Oscar Junquera is the founder and Managing Partner of PanMar Capital llc, a venture capital and strategic advisory firm specializing in the financial services industry. He has over 30 years of principal investing and investment banking experience. Prior to forming PanMar, he was a Managing Director in the Global Financial Institutions Group at UBS Investment Bank and Global Head of Asset Management Investment Banking.
Mr. Junquera is a member of the Board of Directors of NorthStar Realty Europe Corp. (“NRE”/NYSE), and Toroso Investments LLC. He was previously a Director of NorthStar Asset Management Group and NorthStar Realty Finance, which merged with Colony Capital in 2017 to form Colony NorthStar, Inc. (“CLNS”/NYSE). Mr. Junquera also served as a Director fo HF2 Financial Management, until it’s 2015 acquisition of ZAIS Group Holdings, which traded as “ZAIS” on Nasdaq.
Mr. Junquera began his career at PaineWebber’s Investment Banking Division where he was a Managing Director, Group Head – Financial Institutions, and a member of the Investment Banking Executive Committee. His investment banking team included 28 professionals covering a broad range of financial services companies primarily based in the US.
Upon the sale of PaineWebber to UBS in 2000, he was appointed Global Head of Asset Management Investment Banking and was responsible for establishing and building the bank’s leading franchise with mutual fund, institutional, high net worth and alternative asset management firms, as well as banks, insurance and financial services companies active in asset management. He managed a global team of investment bankers based in New York, London and Tokyo.
Mr. Junquera’s experience covers a unique cross-section of strategic advisory and capital markets activities, combined with the structuring and distribution of investment funds and permanent capital vehicles. He has developed long-standing relationships with many leading investment management and financial services companies in the US, UK, Europe and Asia, being actively involved in:
- Advising Boards, CEOs and management teams on a variety of landmark domestic and cross-border M&A transactions
- Leading underwritings of initial public offerings and follow-on financings for many prominent public asset management companies
- Pioneering multiple product innovations through the launch of over 200 investment vehicles raising in excess of $100 billion in assets
- Advising investment fund Boards and management teams in connection with corporate actions and strategic initiatives
Mr. Junquera holds a BS from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has served on the Board of Trustees of The Nature Conservancy (Long Island Chapter) and is a supporter of various charitable organizations, including the Boys Club of New York, the Inner-City Scholarship Fund, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and the Museum of the City of New York. Born in Havana, Cuba, Mr. Junquera resides in New York City with his wife and three sons.
Contact: ojunquera@panmarcap.com or 212-628-5600