Bio

Steve has nearly 25 years of investment banking experience executing complex sales, mergers, divestitures and recapitalizations completing over 100 transactions with an aggregate transaction value in excess of $6 billion. Clients have included entrepreneurs, family-held businesses, private equity firms, closely-held corporations and large and small public companies. These clients have spanned a wide variety of industries, including industrial products and services, building products, oil field services, healthcare, consumer products, and food. Steve started his investment banking career as a partner with Belmont Associates, Inc., a boutique merchant banking operation in Minneapolis. At Belmont, he managed projects to raise debt and equity and supported daily portfolio company operations. In 1998, Steve transitioned to focusing entirely on sell-side M&A advisory joining Goldsmith Agio Helms, (now Lazard Middle Market). Steve was a Managing Director and a co-head of Industrials at Lazard Middle Market before departing to co-found the Craig-Hallum M&A Group within the Craig-Hallum Capital Group where he was co-head of M&A with two of his current partners. In 2018, Steve co-founded Hennepin Partners when Craig-Hallum’s M&A Group combined with Quetico Partners (all former colleagues and friends from Lazard Middle Market). Steve graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a BA in economics.