OUR FIRM

We are a specialized investment bank and strategic advisory firm.

We deliver strategic, financial and transactional advice to CEOs and company managements, corporate boards, special committees, exceptional entrepreneurs and institutional investors operating in the global financial services industry including the technology companies powering them. Our advice is independent, free of conflict, bespoke and grounded in analytical rigor.

Each of our partners has been a trusted strategic and financial advisor — a banker’s banker — for more than 25 years, providing discreet, analytically-driven and creative solutions to clients in one of the largest, most dynamic and complex industries in the global economy.

In a world of overused generic Wall Street solutions, we are the source of bespoke strategic intelligence, analytical rigor, custom process design, senior-level execution and successful outcomes that you have been missing.

We encourage you to speak with some of our clients. Then let’s discuss your strategic and financial objectives.

WE ARE DIFFERENTIATED among both integrated investment banks and other independent advisory firms. Unlike the former, we align completely with our clients, avoiding conflicts by staying away from securities trading, underwriting & lending. Contrasting other advisory boutiques, our partners each have extensive capital markets and financing experience thus are positioned to advise extensively on balance sheet and capital structure matters and deliver capital and financing solutions. Also, our partners each are experienced public company, board and special committee advisors. With a relationship network spanning the globe, we advise extensively on cross-border and international client matters.

OUR PARTNERS BRING to each client engagement broad-based perspectives, technical excellence and deep, senior relationship networks embedded in and across all the major financial services industry segments including the securities industry and capital markets structure; investment banking; asset and wealth management; commercial banking and depository institutions; life, specialty and guarantor insurance; specialty finance; financial technology, data and analytics, and; financial business services. Where some bankers have worked their entire career in a single narrow financial sector, our partners were among the first to recognize the importance of cross-sector knowledge and expertise. They have dedicated their career to understanding each of the financial sectors and the interrelationships among them, and delivering clients uniquely integrated perspectives, analyses and comprehensive relationship networks.

WE ARE EXACTING about our work product, our custom engineered processes and our pursuit, in partnership with our clients, of creative solutions. Most of our new business comes via referrals. Our clients become and remain part of our extended family and knowledge ecosystem for many years and are in fact our single largest source of new business. Our reservoir of IP, applied experience and technical expertise stand apart in today’s global, multi-disciplinary and too-often-standardized marketplace.