André Esteves

André Esteves
Born Rio de Janeiro, Brazil[1]
Residence Sao Paulo, Brazil[2]
Alma mater Federal University of Rio de Janeiro[2]
Net worth US$ 2.2 billion (October 2015)[2]
Spouse(s) Lillian Esteves[3]
Children 3[2]

André Santos Esteves was ranked by The Forbes World's Billionaires as #628 with a net worth of US$2.2 billion. Among Brazilian billionaires,[4] Esteves is ranked as #13 with a net worth of R$9.07 billion.[5]

Personal life

André Esteves born into a middle-class family in Rio de Janeiro,[1] and obtained his Bachelor's degree in computer science from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.[2][6] Esteves has three children,[7] and The New York Times writes that "he has driven the same Mercedes pickup for four years and takes only two weeks of vacation a year."[1][8] Andre Esteves owns a Dassault Falcon private jet worth $50 million USD.[9] When interviewed about his downtime, "Esteves professes a love of his job, though he also enjoys cinema, wine and good food."[7]

Career

After graduating from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, André Esteves joined Pactual and within "a year he was a member of the bank's foreign debt trading team, and within two he was managing IPOs and M&A deals."[6] In 1992, Esteves made a partner for helping the bank "to post a 59 percent return on capital".[6] UBS purchased Pactual in December 2006,[6] and in June 2008, Esteves left the bank along with key Brazilian partners[10] to create BTG, a global investment company. In April 2009, Esteves, along with other partners, purchased Pactual back from UBS for $2.5 billion.[6] He discussed these events in 2013 in an interview for the Creating Emerging Markets project at the Harvard Business School.[11] Andre Esteves arrives at his office as early as 6:30 AM and "often calls partners together for meetings as late as 10:00 p.m."[12] He also holds regular study meetings with BTG Pactual directors at his home.[13]

Philanthropy

James Crombie of LatinFinance writes that "Esteves supports education and environmental charities". André Esteves has also supported initiatives, projects and institutions that help to improve education, healthcare and promote arts in Brazil. Institutions like the Universidade de São Paulo, the "Hospital de Câncer de Barretos" and the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo are among those supported by Esteves BTG Pactual as CEO. He is a board member of Conservation International."[14] André Esteves has also donated to Harvard Business School, in order that Baker Hall might be renovated; it will be renamed Esteves Hall, in honour of him.[15] This Harvard dormitory is used by many international students, especially those from Esteves' home country, Brazil.[16]

Prizes

BTG Pactual

Main article: BTG Pactual

BTG Pactual, bank in which André Esteves was "CEO", offers advisory services in merger transactions and acquisitions, equity, debt underwriting, asset management, wealth management, sales and trading, loans and financing (corporate lending) and fund management for clients including corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth people. The Bank is also active in proprietary investments (both class of net assets as of non-liquid assets). It is recognized as one of the leading investment banks in emerging markets, the largest independent investment bank and the largest asset manager in Brazil[28]

Awards granted to BTG Pactual

Controversy

Insider trading

In April 2012, André Esteves was fined €350,000 for insider trading in Italy and officials "also froze €4.2 million of Mr. Esteves's personal assets and barred him from acting as an officer in an Italian company for six months."[33][34] Italy’s Consob did this because they stated that "the 43-year-old Latin American banker bought the shares in November 2007 knowing that the group was planning to enter a joint venture with Brazilian rival JBS."[35] Esteves' insider trading "force[d] the bank to amend its prospectus, give investors the option of reconsidering bids for BTG shares, and put a cloud over one of this year's highest profile bank deals."[36] Reuters reported that the "Consob said it notified Esteves of its accusations in November 2010. It said Esteves denied the allegations."[36] Furthermore, Andre Esteves planned to "appeal the action",[37] but did not do so, citing cost and a loss of time as his reasons.[38]

In 2013, Charles Rosier, a partner of BTG Pactual,[39] was convicted in the largest insider trading case in the history of France.[40][41][42] While at UBS, at the end of March and early April 2008, he and his cousin Joseph Raad used inside information to purchase shares and options in Geodis just before the announcement of a takeover bid. Of significance, Rosier worked at UBS when he participated in the insider trades when André Esteves, now CEO and partner and director of BTG Pactual, was still employed by UBS as head of fixed income in charge of $1.7 trillion USD.[43] Esteves had also committed inside trades while at UBS only a few months earlier in November 2007.[44] Also of significance, Huw Jenkins, partner and director and chairman of BTG Pactual and formerly CEO of UBS Investment Bank, was a consultant to UBS at the same time.[45]

Pactual sale to UBS and resale to BTG

Arthur Rutishauser in Sonntagszeitung argued that the way Esteves acquired 27% of his bank is an example of an insider case: Esteves sold the bank in 2006 for 3.1 billion Swiss Francs to UBS, where at that time Huw Jenkins was a key decision maker, and heavily involved in that transaction.[46] Esteves later repurchased Pactual back in 2009 for 2.5 billion Swiss Francs after being allowed to leave UBS to set up BTG.[46] Huw Jenkins was ejected from UBS in 2007 and disappeared from view, to then resurface as a senior partner and Board member at BTG Pactual in 2010.[47]

Lawsuit in Hong Kong by Ex-Employee Zeljko Ivic

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BTG Pactual André Esteves, and a member of the board of directors Huw Jenkins, reportedly "made fraudulent misrepresentations to get Zeljko Ivic to sign agreements with Banco BTG Pactual SA, according to a lawsuit filed with the Hong Kong High Court."[48][49] Robert Tibbo, Zeljko Ivic's attorney, has stated that Zeljko Ivic played a key role in Banco BTG Pactual SA's IPO.[50] Ivic states that he was the key player in fundraising with nine entities, including the China Investment Corporation, GIC Private Limited, as well as the Agnelli and Rothschild families.[51] As such, Ivic is making a case against Banco BTG Pactual SA, BTG Pactual Asia Ltd., CEO Andre Esteves and director Huw Jenkins,[52] and $20 million USD is the amount of the lawsuit, which will serve as compensation for the value of BTG Pactual's shares, promised partnership and unpaid bonuses to Zeljko Ivic.[53][54][55]

Conflict with Brazilian Regulators and Central Bank

Bloomberg reported that "In three separate cases since 1999, Brazil’s central bank and securities commission alleged Pactual had illegally transferred profits to foreign funds to disguise gains and avoid taxes."[56] As such, "Esteves and his partners received warnings in the first two incidents."[56] Furthermore, "In the third, he and another partner were ordered to pay a combined settlement of 100,000 reais ($50,000), with Pactual paying another 4 million reais."[56]

Involvement in Sete

On 19 June 2015, Marcelo Odebrecht, the CEO of Brazil’s largest construction company was arrested by Brazilian Federal Police. Odebrecht was arrested on allegations of fraud, corruption, money laundering and organized crime relating to contracts worth billions of dollars with the rigs company Sete and the state oil company Petrobras. While in detention, Odebrecht attempted to pass a handwritten note to his lawyers that included and mentioned André Esteves, thus potentially implicating BTG Pactual and Andre Esteves in Lava Jato. One of Sete’s largest shareholders is BTG Pactual headed by CEO André Esteves. In the handwritten note, Odebrecht requested his lawyers to "destroy rigs’ email."[57][58][59] Sete Brasil was founded aiming to facilitate and enable the construction of ultra-deep water drilling rigs in the country. Seven companies became investors of the company, the pension funds: Petros, Previ, Funcef and Valia, besides the banks Santander, Bradesco and BTG Pactual. Next, Petrobras joined to this group of investors.[60] Development bank BNDES, which previously agreed to extend financing, withheld funds after former Sete Brasil COO Pedro Barusco testified in late 2014 that he accepted bribes in exchange for awarding contracts as part of a wider corruption probe known as Lava Jato (Carwash in Portuguese).[61] In the first quarter of 2015, BTG Pactual recorded a provision for the impairment to the investment equivalent to approximately 25% of its book value, which had a gross negative impact to revenues of R$280million.[62]

Arrest

André Esteves being arrested in 2015

On 25 November 2015, Esteves was arrested as part of a scandal investigation into Petrobras after he was investigated for his bank's dealings with the oil company.[63]

On November 29, 2015 it was reported that the Brazilian Supreme Court decided to extend banker's arrest, according to Esteves's lawyer. According to the same report by Bloomberg News, BTG Pactual’s partners are in talks to buy Esteves’s 22% to 24% stake including a "golden share" which gave the former CEO control of the firm.[64]

Esteves Wins Release From Jail

On December 17, 2015, Esteves won his release from jail, three weeks after being arrested. BTG’s bonds and shares soared. Esteves must remain at home until he finds a new job, the press office of Brazil’s supreme court said Thursday in Brasilia. The ruling by Judge Teori Zavascki says he can’t have a management role in any of the companies being investigated as part of the corruption probe. The names of those companies were kept sealed. Shares of BTG rose 7.7 percent to 15.62 reais at 3:55 p.m. in Sao Paulo, after gaining as much as 12 percent earlier Thursday. The company’s $1 billion of notes due 2020 rose 3.1 cents to 72.15 cents on the dollar. Esteves’s attorneys argued that he was only arrested because he’s one of the wealthiest people in Brazil, according to court documents filed this month with the supreme court. After landing a job, Esteves must still remain at home at night and during days off, according to the supreme court’s press office, which said he must surrender his passport and appear in court every 15 days. A BTG press official said the bank had no immediate comment.[65]

Back to The Game

On the 27th of April, 2016, hours after Brazil’s Supreme Court freed him from house arrest, a smiling Andre Esteves addressed employees in an auditorium at Grupo BTG Pactual’s headquarters to deliver an important message: he’s back. The bank confirmed in a statement that he’ll be a senior partner, advising on strategy and the development of activities and operations. In his remarks, Esteves denied wrongdoing, as he has in the past; he’s accused in the sweeping pay-to-play corruption probe called Operation Carwash. The 47-year-old spent three weeks in Rio de Janeiro’s infamous Bangu prison on allegations he tried to tamper with the testimony of a former Petroleo Brasileiro SA executive in the investigation that has engulfed the state-run oil giant. He was released from Bangu in December and ordered to be held instead under house arrest. Brazil’s high court lifted that order, and Esteves’s lawyer, Antonio Carlos de Almeida Castro, said by text message that the billionaire is free of all charges and can return to the office. BTG shares rose 1.6 percent to 19.97 reais as of 4:38 p.m. in Sao Paulo trading on Wednesday. It followed a 6.2 percent rally on Tuesday. [66]

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  3. ↑ Nitin Nohria, Sal Khan (1 June 2013). "Building a Better Brazil". Harvard Business School. Retrieved 10 January 2015. A gift from André Esteves (pictured here with wife Lilian) will improve an Executive Education residence hall—a space increasingly used by program participants from Brazil.
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  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Mitchell, Jason (October 2010). Brazil's Goldman. Institutional Investor. p. 68. BTG Pactual reflects Brazil's ascent in the world. Esteves, an only child, was brought up in Tijuca, a middle-class neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. He studied computer science at Rio's Federal University. Upon leaving university in 1989, he joined Pactual, an investment banking boutique founded by banker Luiz Cezar Fernandes six years earlier. Although hired as a mere intern to fix back-office computers, Esteves' drive was evident from the start: He used to sleep in Pactual's office in the modest Lapa neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro so that he could get more work done. Within a year he was a member of the bank's foreign debt trading team, and within two he was managing IPOs and M&A deals. In 1992 his trading skills helped the bank to post a 59 percent return on capital. In recognition he was made a partner the following Winning, indeed. Pactual profited enormously from Brazil's economic takeoff this decade, and in 2006 it became a highly prized target of UBS, the Swiss bank then jockeying for a global investment banking leadership. That December, UBS bought Pactual for $2.6 billion plus a $500 million retention package for some 80 employees, including Pactual's 33 partners. The deal made Esteves, who owned a 30 percent stake in Pactual, a very wealthy man.
  7. 1 2 Crombie, James (March 2011). "The Humble Billionaire". LatinFinance (217). Asked about downtime, Esteves professes a love of his job, through he also enjoys cinema, wine and good food. "I personally have a lovely family and I take my children every day to school, so it's a simple life: work and family," says banker. "We have fun here," he add. Esteves has three children, aged 12, nine and five.
  8. ↑ Downie, Andrew (28 September 2011). "An Investment Banker's Fortunes Rise With Brazil’s". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 January 2015. Still, he has driven the same Mercedes pickup for four years and takes only two weeks of vacation a year.
  9. ↑ Fucs, Jose (27 April 2012). "Da Tijuca para o mundo". http://revistaepoca.globo.com/vida/noticia/2012/04/da-tijuca-para-o-mundo.html (in Portuguese). Epoca. Retrieved 17 January 2015. Seu jato particular, um Dassault Falcon 7X avaliado em US$ 50 milhões, é uma ferramenta de trabalho. External link in |website= (help)
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  34. ↑ Scott, Mark (16 April 2012). "BTG Pactual Chief Fined Over Insider Trading". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 January 2015. André Esteves, the chief executive of the Brazilian bank BTG Pactual, was fined 350,000 euros ($457,000) by the Italian financial regulator on Monday for insider trading.
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  36. 1 2 Silvia Aloisi, Steve Slater (16 April 2012). "Insider trading fine casts cloud over BTG Pactual IPO". Reuters. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  37. ↑ Russell, Jonathan (16 April 2012). "BTG Pactual chief Andre Esteves fined €350,000 for 'insider dealing'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 January 2015. Since the statement was put out Mr Esteves has been fined. He plans to appeal the action.
  38. ↑ "Annual Shareholder's Meeting". BTG Pactual. 27 March 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2015. Mr. André Santos Esvetes hereby declares, for all legal purposes, that in the last five years he has not been subject to the effects of any felony convictions, penalties applied by the CVM in administrative proceedings or final and unappealable decisions, either in legal or administrative proceedings, which would prevent him from performing any professional or business activities, except for the proceeding arising from the civil investigation by the Commissione Nazionale per Le Societá e La Borsa – CONSOB, in Europe, related to the improper secondary use of privileged information in the trading of securities issued by Cremonini S.p.A., which was then negotiating a partnership with JBS S.A., executed in 2007, in which the following decisions were taken: (i) the suspension of André Esteves as an administrator of companies regulated by CONSOB; (ii) the freezing of the supposed profits from the securities trading; and (iii) the imposition of a fine. Mr. ESTEVES filed an administrative appeal, which he subsequently withdrew despite his continuing affirmation that the accusations were unfounded, in order to avoid the expense involved in such an appeal, as well as the time lost. It is important to emphasize that the above-mentioned suspension occurred during the analysis of the subsequent appeal. It is also important to note that, due to its nature, this proceeding does not reflect any criminal consequences.
  39. ↑ Brule, Jill Van Den. "Charles Rosier To Support MPOWERD's Luci Lantern Lighting Up The City Of Lights". iReach. Retrieved 21 July 2015. Luci will be distributed throughout France in the coming months with the support of Charles Rosier, a partner with Brazilian investment bank, BTG Pactual.
  40. ↑ Stothard, Michael. "French trader is fined record €14m". Financial Times. Retrieved 21 July 2015. France’s market regulator has handed out the largest fine in its history to a trader who made €6.2m from insider trading, as the watchdog joins those in the US, UK and Japan taking a tougher line on financial crimes. High quality global journalism requires investment. Joseph Raad "an experienced financier and regular investor" was passed information about the imminent takeover of logistics company Geodis by SNCF, the French state railway, in 2008 by his cousin Charles Rosier, a UBS banker at the time close to the deal, according to the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.
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  44. ↑ Schäfer, Daniel (16 April 2012). "BTG chief fined for insider trading". Financial Times. Retrieved 21 July 2015. The bank had mentioned "ongoing civil, non-criminal investigation in Europe" against Mr Esteves in its IPO prospectus published at the beginning of the month, without providing any detail at the time.
  45. ↑ "HL Paper 27-III/HC 175-III". Minutes of Evidence. House of Commons - Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. Retrieved 21 July 2015. Q2140 Mark Garnier: Mr Jenkins, I think you started at UBS at 1996 and you became head of equities for the Americas in 2000.
  46. 1 2 Rutishauser, Arthur. "Die neuen Herren der BSI und ihre Vergangenheit" (in German). Sonntagszeitung. Retrieved 10 January 2015. Der grösste Insiderfall – allerdings kein strafbarer, sondern ein cleverer – ist, wie Esteves zu seiner Bank kam, an der er 27 Prozent be sitzt und die er beherrscht. Er verkaufte die Bank 2006 der UBS für 3,1 Milliarden Franken. Zwei Jahre später kaufte er sie für 2,5 Milliarden zurück und brachte sie 2012 für 14 Milliar den Dollar an die Börse. Verantwortlich für den Kauf der Pactual war 2006 der damaligen UBS-Investmentbanking chef Hew Jenkins. Jenkins wur de da mals kurzzeitig zum Chef von Esteves. Es war unter seiner Ägide, als die UBS einen grossen Teil der Schrott-Hypotheken kaufte, die bei der UBS zu den 60 Milliarden Franken Abschreibungen und letztlich zum Eingreifen des Staates führten.
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  48. ↑ "André Esteves é processado em Hong Kong por ex-Funcionário" (in Portuguese). Brasil Econômico. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2014. André Esteves, o bilionário fundador do BTG Pactual do Brasil, foi processado por um ex-funcionário em Hong Kong, que alega que lhe foram prometidas uma parceria e ações por conseguir investidores antes da venda inicial de ações do banco. Zeljko Ivic alegou que o Banco BTG Pactual SA, o presidente e CEO Esteves e Huw Jenkins, um sócio-gerente, fizeram deturpações fraudulentas para que ele assinasse acordos com o banco de investimentos, conforme uma ação judicial apresentada perante o Supremo Tribunal de Hong Kong.
  49. ↑ Wong, Douglas (15 May 2014). "BTG Billionaire Esteves Sued in Hong Kong by Ex-Employee - Bloomberg". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 10 January 2015. Andre Esteves, the billionaire founder of Brazil’s BTG Pactual, was sued by a former employee in Hong Kong who claims he was promised a partnership and stock for securing investors before the bank’s initial share sale. Zeljko Ivic alleged that Banco BTG Pactual SA, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Esteves and Huw Jenkins, a managing partner, made fraudulent misrepresentations to get him to sign agreements with the investment bank, according to a lawsuit filed with the Hong Kong High Court. BTG Pactual raised as much as 3.66 billion reais ($1.66 billion) in its 2012 initial public offering. The sale followed a 2010 agreement to sell a stake to a group including China Investment Corp., GIC Pte. and the Rothschild and Agnelli families. Esteves, 45, is worth $4.2 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, mostly due to his 22 percent stake in BTG Pactual. Jenkins and Hong Kong-based BTG Pactual Asia Ltd., which has also been sued, will vigorously defend the claims, "which they believe to be baseless and without merit," according to their lawyer Randall Arthur. BTG Pactual doesn’t comment on matters under litigation, the Sao Paulo-based bank said in an e-mail response to queries. Shares of the company fell 0.7 percent to 32.22 reais at 10:41 a.m. in Sao Paulo. Ivic is seeking more than $20 million as damages for the value of the shares and partnership promised, as well as unpaid bonuses, his lawyer Robert Tibbo said.
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  51. ↑ Samor, Geraldo (15 May 2014). "Zeljko Ivic vs. BTG" (in Portuguese). Veja. Retrieved 10 January 2015. Zeljko Ivic, o reclamante, alega que Esteves e o BTG lhe prometeram sociedade no banco para recompensar seu trabalho, mas não lhe teriam pago. Que trabalho? Ivic alega que foi pessoa-chave na captação de recursos que o BTG fez junto a nove entidades, incluindo os fundos soberanos China Investment Corporation e GIC e as famílias uber-líquidas Rothschild e Agnelli.
  52. ↑ "André Esteves é processado em Hong Kong por ex-Funcionário" (in Portuguese). Brasil Econômico. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015. Há dois processos iniciados por Ivic sobre o assunto. O primeiro, contra o BTG Pactual Asia, começou no Tribunal do Trabalho e foi transferido para o Supremo Tribunal porque envolvia alegações de fraude e devido à complexidade do caso. Ivic apresentou outro processo diretamente ao Supremo Tribunal para citar os réus no exterior.
  53. ↑ Wong, Douglas (15 May 2014). "Esteves, do BTG Pactual, é processado por ex-funcionário" (in Portuguese). Exame. Retrieved 12 December 2014. Ivic está buscando mais de US$ 20 milhões de indenização pelo valor das ações e da parceria prometidas, bem como bônus não pagos, disse seu advogado, Robert Tibbo.
  54. ↑ Rizério, Laura (15 May 2014). "Ex-funcionário do BTG de Hong Kong processa André Esteves e pede reparação de US$ 20 mi" (in Portuguese). InfoMoney. Retrieved 12 December 2014. De acordo com o advogado Robert Tibbo, Ivic quer mais de US$ 20 milhões em danos morais, tendo como base o valor das ações e a parceria prometida.
  55. ↑ Garvey, Paul (21 May 2014). "Edward Snowden lawyer helps accused insider trader Steven Xiao exploit boats row". The Australian. Retrieved 10 January 2015. In addition to representing Mr Snowden, Mr Tibbo is part of a law suit against billionaire Brazilian Andre Esteves. Mr Tibbo is acting for Zeljko Ivic, who is suing Mr Esteves and his company BTG Pactual for more than $US20 million in damages.
  56. 1 2 3 Cuadros, Alex; Cristiane Lucchesi (10 September 2012). "BTG’s Esteves Drives ‘Better Than Goldman’ Rise in Bank’s Clout - Bloomberg". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 22 January 2015. Esteves has had run-ins with regulators. In three separate cases since 1999, Brazil’s central bank and securities commission alleged Pactual had illegally transferred profits to foreign funds to disguise gains and avoid taxes. Esteves and his partners received warnings in the first two incidents. In the third, he and another partner were ordered to pay a combined settlement of 100,000 reais ($50,000), with Pactual paying another 4 million reais. The case closed in 2007 without any admission of guilt.
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