Daniel Toscano is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and is Head of Global Leveraged and Acquisition Finance. He has responsibility for originating and distributing leveraged loan and high yield bond financings around the world and in all industry sectors. Dan joined Morgan Stanley in 2010 with twenty years of prior experience in leveraged finance origination, execution and distribution. He is a member of the Global Capital Markets Operating Committee, the Investment Banking Division Management Committee, and is a voting member of the Capital Commitment Committee.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Dan was a Managing Director and Group Head at Deutsche Bank Securities and its predecessor, Bankers Trust. At Deutsche Bank for over 15 years, Dan was responsible for the Senior Debt Capital Markets group in North America including the origination, underwriting, distribution and trading of floating rate debt. Dan became Group Head in 2002 and served on the North American Investment Banking Management Committee, the Global Capital Markets Americas Management Committee and was a voting member of the Capital Commitments Committee.

Dan and his teams have won countless awards and honors over the years, including IFR’s Global Leveraged Loan House, U.S. Leveraged Finance House and Global High Yield House. Morgan Stanley was honored in 2018 and again in 2019 as US High Yield Bond House of the Year. The team also won North America Leveraged Loan in 2019.

Dan is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Connecticut and he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the UConn Foundation, the principal philanthropic fundraising and investment management organization for the University of Connecticut.

Dan resides in Darien, CT with his wife Tresa and their 3 children.