SMH Capital Markets Investment Banking
Investment In Common.
Mission
Collaborate with growing middle market companies by deploying our integrated investment banking resources to foster their financial and strategic success.
Full Service Investment Banking
SMH Capital Markets, Investment Banking Group, is a full-service investment bank providing middle-market companies with private placements and public offerings of equity and debt securities, as well as financial-advisory services in connection with mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalizations.
Optimally serving middle market clients with the ideal combination of retail and institutional distribution, SMH Capital's full service investment banking platform participates in all levels of the client's capital structure.
Whether it's helping to consummate an acquisition, monetize an asset; refinance existing debt, or issue equity, every senior investment banker at SMH will act as "financial advisors" to each client, bringing a "solutions" approach to meeting client objectives, both long and short-term.
The firm provides a full spectrum of investment banking services, including raising capital, research coverage, creating liquidity, trading and market making, merger and acquisition advisory services, sales support, and investor conferences.
Competitive Advantages
Investing In Common
SMH Capital Markets actively invests through firm managed accounts and client accounts in essentially all of our transactions.
Execution
Unlike many of SMH's larger Wall Street and commercial banking competitors, senior members of the team are substantively involved in every aspect of the client's transaction backed by a deal team of talented and capable individuals.
Extensive Distribution Network Supports All Transactions
Our extensive distribution network is comprised of our Institutional Group, Middle Markets Group and our nationwide retail brokerage network. We enable our client’s to achieve their objectives in terms of shareholder base, leveraging our understanding of institutional and hedge fund investors.
Post Offering Support
SMH Capital offers post transaction support through Equity and Fixed Income Research as well as through our Institutional Sales and Trading platform.
Experienced Team
The SMH Capital Markets Investment Banking group has a high concentration of Managing Directors giving us an inherent advantage over other firms to identify and process unique shareholder considerations and capital structures found in the complex transactions of the middle market.
We offer a team of seasoned investment bankers with a depth of experience from firms including: Bear Stearns & Co, Citigroup's Smith Barney, E. F. Hutton & Co., Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays Capital, Gruntal & Co., Jefferies & Company, JP Morgan Chase H&Q's, Kemper Securities, Kidder Peabody, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Warburg Pincus, M.A. Schapiro, Keefe Bruyette & Woods, Advest and Putnam Lovell NBF.
Middle Market Expertise
The SMH Capital Markets Investment Banking Group was formed to provide sophisticated corporate finance talent and techniques to the middle market. Optimally serving middle market clients with the ideal combination of retail and institutional distribution, SMH has a full service investment banking platform that participates in all levels of the client's capital structure.
Our exclusive focus on middle-market public and growth-oriented private companies in select sectors has given us exceptional insight into the strategic, competitive, management and financial issues facing our clients; what valuations can be achieved and how deep the market interest is likely to be for sales, acquisitions and financings; and important transaction issues and how to resolve them.
Relationship Driven
We believe in long-term relationships and facilitating transactions throughout the lifecycle of a public and growth-oriented private company.
Entrepreneurial Leadership
SMH Capital Markets is led with the same entrepreneurial spirit as the firm’s clients, and offers all of the advantages of a full-service, middle-market investment firm delivered by experienced senior bankers to optimally serve clients. Whether it's helping to consummate an acquisition, monetize an asset; refinance existing debt, or issue equity, every senior investment banker at SMH will act as "financial advisors" to each client, bringing a "solutions" approach to meeting client objectives, both long and short-term.
Location
SMH Capital Markets Investment Banking is headquartered in New York with regional offices in Los Angeles and Houston. We service clients nationally and internationally from all three office locations.
About SMH Capital Markets
SMH Capital Markets provides corporate and investment banking services to affluent private investors, institutions, and middle-market corporations. SMH Capital Markets offers a full range of services including: private placements and public offerings of equity and debt securities, financial advisory services, institutional equity sales, trading, and research, as well as prime brokerage services for hedge funds and fixed income securities sales and trading.
SMH Capital Inc. is a registered broker-dealer and a subsidiary of Sanders Morris Harris Group (Nasdaq: SMHG) (member FINRA/SIPC).
Sanders Morris Harris Group is a financial services holding company headquartered in Houston that manages approximately $16 billion in client assets. The subsidiaries and affiliates of Sanders Morris Harris Group deliver superior wealth advisory, asset management, and capital markets services to individual and institutional investors and middle-market companies. Its operating entities are Dickenson Group, Edelman Financial Center, Salient Partners, Salient Trust Co. LTA, SMH Capital, SMH Capital Advisors, Select Sports Group, and The Rikoon Group. Sanders Morris Harris Group has over 610 employees in 21 states. Additional information is available at www.smhgroup.com.
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