Our Vision – Putting you on a new path

We strive to demystify legal documentation, putting you on a new path. Whether we use the latest artificial intelligence, natural language processing techniques, or human intelligence or, dare we say, a little old-fashioned copy and paste, our goal is to put the information you need at your fingertips when and where you need it.

Data, software and expertise are the tools that allow us to deliver to you on our promise of high-quality analysis and insight.

Our Story - Breaking Barriers

We’ve read capital markets documents. We’ve drafted them. We’ve corrected them. We’ve sat at our desk into the small hours trawling through the docs. We often felt that we could have been faster, better informed and reduced risk with the right tools. Recent advances in natural language processing and artificial intelligence have made the creation of these tools a reality.

Our curiosity leads us exploring through the current jungle of these technologies. Our enthusiasm pushes us to persevere and find those select techniques that will truly help our capital markets customers, breaking the barriers imposed by existing processes.

We are experts in blending together the disciplines of finance, law, natural language processing and artificial intelligence, with a sprinkling of software, to bring structure to capital markets legal docs. And in doing so, provide a first-class service to our customers, whilst having a little fun along the way.

The Team

Peter Jasko

Peter Jasko

CEO

Peter has blended technology and finance throughout his career. Highlights include leading the European CLO team at JPMorgan and running three successful tech startups. When he is not running marathons, he chairs a local Scout group and swimming club.

Sam

Sam

CTO, Co-Founder

Sam's background is in software, telecom/voice, datacenter and compliance technologies. He was most recently co-founder and CEO of Verba Technologies, a fintech, which was acquired by Nasdaq-listed Verint Systems. At Verba, he architected the firm's speech analytics technology. Besides Semeris, he invests in real estate and trains his dog.

Danielle

Danielle

COO

Danielle's background is in Capital Markets and Structured Finance. She worked as a Executive Director in the European CLO Structuring team at JPMorgan for 11 years, focusing on cashflow CLOs, synthetic CDOs and CDOs of ABS. Most recently, she has been involved in business management and strategy in the UK education sector.

Neil

Neil

Head of US Sales

Neil's career in capital markets has traversed software engineering, fixed income research, and business development for a variety of fintech and investment banking firms, and he recently served as the head of investor relations for Standard and Poor's CLO and Leveraged Finance ratings businesses. Neil likes hobbies that begin with the letter "B" - bicycling, beekeeping, boating and bagpiping among them.

Tony

Tony

Head of European Sales

Tony is a seasoned client relationship and sales executive in the finance space. When his head is not down working through the docs you will find Tony hiking on and around the South Downs. In a previous life as a Securitization Consultant, Tony had to plough through many a legal doc himself. He certainly understands the pain points and the time it takes to navigate and digest.

Dave

Dave

Head of Customer Success

Dave's journey within structured finance has included roles in corporate trust banking, rating agency, portfolio management, and insurance risk management. During this time, he read stacks of deal docs and learned to break down complex information into bite-size pieces. Dave often uses these nuggets in colorful training sessions which include using jet fuel capacity to conceptually explain overcollateralization.