Harry Cohen

Meet Harry, the founder of KTR Partners, created in 2023 following Zalis’ merger with Endrix. Following twelve years leading Zalis’ global M&A practice from New York, Harry launched KTR Partners as a focused carve-out of the firm’s M&A division, continuing to lead complex cross-border transactions and strategic advisory projects.

During his leadership at Zalis, Harry played a central role in expanding the firm’s international footprint. He forged a strategic partnership with GlassRatner, one of the top restructuring and financial advisory firms in the U.S., and launched the BTG Global Advisory alliance. Over the years, he has managed numerous transactions in France and abroad, including:

• Identifying and acquiring a French e-money issuer on behalf of a major African remittance company
• Selling a minority stake in a general contracting firm to a French private equity fund
• Renegotiating interest rate swaps for a group of French hospitals
• Structuring the purchase of a majority stake in a French aeronautics OEM by two major U.S. private equity firms
   

With more than 30 years of international experience, Harry has worked in Paris, London, Madrid, and New York. As a dual American-Spanish national, he is fluent in English, Spanish, and French.

In 2023, following Zalis’ strategic merger with Endrix, Harry founded KTR Partners as a carve-out of Zalis’ M&A division.

Earlier career:

Before focusing on M&A and strategic advisory work, Harry spent two decades in investment banking, serving as an arbitrageur at BNP, a proprietary trader at CIC and Bankers Trust, and later head of proprietary trading and head of emerging markets at BBVA.

In 2003, he joined Vega AM, then the world’s largest hedge fund, where he launched his own fund backed by BBVA. He later founded HDCB Advisors in 2008, advising a major risk-software provider and managing market exposures for funds of funds and family offices.

Harry holds a Magistère in Economics & Statistics and a DEA in Mathematical Economics & Econometrics from the Toulouse School of Economics. Since 2009, he has also served as a board member and treasurer of an international nonprofit organization.