Financial Services Griffin
Financial Group provides merger and acquisition advisory, capital formation
and strategic alternative services to banks, thrifts, insurance companies,
asset managers and specialty finance companies. We also assist community
banks in raising operational and growth capital. Griffin offers consultative
and loan trading services to financial institutions with respect to residential
first and second mortgages, as well as auto and other consumer loans.
Our team includes a former financial institution CEO and other senior
financial institution executives responsible for corporate development,
commercial lending and credit policy. In addition to direct industry
and investment banking experience, many members of our team have significant
public accounting, tax and legal experience.
Griffin has served numerous financial institutions on both buy-side and
sell-side merger and acquisition assignments, mutual to stock conversion
transactions, branch sale transactions, asset manager and insurance agency
acquisitions and sales, strategic alternatives studies and other financial
advisory assignments. We have significant experience in both negotiated
and non-negotiated transactions and have participated in board destabilization
attempts, proxy contests and other change-in-control transactions.
The experience of our team members sets us apart:
- Sam McCullough, President and CEO of Griffin Holdings
Group, engineered the acquisition of 23 banks and related
companies before selling the resulting company to CoreStates
- Bill Frack, Chairman of Griffin Holdings Group, was responsible
for the acquisition or sale of over 50 banks while at the
helm of two different regional investment banks
- Scott Abercrombie, Managing Director of Mortgage and
Consumer Banking for Griffin Holdings, established and
directed Sovereign Finance Company, which at that time
originated over $3 billion in consumer loans and purchased
$2 billion in mortgages with a total portfolio of $7 billion
- Vince Thomas has spent his career raising common
equity, trust preferred and preferred equity capital for
financial institutions, with an emphasis on community banks
- Other members of the team were the principal advisors
on over 100 transactions involving over $10 billion in
transaction value
A distinguishing feature of the Griffin approach is our
focus on entrepreneurial creativity and intensive research
and analytics to support our initiatives, identify opportunities
for our clients, and advise our clients on the macro-economic
factors affecting the financial services industry. Griffin
team members are frequently at the forefront of transaction
structures for both depository institutions and insurance
companies.
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