Anthony D. Yager

Tony Yager is the Practice Group Leader of Chapman’s Corporate Finance Department and a Registered Certified Public Accountant in the State of Illinois.

Tony’s experience primarily includes representation of financial institutions and strategic investors in connection with investing in and restructuring domestic and international direct placements of debt and equity securities in secured and unsecured financings, including merger and acquisition, mezzanine, venture capital, sports finance, real estate, project finance, hedge and equity funds, and general corporate financings. He has also helped organize, represent, and secure funding for start-up businesses. His experience includes representing the term note purchasers in the “league-wide” financings for the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB. Tony has also represented the term note purchasers in a number of stadium financings in the United States as well as the term note purchasers in a transaction for a UK soccer club.

Tony has appeared as a speaker at a number of conferences, including several American College of Investment Counsel (ACIC) spring forums and annual meetings. He was also co-host of the Spring 2014 ACIC Conference and has been the Chairman of the annual Informa Private Placements Industry Forum since 2013. In 2019, Tony was elected President of the ACIC after serving as the organization’s Vice President.