Next‑Gen Dealmakers

From TriMas's M&A pipeline to Cascade Partners' youngest-ever managing director

Splunk–Cisco, HashiCorp–IBM, Smartsheet — a landmark software run, now at Raine

From Stevens quant-finance grad to director on RBC's media and entertainment banking desk

Sold Lifetime Quality Roofing to Trilantic and Latite to Sun Capital amid a roofing M&A wave

Analyst-to-partner in 12 years, leading William Blair's European business services M&A

Co-founded Alantra's Paris office; French mid-cap deals from EUR 30 million to EUR 2 billion

On the JPMorgan side of the $44 billion Twitter buyout and the $25 billion Palo Alto-CyberArk deal

Launched Cascadia Capital's sponsor group before making the jump to BMO

Summer intern to VP in six years, now expanding Objective's consumer M&A practice

More than $25 billion across 15-plus digital-infrastructure deals

From Goldman FIG to a Deal of the Year mandate in Raymond James' Technology & Services group

From valuing 300+ middle-market companies to closing a Global M&A Deal of the Year

Lifted his logistics-tech M&A franchise from DC Advisory to Raymond James in a 2023 team move

From the $750M EP Minerals sale to the MD ranks of Harris Williams' industrials desk

Heads transaction advisory at Portage Point, diligencing deals from $5M to more than $1B

Navy engineer turned Harris Williams MD advising automation and machine-health deals

Restructuring MD guiding distressed middle-market companies at Portage Point after AlixPartners

Leads Raymond James's European digital consumer desk — sell-side on the €72M Szallas exit

Co-led the Tide Rock–FR Conversions sale named 2023 M&A Advisor Deal of the Year ($50MM–$75MM)

From J.P. Morgan's Latin America M&A desk to Capstone's consumer middle market, via Rio

Runs MelCap's middle-market sale processes end to end, receivership deals included

From packaging mandates to leading Capstone's EHS coverage, 11-plus years in industrials M&A

Runs middle-market sale processes end to end at Cleveland's MelCap Partners

Three founder-owned exits in under a year, from roofing fasteners to geospatial software

From 2017 VP hire to MD in Raymond James's Boston tech and services M&A franchise

Steered Blink Fitness through Chapter 11 as CRO — one of a string of interim C-suite rescue mandates

Covers family- and founder-owned companies at Harris Williams; one of five bankers in its 2025 MD class

~$250 billion of spin-offs and carve-outs from Morgan Stanley's separations desk

Global co-head of secondaries advisory at Goldman Sachs — a 2025 Business Insider Rising Star

Morgan Stanley's equity syndicate seat behind the Figma, Chime, and CoreWeave IPOs

A decade covering consumer and retail M&A at Goldman Sachs, made managing director in 2022

Advised Crash Champions on its Clearlake-backed merger with Service King; now a Harris Williams MD

100-plus diligence engagements on deals from $5 million to north of $10 billion

Leads Raymond James' Impact Technology practice — M&A and capital raises for nonprofit tech

More than 500 closed deals supported from Generational's buy-side coverage desk

From MelCap intern to managing director, with nearly 10 self-originated middle-market deals

On the Capstone team behind PKF O'Connor Davies' Investcorp and PSP growth investment

Built Objective's Aerospace & Defense coverage vertical inside its middle-market M&A practice

Co-advisor on a $1.2 billion Tyson Foods sale to General Mills — Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2023

$90 billion Broadcom-VMware, from the J.P. Morgan side — and now a freshly minted MD

Roughly 50 deals across sectors, a generalist in a specialist's business

Closed the Barnhart–SMG recap named 2024 Atlas Awards Lower Mid-Markets Deal of the Year

Bet on secondaries in 2015, then co-founded Jefferies' Private Capital Advisory team in 2021

Heads Lincoln's consumer services practice; led Johnny Clean's sale to Warburg-backed El Car Wash

Associate-to-VP rise at Industria Partners, Denver's energy-and-industrials M&A boutique

Advised The Dodge Company on its $57 million sale to Matthews International

Runs Barclays' EMEA media and internet coverage after making the bank's 2022 MD class

UBS M&A banker on GardaWorld's contested G4S bid and British Land's Life Science REIT takeover

Adviser to FedEx, UPS, and Uber Freight, now leading BNP Paribas's North America infra desk

Runs Chapter 11 and out-of-court workouts from SierraConstellation's New York restructuring desk