Experience, Judgement, Candor & Insight
The Seabrook Partners’ team is comprised of professionals with backgrounds in investment banking, private equity and operations at entrepreneurial companies. Seabrook Partners’ focus on middle-market companies enables us to offer extensive senior attention to deal execution.
Brian Keane
Brian has been a co-founder and Managing Director at Seabrook Partners since January 2011. Prior to Seabrook Partners, he spent five years as a Managing Director and National Head of the Capital Strategies Group at Citigroup and then Morgan Stanley following the sale of Smith Barney by Citigroup to Morgan Stanley. The Capital Strategies Group provided M&A services to middle-market companies in the U.S. During the five years Brian ran the Group, it completed more than 110 transactions with aggregate value exceeding $3 billion.
Brian Keane
Brian has been a co-founder and Managing Director at Seabrook Partners since January 2011. Prior to Seabrook Partners, he spent five years as a Managing Director and National Head of the Capital Strategies Group at Citigroup and then Morgan Stanley following the sale of Smith Barney by Citigroup to Morgan Stanley. The Capital Strategies Group provided M&A services to middle-market companies in the U.S. During the five years Brian ran the Group, it completed more than 110 transactions with aggregate value exceeding $3 billion.
Prior to Citigroup, Brian was a co-founder and Managing Director of Claris Capital LLC, a FINRA-registered broker-dealer in McLean, VA. Claris Capital provided M&A and capital raising services to middle-market government services and technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Before Claris Capital, Brian spent three years at Aether Systems, first as Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and later as President, Enterprise Solutions Division, Aether’s largest operating division. Brian was instrumental in transforming Aether from a 20-person private company with an annual revenue run rate of $1 million into one of the leading wireless data companies in the world with annual revenues in excess of $100 million. He was responsible for managing the company’s acquisitions, joint ventures and public equity and debt offerings.
Previously, Brian was a Managing Director at Smith Barney in New York where he worked from 1988-1998. During his tenure at Smith Barney, he ran the firm’s East Coast technology group and technology mergers and acquisitions practice. Brian began his investment banking career at E.F. Hutton in 1986 and later worked for Robertson, Colman & Stephens in San Francisco.
Brian Keane
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R. Mitchell Theiss
Prior to continuing investment banking at Seabrook, Mr. Theiss has over 35 years of experience - 10 years of investment banking at Goldman Sachs, 20 years at Merrill Lynch / Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the last decade as Head of Global Industrial, Corporate and Investment Banking and 4 years as the President of Strategic Advisory at Rockefeller Capital Management.
During his career, Mr. Theiss has been involved in a wide range of investment banking activities from mergers and acquisition advisory, to capital raisings of all types – high-yield debt, IPO, follow-on equity offerings, convertible debt, leveraged lease financings and investment grade bonds.
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Prior to continuing investment banking at Seabrook, Mr. Theiss has over 35 years of experience - 10 years of investment banking at Goldman Sachs, 20 years at Merrill Lynch / Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the last decade as Head of Global Industrial, Corporate and Investment Banking and 4 years as the President of Strategic Advisory at Rockefeller Capital Management.
During his career, Mr. Theiss has been involved in a wide range of investment banking activities from mergers and acquisition advisory, to capital raisings of all types – high-yield debt, IPO, follow-on equity offerings, convertible debt, leveraged lease financings and investment grade bonds.
His experience spans many industries from materials to general industrial, and a range of clients in other industries retail, telecom, some tech and consumer. His practice focuses principally on strategic advice for CEOs, other senior leaders and Boards of Directors.
Mr. Theiss has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kentucky and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Notable Transactions
- Commercial Metals Company’s acquisition of Tensar International
- Advisory around Worthington Industries spin off
- $8.2Bn sale of Bombardier Transportation to Alstom
- Viking Global roll-up of OOH media assets into Trailhead Media
- Advised Home Depot on its $1.6Bn acquisition of Interline Brands
- Advised United Parcel Service on the $1.8Bn acquisition of Coyote Logistics
- Advised Georgia-Pacific on its $11Bn acquisition of Fort James
- Advised Nucor on the $750Mm purchase of Gallatin Mill from Gerdau and Arcelor Mittal
- Advised Commercial Metals on acquisition of selected assets from Gerdau S.A.
- Financial advisor on $2.5Bn sale of Stillwater Mining to Sibanye Gold Ltd
- Advised Roper Technologies on the acquisitions of Neptune and TransCore
- Advised on the sale of a 20% stake of Drummond Company to ITOCHU
- Advised Peabody Energy on the $5Bn acquisition of Macarthur Coal
- Advised Hecla Mining on its acquisition of Aurizon Mines
- Numerous high-yield transactions for Arch Coal, Peabody Energy, US Steel, Commercial Metals, AK Steel, Constellium, among others
- Numerous equity offerings for Arch Coal, Peabody Energy, Readers Digest, Gerdau Ameristeel, Sprint Telecommunications, Delta Air Lines, AK Steel, US Steel, Nucor, among others
- Numerous debt financings for Home Depot, Kimberly Clark, Nucor, General Motors, among others
R. Mitchell Theiss
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