Esteban Chiappe

Esteban is focused on special situations, distressed and high-yield opportunities in Latin America. He has worked with Argentem Creek since its inception and previously worked with the team while he was at Black River Asset Management, in New York and Argentina. Esteban has over 20 years of experience as an emerging markets investment professional and is fluent in Spanish and is conversant in Portuguese.

Esteban was a senior member of the emerging markets credit team at Black River where he served as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager focused on Latin American credit opportunities. Prior to joining Black River in 2014, Esteban worked at Deutsche Bank, where he was a Director in the Emerging Markets Credit Trading group. From 2000 to 2012, he was at JP Morgan in Buenos Aires and New York, initially in the M&A advisory group and later in the loan workouts group for the bank’s portfolio in Argentina. Esteban later joined the high-yield and distressed debt trading team and ended up running the Global Special Opportunities Group for Latin America at JP Morgan focusing on principal investments in credit and private equity. Esteban launched his career as a Management Associate at Citibank Buenos Aires, where he worked from 1998 to 2000.