A Broad Range of Services

KBW’s Investment Banking practice provides a broad range of highly regarded investment banking services to banking companies, insurance companies, broker/dealers, mortgage banks, asset management companies, REITs, specialty finance firms, and securities exchanges. For more than two decades, we have regularly been the most active merger and acquisition advisor, a leader in debt and equity financings and balance sheet restructuring for financial services companies, and an authority on mutual thrift and insurance company conversions.

Our Investment Banking practice is based on long-term relationships developed by the department’s 75 professionals operating from offices in New York, London, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Hartford, Richmond, and Columbus. Many have been with us for more than ten years. Each offers clients access to the full scope of KBW’s capabilities.

KBW Investment Banking Services:

• M&A Advisory
• General Advisory
• Equity Capital Markets
• Fixed Income Capital Markets
• Structured Finance
• Mutual Thrift and Insurance Company Conversions

KBW Innovation

The intensity of our focus on the financial services industry and the depth of our professionals’ experience enable KBW to produce groundbreaking work when traditional solutions fall short of achieving a client’s goals. We produce innovative insights in each of our areas of endeavor, from individual company research to complex capital markets transactions.

Our co-development with First Tennessee Bank of Preferred Term Securities (PreTSLs) illustrates the creativity we bring to bear on our clients’ behalf. Our Investment Banking Group helped develop PreTSLs to provide community and regional banks and thrifts with access to the market for trust preferred stock through pools of trust preferred securities. We later adopted this approach to meet insurers’ capital-raising needs with I-PreTSLs. KBW remains the market leader for these innovative products today.

KBW Reach

Whenever something new happens in the financial services industry, chances are KBW has a finger on its pulse. With offices throughout the United States and in London, KBW professionals are positioned to provide clients with locally-based services, while keeping in close touch with developments in major financial centers. Our international research presence enables us to compare financial companies on a global basis for investment and transactional purposes.

In addition to the firm’s broad geographic presence, KBW reaches out to clients in countless other ways, from the publication of periodic research reports to Internet-based information resources. We sponsor hundreds of client events each year, showcasing financial services industry executives to colleagues and influential investors. Our "Bruyette Dinners," originated by one of the firm’s founders, provide an informal forum for the exchange of ideas among senior industry executives.

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