Bio

Stevan Grubic has over 15 years of middle-market investment banking experience providing financial and strategic analysis for a broad range of financial advisory mandates, including buy and sell side M&A, private placements, recapitalizations, distressed situations and business valuations/fairness opinions. He has participated in or directly managed over $400 million in transactional and sourced capital and completed over 100 business valuations and related strategic analyses representing well over $1.0 billion in asset values. Stevan’s most recent transactions include M&A, corporate finance and/or valuations for clients such as: Enerliance, Interush, FEX DMS, TS Restaurants, CVE Technology and Earthbar. Additionally, as an accredited senior appraiser with the American Society of Appraisers (ASA), Stevan is an expert in all aspects of business valuations, including fairness opinions, fair value accounting treatments, option and warrant pricing and intangible assets and other intellectual property. Prior to joining Optivest IB, Steve was with the regional accounting firm of SingerLewak. Previously Stevan was a Senior Vice President with the Los Angeles-based investment banking firm of B. Riley & Co., a leading, full-service regional securities broker-dealer and investment bank. Stevan was also formerly with the investment banking firms of L.H. Friend Weinress, Frankson & Presson and North American Capital Partners. Stevan Grubic received his B.S in Finance and Business Economics from the University of Southern California.