEO of Maritime Companions. “His addition will considerably improve our workforce going-forward.”
“I’ve labored in finance and personal fairness for many of my profession, and I’m pleased with what I’ve realized and achieved,” Bordes mentioned. “Becoming a member of Maritime Companions has given me a possibility to carry all my years of studying, expertise and experience to a quickly increasing platform. I’m trying ahead to all that we’ve got on the horizon.”
In his profession, Bordes has labored domestically and internationally for firms together with Citadel Harlan, Benefit Capital, Deloitte and Revlon. He holds a bachelor of science diploma in administration & accounting from Tulane College’s A.B. Freeman Faculty of Enterprise and an MBA, with a concentrate on worldwide enterprise & finance, from Columbia Enterprise Faculty.
Additionally becoming a member of the Maritime Companions workforce is Greg Chase, who’s serving because the agency’s chief authorized officer.
Chase involves Maritime Companions from Reed Smith LLP, a worldwide regulation agency with a robust maritime observe. Whereas at Reed Smith, he led the agency’s Chambers-ranked maritime transactional workforce in New York.
“We’re excited to welcome Greg to the Maritime Companions workforce. His years advising on important delivery transactions in personal observe has given him important data and experience within the maritime business, and his years of expertise working with MP as an outdoor lawyer makes him a superb match for our workforce,” mentioned Brooks.
Throughout his 22-year regulation agency profession, Chase represented personal fairness corporations, lenders, working firms and buyers within the Jones Act and worldwide and delivery industries, with a concentrate on company and finance transactions.
“Greg’s experience will likely be of large profit to MP as we proceed to develop,” Brooks mentioned.
Chase helped construct and launch Reed Smith’s U.S. maritime workforce, which is very ranked within the U.S. market.
“I’m pleased with my time at Reed Smith, and the agency’s U.S. transportation observe has been going from power to power and could be very nicely positioned for the long run,” mentioned Chase”And as a lot as I worth my former agency and colleagues, I’m excited for my new position. I’m glad to be the newest addition to the MP workforce, and I sit up for working with this proficient group for the continued progress of the enterprise,” he mentioned.
Earlier than becoming a member of Reed Smith in 2013, Chase was an affiliate at Watson, Farley and Williams LLP in New York, working towards worldwide finance and company transactions. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Authorities and Historical past from St. Lawrence College, then went on to finish his regulation diploma at Cornell Regulation Faculty in 2001, with a specialization in Worldwide Authorized Affairs.
He’s the chair of the Financing Committee of the Maritime Regulation Affiliation of the US, and a director of the Hellenic American Chamber of Commerce and New York Maritime, lnc.
“We’re thrilled to have these two consultants, each extremely revered of their fields, come aboard as our enterprise continues to develop,” Brooks mentioned.
