Athanasios Smprinis

Athanasios Smprinis holds extensive experience in finance, specializing in ratings advisory and leveraged finance. Currently serving as Director/Senior Vice President in Ratings Advisory Leveraged Finance at Jefferies since August 2021, Athanasios previously held positions at ING as Vice President and Associate in Ratings Advisory from September 2018 to August 2021. Prior roles include Associate Director and Analyst in High Yield and Leveraged Finance at Fitch Ratings from March 2015 to August 2018 and Analyst in DCM SSA Origination at Crédit Agricole CIB in 2014. Athanasios has also worked at Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking in DCM Corporate Bond Origination and Corporate Loan Origination & Syndication, and has experience as a High Yield Credit Research Intern at Debtwire, as well as an intern at the Hellenic Capital Market Commission. Athanasios holds an MSc in Investment Management from the ICMA Centre, University of Reading, and a BSc in Business Economics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.