The Silverfern Group has continued the expansion of its senior merchant banking team with the addition of Kevin Smith, the former group head of diversified industrials and business serv
The Silverfern Group has continued the expansion of its senior merchant banking team with the addition of Kevin Smith, the former group head of diversified industrials and business services banking at Wachovia Securities.
Smith (pictured) brings over 15 years of mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance experience to the Silverfern team. Over the course of his career he has provided financial advice to a wide range of both public and private companies in the diversified industrial and business services sectors. His key sub-sectors of expertise include capital goods, flow control, industrial technology, and energy services, as well as having experience in the industrial and consumer services sectors.
Prior to joining Silverfern, Smith spent four years at Wachovia Securities as group head of the diversified industrials and business services team within Wachovia’s investment banking group. He completed a broad array of transactions on Wachovia’s universal banking platform, specialising in leveraged buyouts and capital raising for growth initiatives and acquisitions. Prior to Wachovia, Smith spent 12 years at JP Morgan Chase in the diversified industrial group where he advised and financed large-cap multi-national corporations.
Based in New York, Smith leads Silverfern’s diversified industrial merchant banking business.
Silverfern chairman and chief executive Clive Holmes says: ‘Kevin’s deep experience in the diversified industrials sector combined with his knowledge of how to effectively work with client chief executives adds another key dimension to The Silverfern Group’s unique value proposition to its clients – combining exclusive access to robust proprietary deal flow with the highest levels of Wall Street advice and negotiating deal experience. At a time when proprietary deal origination is more valuable than ever, Kevin’s relationships will be an increasingly important resource for our clients.’
The Silverfern Group is an independently owned merchant bank specialising in originating and structuring proprietary (non-auction) buy-side M&A opportunities, private equity fundraising, and through its affiliates Silverfern Co-Investment Partners and Silverfern Debt Advisors in making private equity co-investments and debt investments with relationship corporates and private equity firms worldwide.