Experts & Advisors
Christopher Grell
Senior Managing Director
Christopher Grell is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura and Ankura Trust Company, based in Fairfield. He has over 35 years of experience, working in the financial services industry, focusing on corporate trust and escrow relationship management.
Experience
Chris joins from U.S. Bank, where he administered mergers and acquisitions (M&A) escrows, reinsurance trusts, municipal and corporate bond relationships for several prominent state agencies, municipalities, transportation authorities, and Fortune 500 companies.
Chris previously held a Senior Relationship Management position at BNY Mellon, where he specialized in the administration of hospital and continuing care retirement facility financings.
Chris’s experience and expertise include:
- Closing and administration of high-profile M&A, depositary, and litigation escrows
- Involved with some of the most complex investment grade and high yield corporate bond transactions
- Administration of reinsurance trusts for major U.S. and overseas insurance and reinsurance carriers
- Education
- BSc, Finance, Manhattan University, New York
