Leeor Avigdor

Leeor Avigdor is a EVP-Global Treasurer and Head of M&A for Franklin Templeton.

Prior to joining Franklin, Mr. Avigdor was a Managing Director and Head of Strategic Development at Benefit Street Partners (BSP), Franklin's alternative credit specialist investment manager with approximately $75 billion of assets under management. Prior to joining BSP in 2015, Mr. Avigdor worked at Barclays as a Director in investment banking focused on financial institutions. At Barclays, Mr. Avigdor worked on numerous M&A, IPO and capital markets transactions for asset management and specialty finance companies. Prior to joining Barclays, Mr. Avigdor worked in investment banking at UBS in the Financial Institutions Group. Prior to investment banking, Mr. Avigdor began his career at UBS in interest rate derivative sales within the fixed income division.

Mr. Avigdor received a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.