W. Joseph Wilson

Joseph Wilson is a co-founder and Chairman of Claris Group. He has over 40 years of international investment banking experience and was formerly a Managing Director and Head of the Cross-Border Financing Group of Merrill Lynch of New York. He has advised over 50 international governmental and corporate clients on a wide range of debt instruments. He specialized in structuring debt financing for issuers that experienced problems in accessing public and private markets, either as new issuers or those with specific size requirements. He has created innovative, structured financing techniques in public and private markets in the U.S., Canada and Europe.