Leyster Capital structures liquidity solutions for the world’s most extraordinary assets. We unlock opportunities where conventional finance sees obstacles.
We partner with elite advisors, private banks, and family offices to deliver precision-crafted capital solutions for clients whose needs fall outside the boundaries of conventional finance.
Our many years of experience and agile deployment of capital bring clarity, urgency, and discretion to your clients’ most pivotal situations.
Born out of deep experience in structured finance, alternative credit, and luxury asset advisory, we benefit from a long-term relationship with the principals of Arena Investors, a global institutional asset manager that provides creative solutions for those seeking capital in special situations. Our flexibility and objectivity, coupled with support from Arena’s world-class team of investment professionals and affiliated servicing personnel, strengthen the quality of our execution and financing opportunities.
Our firm is named for Judith Leyster, a 17th-century Dutch artist of extraordinary talent and vision. In an era dominated by men, she built a celebrated career, creating masterpieces of technical precision and creative brilliance.
This ethos—artistry, ingenuity, and succeeding in a world of rigid conventions—is the spirit we bring to modern finance. We see the intrinsic value others miss and craft financial solutions with the same dedication to strategic excellence that defined Judith Leyster’s remarkable career.
Our team combines elite backgrounds in special situations investing, banking, fine art, and collectible finance. Each transaction is handcrafted by professionals who bring clarity, speed, and ingenuity to the table.
A senior finance executive with over $15B in transactions structured, Eileen is a veteran of Wall Street, hedge funds and advisory firms. She leads Leyster’s capital strategy and deal execution with a focus on discretion, precision, and alignment with client outcomes, drawing on decades of transaction and advisory experience.
Prior to founding Leyster Capital, Eileen established West End Capital and Advisory in 2009, where she continues to lead the firm’s advisory practice, assisting entertainment, technology and specialty finance companies with capital formation and restructuring advice.
Recognized as an entertainment finance pioneer, Eileen developed the first entertainment-focused investing strategy in the asset management space at DB Zwirn & Co., an $8 billion alternative investment firm. Notable transactions include a mezzanine and founding equity investment in Legendary Pictures, where she served on the board guiding management through a major recapitalization. This expertise in structuring complex transactions across entertainment and specialty assets demonstrates the analytical rigor and creative problem-solving that defines Leyster’s approach.
Previously a Managing Director at FleetBoston Financial, Eileen founded the Entertainment Finance Group and originated a groundbreaking $1 billion asset securitization for DreamWorks, creating new financing techniques now standard in entertainment finance. Eileen began her career at predecessor institutions to JP Morgan, where she successfully managed an $8 billion restructuring for The News Corporation. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from Boston College and received an MBA from Columbia University.
Eileen serves as Founding Member and Treasurer of The Actors Theatre Workshop, an award-winning non-profit helping NYC homeless children through innovative theatre and education programs.
An expert in Post-War, Contemporary, and Emerging Art with a distinguished career as an appraiser, advisor, broker, gallerist and art critic, Deborah has extensive experience appraising high-value works of art for insurance, tax, and sales advisory purposes. Drawing upon her depth of experience and global network of appraisers, conservators and art-world specialists, Deborah works with Leyster’s lending experts to ensure that the collateral for all prospective loans is evaluated with accuracy, discretion, and timeliness.
Deborah has been an esteemed fine art advisor for the past 15 years, and previously ran a thriving contemporary art gallery in Paris, Galerie Deborah Zafman, for seven years. She has advised institutional and private clients on the dispersal, sale and acquisition of fine art, and has performed provenance research for individual collectors.
Deborah began her career as an art historian working as a curatorial assistant at the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci outside Florence, Italy, and the Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley, California.
Deborah has written for Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary auction catalogues and has published numerous essays in exhibition catalogs and reviews in Art Press. She’s an adjunct professor at Montclair State University, teaches at the Appraisal Institute in New York City, and markets Leyster’s lending products to prospective clients in Beverly Hills, Palm Beach, and New York.
Deborah holds a Ph.D. in art history from UC Berkeley, is fluent in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Hebrew, and serves on the Board of Directors of The Appraisers Association of America.
A seasoned investment associate with meaningful advisory and investing experience focused on enthusiast companies. Matt has worked extensively with closely held, middle market business owners globally, and has executed both M&A and asset based debt transactions on behalf of industry leading auction houses, dealers, marketplaces, fairs, specialty lenders, and storage providers across the classic car, fine art, fine wine, and luxury watch ecosystems.
Prior to West End, Matt spent over three years at a boutique investment bank that specialized in providing advisory services to companies in the luxury and broader collectibles segments. Select transactions include, among others, a capital raise to fund a time-sensitive purchase of a prominent car collection valued in excess of $100 million, a joint venture between an auction house and a media conglomerate, and the sale of a leading fine art fair.
Matt began his career at YieldStreet, an alternative investment platform originating credit investments in many industries including real estate, fine art, and litigation finance.
Matt graduated from Northeastern University in December 2018 with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, concentrating in both Finance and Entrepreneurship.
When your clients face challenges that traditional lenders cannot solve, Leyster Capital is your behind-the-scenes partner for elegant, effective, and discreet solutions.
As part of our commitment to your privacy, we have written this policy to help you understand what information we gather about you, how we use that information after we’ve gathered it, and when and how we disclose that information.
Leyster Capital collects non-public information (“Information”) about the users of the Website from the following sources: through the submission of a business proposal and other forms or agreements that you submit to us, from requests for information and from correspondence and other communications that you have with us. The Information that we gather may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, social security number, and information about your income level and/or assets. You may also be asked for additional required or optional Information.
We may record certain data about your use of the Website so that we may collect information regarding the number and frequency of visitors to the Website, the websites that users access before and after they visit the Website, the Internet browsers used by our visitors and our visitors IP addresses. Such Information is aggregated and will not be tied to you in any personally-identifiable manner other than your IP address. We do not currently use cookies (except to allow access to password-protected portions of the Website) though we may choose to do so in the future.
The Information you provide to us is used for reasonable business purposes and the purpose for which you provided it, including, without limitation, to respond to your request or correspondence. The Information may also be analyzed so that we can serve you in the best manner possible on our Website through new features and functions and to provide you with useful information from Leyster Capital.
We may employ outside agents or third-party service providers to operate the Website and employ others to perform functions on our behalf, such as sending postal mail and e-mail and analyzing data. These third parties have access to personally identifiable information needed to perform their functions. These third parties may not use your Information for any other purpose.
We may disclose your Information to certain third parties if you have requested or authorized the disclosure of the Information, and/or if such disclosure is permitted and/or required by law or to protect the integrity of our services and/or the Website. You hereby authorize us to disclose your Information in those circumstances.
Transfer of Information to Third Parties Upon a Change of Control
We retain the right to transfer all Information pursuant to a merger or to a purchaser of Leyster Capital or all or substantially all of our assets if that purchaser agrees to abide by the terms of this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
We take reasonable precautions to protect your Information from loss, misuse or alteration. We restrict access to your Information to those employees who need to know that Information to provide products or services to you, and we maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards for your Information that comply with federal regulations. You should recognize, however, that there is no such thing as perfect security on the Internet.
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