Vasanta B. Pundarika

Vasanta has extensive healthcare investment banking experience, advising clients on a variety of engagements, including mergers and acquisitions and both tax-exempt and taxable financing solutions. She has also focused on providing broader ongoing strategic advisory services to healthcare clients, including developing strategic capital plans and performing strategic options assessments.

Her clients across the country are primarily not-for-profit providers, including academic medical centers, integrated healthcare delivery systems, multi-hospital systems, single-site hospitals, behavioral healthcare companies, long-term care facilities, and ancillary healthcare service providers.

Vasanta joined Raymond James in April 2012 following the Firm’s acquisition of Morgan Keegan and joined Morgan Keegan in 2007 with the acquisition of Shattuck Hammond Partners. Prior to joining Shattuck Hammond Partners in 2006, Vasanta was a Summer Legal Analyst at Shearman & Sterling, LLP. She earned an A.B. in Anthropology from Princeton University. She is a registered Series 7, Series 50 and Series 63 representative.