Claude DeSouza Lawrence

Managing Director, Equity Linked Strategies
St. Petersburg

Claude DeSouza Lawrence is a Managing Director at Raymond James, leading the firm’s equity-linked capital markets efforts across all industries. During his career, Mr. DeSouza Lawrence has worked on a variety of public offerings, private placements, repurchases, exchanges, and other liability management assignments, closing more than 150 deals in his career. Prior to joining Raymond James in 2004, Mr. DeSouza Lawrence managed a multi-$100 million equity derivative portfolio at TD Securities. Prior to this, he was a vice president within U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray’s convertible department in San Francisco where he was the lead analyst, while also working in convertible origination. Before joining Piper Jaffray, Mr. DeSouza Lawrence was the convertible analyst at Volpe Brown Whelan & Co. Mr. DeSouza Lawrence holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Carlton University.