Capital Markets Technology & Services
Raymond James’ Capital Markets Technology & Services investment banking practice focuses on high-quality retail and institutional brokerage firms; a wide variety of trading firms, including equity and derivatives market makers, high-frequency trading firms, and other proprietary trading businesses; global securities and derivatives exchanges, ECNs, and alternative trading systems; and technology firms providing software, financial data, IT services and related products to the capital markets and asset management industry.
Over the past five years, our team has developed meaningful experience working with many different derivatives trading firms, online brokerage firms and capital markets technology firms. Our recent experience has been concentrated in technology-oriented trading and brokerage firms, and our clients tell us they appreciate our ability to find creative solutions that help ensure success in complex transactions. Our team brings hands-on transaction experience and significant relationships with firms in a broad group of sub-sectors, including:
- Online brokerage firms,
- Equity and derivatives trading firms,
- Liquidity venues including equity and derivatives exchanges,
- Proprietary trading firms,
- Institutional brokerage firms,
- Futures commission merchants (FCMs),
- Foreign exchange brokerage and trading firms,
- Clearing firms,
- Investor education businesses,
- Financial data and other investor information firms,
- Investment management software and services businesses, and
- Trading platforms, software and front/back office services and solutions.
Our Capital Markets Technology & Services investment banking team offers fully customized advice relating to public and private capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, whole company and divisional valuation, and broad strategic financial advisory. Raymond James Investment Banking has been working with clients in this sector for more than 15 years. Our investment bankers in the capital markets technology and services sector have significant experience directly participating in approximately 30 capital raising and advisory engagements for capital markets businesses; they have successfully helped clients execute transactions representing more than $3.9 billion in transaction value.*
Every week, our investment banking team distributes the “Capital Markets Technology and Services Weekly Monitor,” which summarizes current market valuations for public companies and recent merger and acquisition activity across many sectors of the capital markets technology and services universe. Please contact one of the investment bankers listed on this site if you would like to be added to this distribution.
Independent from the Investment Banking department, the Raymond James Equity Research department also distributes in-depth research on publicly traded capital markets technology and services companies on an ongoing basis.
Banker Contacts:
Michael H. Jones – Managing Director
Mark E. Peterson – Senior Vice President
Michael H. Jones
Managing Director
Sector Focus: Specialty Finance and Capital Markets Technology & Services
Chicago
312-612-7696
michael.jones@raymondjames.com
Mr. Jones joined Raymond James & Associates in 2000 as a member of the Financial Institutions Group. Prior to joining the firm, he worked for seven years in the investment banking department of ABN AMRO Inc., where he also worked with financial services companies. Prior to that, Jones spent six years in the debt markets division at Merrill Lynch & Co. in their New York and Chicago offices. While at Merrill Lynch, he originated debt, asset-backed and selected equity securities for finance companies, banks, thrifts, industrial corporations and utilities. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Cornell University and holds an M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mark Peterson
Senior Vice President
Sector Focus: Insurance and Capital Markets Technology & Services
Chicago
312-612-7700
mark.peterson@raymondjames.com
Mr. Peterson joined the Raymond James & Associates Financial Institutions Group in 1999 and has been active in public equity offerings, mergers and acquisitions and financial advisory assignments. Prior to joining Raymond James, he worked for five years in ABN AMRO Inc.’s corporate finance group. He is a graduate of Colorado College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics.
Patrick D. Curran
Managing Director
Sector Focus: Capital Markets Technology
Boston
617-624-7072
pat.curran@raymondjames.com
Mr. Curran joined Raymond James & Associates in 2009. Previously, he was a managing director at Lane, Berry & Co. International, where he focused on financial services technology, business services and financial services companies. He was also head of private equity for Lane Berry and oversaw the firm's merchant banking activities. Before joining Lane Berry, Mr. Curran was a partner at Great Hill Partners, where he specialized in technology-enabled business services investments. He has also worked for UBS Securities as head of IT services corporate finance (formerly UBS Warburg Dillon Read), Wasserstein Perella & Co. and Bankers Trust Company. Prior to Wall Street, Mr. Curran was with Ernst and Young, where he received his CPA designation. Mr. Curran received his BS from Boston College in 1984 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1991.
Brendan T. Ryan
Vice President
Sector Focus: Capital Markets Technology
Boston
617-624-7019
brendan.ryan@raymondjames.com
Mr. Ryan joined Raymond James and Associates in 2009. Previously, he was a vice president at Lane, Berry & Co. International, where he focused on the capital markets technology, transaction processing and managed IT services sectors. Before joining Lane Berry, Mr. Ryan was a summer associate in Bear Stearns’ leveraged finance group. Prior to that, Mr. Ryan was an associate and analyst with Landmark Partners, where he concentrated on the firm’s private equity secondary acquisition program with specific focus on the venture capital and leveraged buyout markets. He received his AB from Bowdoin College in 1999 and his MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business in 2005.
*Past performance is not indicative of future results.