Alex Makowski joined BAM in 2012 as its first General Counsel, and oversaw legal and regulatory affairs and related corporate projects. Prior to joining BAM, he was a Managing Director at Financial Security Assurance (FSA) and later worked for Assured Guaranty, which acquired FSA in July 2009. At FSA and Assured, he played a major role in the workout of troubled municipal, international and asset-backed credits. Prior to joining FSA in 1995, he spent five years at The First Boston Corporation, where he was a Director focusing on corporate real estate. He began his legal career as an Associate in Cravath, Swaine & Moore’s corporate law department. Alex has a B. Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J.D. from Harvard University, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review.