Dana Barta
Dana Barta
Speaker
Executive Director - Aviation Debt Capital Markets

JP Morgan

United States

Dana joined JPMorgan in July 2021 as an Executive Director to focus on EETC origination and to work with the bank’s other capital markets experts on both aviation and transportation deals.

Prior to JPMorgan, Dana spent 11 years at Morgan Stanley’s Capital Markets division where she was responsible for originating and executing deals in the transportation space. Dana has been involved in all Morgan Stanley EETC transactions 2010-2020, raising $45Bn+ for domestic and international EETCs.

In 2016 Airline Economics has recognized Dana as one of the “40 under 40” to watch. Dana is a co-founder of AWAR.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Dana worked at JPMorgan as an Analyst in Structured Credit Products and at Wachovia as an Associate in Structured Equity Products. In these roles, Dana was involved in structuring Synthetic Collateral Debt Obligations and Alternative Investments respectively.

Dana graduated Magna Cum Laude from Mount Holyoke College with a B.A. in Economics and Computer Science and from Columbia’s MBA – the Executive Program in 2015 with Dean’s Honors, sponsored by Morgan Stanley.

Dana was born and raised in Romania and moved to the U.S. to attend college. She lives in Westchester with her husband and two kids.

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Sessions

Main Agenda

  • What financing and liquidity will lessors be able to acquire in 2023?
  • How are recent M&A influencing buying opportunities in the secondary market as firms seek to build their portfolios next year?
  • What aircraft portfolio metrics are lessors aiming for?
  • What is the potential pipeline for airline bonds backed by alternative assets like loyalty programs, EETCs and CLOs?
  • How are these deals structures evolving?

Marjan Riggi
Senior Managing Director, Kroll Bond Rating Agency
Dana Barta
Executive Director - Aviation Debt Capital Markets, JP Morgan
Jerome Duval
Director Structured Finance, Citi
Moderator
Jim Bell
Partner, Global Aviation Sector Co-Head, Watson Farley & Williams