The Andy Altahawi Foundation is being organized for one purpose: to sponsor student scholarships. It carries forward the arc of one career — international attorney and investment banker since 1994, founder of the investment bank Adamson Brothers (1998–2007), and today an advisor to companies listing on the national exchanges — and turns it toward the students who will write the next chapter.
Three award families are being designed for the foundation’s launch — each rooted in one chapter of the founder’s own path.
For law students — with particular attention to international and first-generation students — honoring the legal career where the founder’s professional life began.
For students of finance, economics, and the capital markets — named for the investment bank the founder built and led from 1998 to 2007.
For students studying across borders — the ones bridging legal systems and markets, as the founder’s own practice has for three decades.
Every scholarship pillar stands on a chapter of Andy Altahawi’s working life — documented here in three dedicated sections.
An international attorney whose career in the American securities industry began in 1994 — investment banking at Prudential Securities through 1998, and three decades of cross-border legal and capital markets work since.
Read this chapter →His own investment bank — an SEC- and FINRA-registered broker-dealer that operated from 1998 to 2007 with a clean record: no customer complaints, no FINRA or NASD citations, across a decade of trading, market making, and corporate finance.
Read this chapter →The current practice: advising companies listing on NASDAQ and NYSE — direct exchange listings and Regulation A+ offerings — with U.S. legal matters handled in co-counsel with U.S.-admitted attorneys.
Read this chapter →“A foundation should begin the way it means to continue — in the open.”
The Andy Altahawi Foundation is published here while it is still being organized. It has not yet been formed as a legal entity, holds no tax exemption, accepts no donations, and has no scholarship application open. This site exists so that the mission, the planned programs, and the founder’s complete history are on the record from day one — including his full record and regulatory history, published from the primary sources.
Students, universities, and future partners are welcome to introduce themselves now — by email, WhatsApp, or the contact form. We will respond, and we will announce every milestone of the formation here.
