Investment Banking
Wedbush delivers independent advice and crisp transaction execution to our growing clients within our focus industries. Coverage bankers are supported by our two specialist product groups, with a primary emphasis on four key sectors.
Advisory Services
Wedbush offers a broad range of advisory services, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and exclusive sales, corporate restructurings and recapitalizations, as well as valuations and fairness opinions.
Capital Raising Services
Wedbush’s capital raising services involve the structuring, marketing, and execution of financing transactions in the public and private markets, including debt and equity public offerings, PIPEs and registered direct offerings, as well as private placement of equity and debt securities.
EOS
Wedbush EOS is an electronic offering system that enables publicly listed companies to execute at-the-market offerings and stock buyback programs with precision and efficiency.
Industry Coverage
Our dedicated investment banking services provide coverage across four key sectors. These industry groups evaluate and execute complex transactions that create long-term shareholder value.
- Life Sciences
- Disruptive Technology, Media, and Sports
- Consumer & Diversified Industries
- Financial Institutions & Real Estate (“FIRE”)
Life Sciences
Wedbush PacGrow has focused on servicing the financial needs of public and private healthcare companies for 30 years. The group specializes in numerous segments of the healthcare industry and companies at all stages of development, including:
BIOPHARMA
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
LIFE SCIENCE TOOLS
DIAGNOSTICS
We have a full spectrum of capabilities, including public equity, PIPEs, ATMs, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic advisory. Our Healthcare Investment Banking professionals have deep healthcare-sector expertise, broad venture and private-equity relationships, and proven capital raising and advisory transaction experience in their sectors.
Team
Benjamin Davey
Managing Director, Head of Equity Capital Markets
Kelly Lisbakken
Managing Director, Life Sciences Investment Banking
Dan Bowen
Managing Director, Life Sciences Investment Banking
Life Sciences Investment Banking Transactions
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Announced
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Disruptive Technology, Media, and Sports
Wedbush’s Disruptive Technology, Media, & Sports (TMS) team delivers a complete range of investment banking and institutional equities capabilities. Whether a client is backed by leading investors or the founding entrepreneur, our goal is the same—to create a tailored process that allows shareholders to achieve their desired goals.
Our Technology, Media, & Sports Investment Banking professionals have industry-wide corporate relationships, deep sector expertise, broad venture & private equity relationships, and proven capital raising & advisory transaction experience in the technology sector.
Team
Lisa McClure Byrnes
Managing Director, TMS Investment Banking
Michael Janovec
Managing Director, TMS Investment Banking
Sameer Karim
Managing Director, TMS Investment Banking
Moshe Katri
Managing Director, TMS Investment Banking
Phil Kwun
Managing Director, TMS Investment Banking
Rick Sherlund
Senior Advisor, TMS Investment Banking
Lowell Bleiweiss
Senior Vice President, TMS Investment Banking
Disruptive Technology, Media, and Sports Investment Banking Transactions
ADR Offering
At-the-Market Offering
Senior Secured Notes
Consumer & Diversified Industries
Wedbush’s Consumer & Diversified Industries Group is focused on serving the financial needs of both public and private consumer companies. The group works with emerging growth and founder-owned, venture and private equity sponsor-backed, and public clients across the consumer sector, providing a full suite of products with a focus on mergers & acquisitions advisory services, private equity, and public offerings.
CONSUMER PRODUCTS & SERVICES
RESTAURANTS
INTERNET RETAIL & ECOMMERCE
AUTO & POWERSPORT
APPAREL & FOOTWEAR
ENTHUSIAST & ACTIVE LIFESTYLE
Team
Patrick Furlong
Managing Director, Consumer & Diversified Industries
Dan Shea
Managing Director, Consumer & Diversified Industries
Consumer & Diversified Industries Investment Banking Transactions
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Strategic Transaction
Senior Notes
Financial Institutions & Real Estate (“FIRE”)
The Wedbush Financial Institutions & Real Estate (FIRE) group is one of the most experienced practicing on Wall Street. FIRE’s knowledge of multiple financial business models and their interplay within the economic cycle allows them to provide valuable perspectives to investor or issuer clients. FIRE’s long-standing reputation and trusted relationships in the financial community provide Wedbush’s clients with global access to industry thought leaders, who can refine and help shape a client’s objectives. The FIRE team has been involved in numerous watershed financing and M&A transactions, particularly involving companies with rapid growth attributes and disrupting technologies.
Our FIRE franchise includes equity research analysts covering 70+ public companies in the following sectors:
SPECIALTY FINANCE
GAMING, LODGING & LEISURE
BANKS, HOMEBUILDERS & REITS
Team
Kamal R. Bajoria
Managing Director, Financial Institutions & Real Estate Investment Banking
Michael Murrer
Managing Director, Financial Institutions & Real Estate Investment Banking
FIRE Investment Banking Transactions
Senior Secured Second Lien Notes
Asset-Backed Notes Offering
Asset-Backed Notes Offering
Product Groups:
Our specialist product groups support our industry coverage teams with deep technical expertise in debt and equity financing. Together, they deliver comprehensive capital markets solutions tailored to each client's strategic objectives.
Debt Markets & Advisory
Wedbush’s Debt Markets & Advisory team offers comprehensive debt financing advisory and execution services to public and private companies, delivering solutions that are tailored to each client’s specific needs. Our team supports management throughout the transaction process, including pre-transaction strategy, financial analysis & modeling, data room preparation, rating agency interface, lender outreach, transaction structuring & negotiation, due diligence coordination, legal advisor management, and closing coordination. Our approach is product-agnostic, ensuring that recommendations on financing strategy are always aligned with the client’s best interests.
PRIVATE CREDIT
TERM LOAN B
PUBLIC / 144A BOND ISSUANCE
SUBORDINATED DEBT
PREFERRED EQUITY
VENTURE DEBT
STRUCTURED ROYALTY
PRIVATE ABS
Equity Capital Markets
The Wedbush Equity Capital Markets Platform is involved in the structuring, marketing, and execution of equity & equity-linked financing in the public and private market, including IPOs, follow-ons, registered direct offerings, and ATMs.
Investment Banking Leadership
Burke Dempsey
Executive Vice President, Head of Investment Banking & Capital Markets
Burke Dempsey is Executive Vice President and Head of Investment Banking & Capital Markets for Wedbush Securities Inc. His personal specialty is investment banking for financial institutions and fintech companies. He is a member of Wedbush’s President’s Executive, Underwriting, and Fairness Opinion Committees. During his 39 years of covering financial services, tech, media, and analytics companies, he has executed over 300+ publicly announced transactions worth approximately $75 billion and was honored as a Leader of Influence by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Mr. Dempsey has helped companies position for and execute watershed mergers and IPOs.
Before joining Wedbush, Mr. Dempsey was Managing Director and co-head of Financial Institutions at Sterne Agee, Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., and a Managing Director at UBS, heading their fintech efforts.
Mr. Dempsey holds a bachelor’s degree in Applied Earth Science from Stanford University. He holds his Series 7, 24, and 63 licenses.
