N. HÅKAN WOHLIN
FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER
NEW YORK
Håkan is the Founder & Managing Partner of KingsRock Advisors, a financial services firm.
Håkan has worked in the financial services industry for over three decades. His experience spans global capital markets and M&A, with extensive expertise in origination & capital solutions, underwriting, distribution, and special situations. He has led transactions in all industries across all continents, with a majority of his career in investment banking at Deutsche Bank, after beginning his career at Bear Stearns, & Co. He has been based in New York and London.
Before founding KingsRock, Håkan served as Deutsche Bank’s Global Head of Debt Origination, at the time when Deutsche Bank was consistently a top three global debt underwriting franchise with hundreds of originators worldwide. In this role the team underwrote about 1500 public transactions a year, from approximately one hundred countries, raising many trillions of capital for corporates, financials and public sector clients. During his leadership Deutsche Bank won the prestigious IFR Global Bond House Award three years in a row, a first for any bank. The business was both public and private capital markets, liquid and illiquid, included more complex special situations private transactions, acquisition finance, hybrid capital, across the ratings spectrum.
Prior to that, he was Deutsche Bank’s head of European Capital Markets Origination across structured finance, public and private capital raising, rates, credit, FX and commodities for corporations, financials and governments. The group consisted of hundreds of coverage bankers across different product areas.
As part of serving clients of KingsRock Advisors, as well as the wider community, Håkan Wohlin engages in a range of advisory or trustee roles. Via one such assignment, he is a Member of the Vestry and IC of St John’s Episcopal Church in Southampton, NY. He is a member of The University Club in New York. 5F.
He was member of the board and Vice Chairman of ICMA (International Capital Markets Association), and on the Board of Trustees of the Kent School, CT, US.
Håkan holds the FINRA SIE, Series 24, 63, 79 and 82 licenses, with KingsRock Securities LLC, a FINRA Member firm and SIPC, and a wholly owned subsidiary of KingsRock Advisors LLC.
Graduate of Stockholm University (M.Sc. in Business Admin), undertook grad economic studies at Harvard University.
He lives in New York City, and spends part time in Southampton, NY London, UK, as well as Sweden and Japan.