Peter Shaerf

Managing Director at AMA Capital Partners LLC

Speaker

Peter joined AMA in 2002. He became a partner in 2005. Peter started in the industry over 50 years ago and worked for many years as a shipbroker for container and dry cargo vessels through a company he founded, The Commonwealth Group. He also operated a small Caribbean liner service while working for a firm of British shipowners.

Immediately prior to joining AMA he was a co-founder of Poseidon Capital, a specialist maritime “boutique.” At AMA he has continued developing relationships in the capital markets where he has worked primarily advising hedge funds and investors on a variety of maritime investments in both equity and distressed debt and is actively involved in transaction origination. He has extensive experience in vessel valuations and has performed such work for financial institutions and Government clients. He has been active most recently in the dry bulk market, the small cruise ship sector, both luxury and expedition vessels, and as AMA have expanded their practice in the maritime service sector.

Peter is Chairman of Delta Corp Holdings UK, an asset-light shipping/logistics company with interests in bulk and oil transportation and in bunker supply and storage.

He served for five years as Deputy Chairman at Seaspan and has previously served as an independent Director (non-executive) of five other publicly traded maritime companies and several private shipping companies in the dry bulk and U.S.flag sectors

Following service from 2008-2013 as Chairman of New York Maritime Association ( "NYMAR") a leading trade association, he has now been re-appointed to the role and has helped elevate the organization's presence and its place as a leading member of the International Association of Maritime Clusters. He is also a member of the American Bureau of Shipping and on the shipbuilding/finance committee of the U.S. Government's Marine Transport National Advisory Council and on the advisory board of Lloyd's List, the world's leading maritime publication.

Peter has a B.A. in international business law from London Metropolitan University.