Andy Altahawi

ANDY ALTAHAWI
International Attorney | Veteran Investment Banker | Capital Markets Consultant
www.adamsonbrothers.com | www.directlylisted.com | www.andyaltahawi.com

Andy Altahawi is a dual-discipline professional whose career combines more than three decades of senior-level U.S. investment banking with an equally long international legal practice. Few advisors in the global capital markets hold both qualifications in equal measure, and fewer still apply them together to the structuring, listing, and post-listing oversight of issuers entering the world's most demanding exchanges. His work sits at the intersection of U.S. securities law and SEC compliance, exchange qualification on NYSE and NASDAQ, and international corporate structuring, with involvement in hundreds of public offerings and billions of dollars raised across multiple market cycles.

Prudential Securities (1994–1998). Mr. Altahawi began his U.S. investment banking career as a Senior Vice President in the Investment Banking division of Prudential Securities, then one of the country's leading full-service investment banks, led by Chairman and CEO Wick Simons, the former Chairman of NASDAQ. There he worked on headline equity offerings of the era, including the Cali Realty IPO and follow-on transactions, along with REIT, technology, and growth-company financings. The underwriting discipline and institutional standards of that era continue to shape his advisory approach.

Adamson Brothers (1998–present). In 1998 he founded Adamson Brothers, a full-service U.S. broker-dealer and investment bank registered with FINRA (CRD #46684). The firm grew into a multi-office operation spanning equity and bond trading, options, market making, and a corporate finance practice covering IPOs, follow-on offerings, private placements, SPACs, and reverse mergers. Through Adamson Brothers, Mr. Altahawi took hundreds of companies public on U.S. exchanges and the OTC markets, with billions raised for issuer clients in technology, life sciences, real estate, financial services, and energy. The firm operated its broker-dealer business without a single customer complaint. After the post-2008 restructuring of the broker-dealer industry, Adamson Brothers became a specialized capital markets advisory firm and has since advised private and public issuers on widely followed listings and direct listings on NYSE and NASDAQ.

International legal practice (1986–present). In parallel, Mr. Altahawi has practiced law internationally for more than three decades. He holds a law degree from Cairo University Law School (1986) and a Ph.D. in Finance from Chelsea University (2000), and he has been admitted as a Supreme Court attorney with bar membership since 1986, with reciprocal practice rights in additional jurisdictions and regular co-counsel work alongside U.S.-based partners. His legal practice covers cross-border corporate structuring, international commercial contracts, M&A, joint ventures, commercial arbitration (including Bermuda-form insurance and reinsurance disputes), and governance counsel for boards of publicly traded companies. He has served as General Counsel to multinational enterprises and has taken dozens of international commercial disputes through to final award.

Credentials. Mr. Altahawi has held one of the broadest FINRA licensure profiles among independent capital markets consultants: Series 3, 4, 6, 7, 24, 55, 63, 65, and 79, spanning supervisory, principal, and investment banking qualifications since 1994.

Current practice. Through Adamson Brothers Corp., he advises emerging companies, mid-cap issuers, and international corporate clients on NYSE and NASDAQ listing readiness and uplisting; preparation of S-1, F-1, Reg A+, Reg D, and shelf registration documentation; SPAC structuring and post-business-combination integration; capital formation strategy and road-show preparation; cross-border structuring for foreign issuers entering U.S. markets; and corporate governance frameworks aligned with public market expectations.

Clients range from high-growth private companies preparing for a first listing to established international corporations pursuing IPOs, direct listings, SPACs, or alternative routes to the U.S. markets. The approach is methodical and investor-focused: position each client not merely for a successful listing, but for durable long-term performance on the world's most competitive exchanges. The value of the dual qualification is practical — financial structuring advice and legal precision from a single source, without the friction of coordinating separate banking and legal teams. the world's most competitive exchanges.