Specialist Funds Team
Margaret L. Chan
Managing Director and Head of Specialist Funds
Margaret Chan joined the Seabury Group in December 2001 as head of the Los Angeles office with more than 20 years of experience in diverse public and private transactions. As a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch, and co-founder of Cargill/O'Brien Partners, Ms. Chan structured a wide range of transactions involving innovative financing strategies. Her knowledge in both debt and equity and investor appetite uniquely enables her to design least obvious solutions to benefit her clients.
Chong Chan
Executive Director and Actuary
Chong Chan is an insurance and financial expert with 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. He has earned the Fellow of the Society of Actuaries designation, as well as the Fellow of the Life Management Institute designation. Prior to joining Seabury in 2004, Mr. Chan co-founded Answer Financial Inc, an on-line insurance brokerage company. For the last seven years, Mr. Chan and his partner raised over $195 million of equity capital from institutional investors, and built Answer into a national, full-service insurance agency that markets 14 lines of products to consumers using a multi-channel distribution platform.
Tony Wong
Life Product Specialist
Tony joined Seabury in January 2006 and is responsible for underwriting and pricing individual life settlement policies. Tony has an extensive background in the Life and Health Insurance industry dating back to 1998. As a Life Specialist for Seabury, Tony currently works with the major life settlement brokers providers to price and source life settlement policies. He also conducts in-depth analysis and risk assessments of the life expectancies of the insured parties.
Joseph Chan
Operations Manager
Joseph joined Seabury in January 2006 as our Los Angeles Office Manager, responsible for the administration of assets under management, including life settlement portfolios. Joseph is an experienced operation executive. Prior to joining Seabury, Joseph was Chief Operation Officer of Cels Enterprises Inc., an international OEM shoe manufacturer whose business is private labels and licenses to clients such as Wal-Mart, Sears, Nine West, Ross, Nordstrom & Macy’s.
Stephan T. Krastev
Senior Vice President
Stephan Krastev joined Seabury in April 2002. During his tenure at Seabury, Mr. Krastev has structured and executed a broad range of transactions, including restructuring, capital raising and M&A advisory. Most recently, Mr. Krastev was involved in the highly successful liquidity financing programs for US Airways ($525M) and Air Canada (C$1B) and advised Frontier Airlines in its acquisition by Republic Airways. Prior high-profile assignments include US Airways’ liquidity financing program ($1.1B) in 2008; advising Northwest Airlines (2005-2007) during its financial restructuring, including arranging $750 million of new equity and restructuring of debt obligations; and advising Air Canada (2003-2004) and US Airways (2002-2003) during their respective court-supervised proceedings, including restructuring of aircraft debt and lease financings.
