Bio

Jamie has over 20 years of legal and investment banking experience executing mergers, acquisitions, corporate divestitures and recapitalizations, completing nearly 100 transactions with an aggregate transaction value in excess of $5 billion. Clients have included family-held businesses, private equity firms, entrepreneurs, closely-held corporations and large and small public companies. These clients have spanned a wide variety of industries, including consumer products and services, industrial products, business services and healthcare. Jamie started his investment banking career with Goldsmith, Agio, Helms (now Lazard Middle Market) in 1999 and was most recently the head of the Consumer practice. Jamie co-founded the Craig-Hallum M&A Group within the Craig-Hallum Capital Group where he was co-head of M&A with one of his current partners. Jamie co-founded Hennepin Partners in 2018 with a number of former Lazard colleagues. Prior to his investment banking career, Jamie practiced law with the law firms of Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis and Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. in Milwaukee. Jamie’s law practice centered in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings and general corporate law. Jamie is a member of both the Minnesota Bar and the Wisconsin Bar and is a frequent speaker on topics relating to mergers and acquisitions. In 2018, Jamie co-founded Hennepin Partners when Craig-Hallum’s M&A Group combined with Quetico Partners (all former colleagues and friends from Lazard Middle Market). Jamie received his undergraduate degree from Marquette University and received his J.D., with distinction, from the University of Iowa College of Law.