Wintrust - M&A Summary and Business Overview

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Wintrust M&A Summary

Wintrust has acquired 18 companies, including 3 in the last 5 years. A total of 1 acquisition came from private equity firms.

Wintrust’s largest acquisition to date was in 2024, when it acquired Macatawa Bank for $510M. Wintrust has acquired in 7 different US states. The Company’s most targeted sectors include financial services (89%) and business services (6%).

Wintrust Business Overview

Where is Wintrust headquartered?

Wintrust is headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois.

What is Wintrust’s revenue?

Wintrust disclosed revenue of 2,272M USD for 2023 and 1,959M USD for 2022.

How many employees does Wintrust have?

Wintrust has 5,521 employees.

What sector is Wintrust in?

Wintrust is a financial services company.

When was Wintrust founded?

Wintrust was founded in 1991.

M&A Summary

  • M&A Total Activity18
    • M&A Buy Activity18
  • Total Sectors Invested 3
  • Total Countries Invested 1
  • M&A Buy/Sell Connections 5
  • M&A Advisors 2

Wintrust

Wintrust Financial Corp.

9700 West Higgins Road, Suite 800,
Rosemont, Illinois 60018
United States,
(847) 939-9000
www.wintrust.com

Wintrust is a financial services company that provides traditional community banking services, commercial banking, wealth management services, commercial insurance premium financing, life insurance premium financing, mortgage origination, short-term accounts receivable financing, and certain administrative services, such as data processing of payrolls, billing and treasury management services. The Company serves the greater Chicago, Illinois and southern Wisconsin metropolitan areas. Wintrust was founded in 1991 and is based in Rosemont, Illinois.


M&A Summary

Buy vs Sell

Year ≤ '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 T
Buy (0.2/yr) # 17 - - - - 1 18
vol $597M $510M $1.1B
Sell (0.0/yr) # - - - - - - 0
  18

Most Recent M&A

Company Date Value Type
Macatawa Bank Corp. 2024-04-15 510M USD Merger
Holland, Michigan · www.macatawabank.com
Countryside Bank (SBC, Inc.) 2019-07-25 91M USD Add-on Acquisition
Countryside, Illinois · www.bankcountryside.com
Chicago Deferred Exchange Co. LLC 2019-02-20 - Add-on Acquisition
Chicago, Illinois · www.cdec1031.com
Reliable Medical 2018-11-18 - Recapitalization
Brooklyn Park, Minnesota · www.reliamed.com
Generations Bancorp, Inc. 2016-01-14 30M USD Add-on Acquisition
Pewaukee, Wisconsin
North Bank 2015-03-30 17M USD Add-on Acquisition
Chicago, Illinois
Delavan Bancshares, Inc. 2015-01-16 38M USD Add-on Acquisition
Delavan, Wisconsin
First Lansing Bancorp, Inc. 2013-05-01 38M USD Add-on Acquisition
Lansing, Illinois
Great Lakes Advisors, Inc. 2011-07-01 - Add-on Acquisition
Chicago, Illinois · www.greatlakesadvisors.com
Woodfield Planning Corp. 2011-02-03 - Add-on Acquisition
Rolling Meadows, Illinois
View All >>

M&A by Sector

Sector Buy # Value Sell # Value
Financial Services 16 (89%) 597M (54%) - -
Business Services 1 (6%) 510M (46%) - -
Medical Products 1 (6%) - - -
Total 18 $1.1B - -

By Geo

State/Country Buy Value Sell Value
United States 18 1.1B - -
  Illinois 9 385M - -
  Wisconsin 3 109M - -
  Michigan 1 510M - -
  Connecticut 1 9M - -
  New York 1 - - -
  Minnesota 1 - - -
Total 18 $1.1B - -

Top M&A Advisors

Legal Deals
Schiff Hardin LLP
 11
ArentFox Schiff
 1

Deal Values

buy # Total
$100M to $1B 2 $633M
< $100M 11 $474M
TOTAL $1.1B
Largest Macatawa Bank Corp.
$510M (2024-04-15)

M&A Connections

Deals
Acquired from
Investor(s)
6%
1 (6%)
Strategic(s)
6%
1 (6%)

Company Summary

SECTOR

Financial Services

Revenue

2,272   16% 2023
1,959   15% 2022
1,711   5% 2021
1,644   13% 2020
1,459   11% 2019
1,317   15% 2018
1,147   11% 2017
1,039   2016
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Employees

5,521

Established

1991

Public

NASDAQ: WTFC

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