William Blair, a global boutique with expertise in investment banking, investment management, and private wealth management, has launched a Private Capital Advisory practice.
William Blair, a global boutique with expertise in investment banking, investment management, and private wealth management, has launched a Private Capital Advisory practice.
The practice expands the firm’s financial sponsor advisory platform to provide financial sponsor clients with highly relevant and differentiated strategic advice and offer them fund placement, direct equity capital-raising (directs and co-invests), and secondary solutions on a global basis.
Veteran secondaries adviser Mike Custar joins the firm as a managing director, head of Private Capital Advisory in New York to lead the practice. Custer will be joined by Quinn Kolberg and a team of secondaries experts who will be responsible for GP-led secondaries. The Private Capital Advisory team will work alongside William Blair’s global team of 25 financial sponsor coverage and advisory professionals and more than 550 sector- and product-focused bankers.
