Humeyra Nicolas Joins Baird to Support Sales&Trading Team

Today, Baird, an employee-owned, international wealth management, asset management, investment banking/capital markets and private equity firm, is pleased to announce the appointment of Humeyra Nicolas as Managing Director and Risk Arbitrage/Event-Driven Sales Trader with immediate effect. She will be based out of the firm's New York office.

Nicolas has more than 18 years of buy-side and sell-side experience at several notable firms.

In the new role, she will work with the Sales and Trading team to further enhance the firm's risk arbitrage and event-driven strategies. According to her LinkedIn profile, most recently, Nicolas served as Head of Event Driven Sales Trading at ICAP, where she managed the risk arbitrage and special situations desk, as well as analyzed fundamental and regulatory aspects of mergers. Prior to ICAP, she held positions including Sales Vice President of Risk Arbitrage at FIMAT USA and Institutional Sales on Risk Arbitrage Strategies at Maxim Group.

Nicolas earned a graduate degree in economics from Galatasaray Universitesi in Istanbul, Turkey, and a master's degree in financial engineering from ESSEC Business School in Paris, France.

"We are thrilled to have Humeyra join our Event-Drive Equity Sales and Trading team. Her wealth of experience, expertise and relationships are a tremendous addition to our value proposition to our clients." said Jon Langenfeld, Baird's Head of Global Equities.