Diversified Industries

The ADGS Investment Banking Group advises entrepreneurs, private equity firms and public and private companies serving the commercial aerospace, space, defense and government services sectors.  The team initiates, structures, and negotiates mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures as well as public and private debt and equity capital raises. Our success is driven by deep industry knowledge and broad sector relationships developed through the team’s 20+ years of serving the ADGS industry.  Our extensive sector experience and relationships combined with Stifel’s full service investment banking capabilities give us the ability to develop creative solutions to complex situations and transactions. The ADGS team has completed over 150 transactions worth in excess of $20B over the course of their careers.

With deep industry experience and a home office in St. Louis, a city entrenched in agricultural products and technologies, Stifel is a major player in assisting ag tech companies with capital raising, financing, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and more. Our success is driven by expertise refined over countless transactions and an unparalleled dedication to client services. Our network of public and private industry contacts and extensive knowledge of the industry enable us to develop creative solutions for complex situations and transactions.

Stifel’s Automotive team provides advisory and capital-raising services to leading global automotive OEMs, automotive suppliers, electrification and autonomous technology providers and financial sponsors. The team provides advice and execution on mergers & acquisitions, underwriting in the public and private equity and debt capital markets, and other financial advisory services, including fairness opinions and restructuring advisory through our wholly owned affiliate Miller Buckfire. The team consists of senior investment bankers who leverage their industry relationships and extensive transaction experience to deliver proactive ideas in a rapidly evolving global market.

The Building Products Investment Banking Group initiates, structures, and negotiates mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and raises equity and debt in the public and private capital markets.  We are committed to working with industry leaders in the light building products, home furnishings and heavy construction materials sectors.  We understand how to position businesses that are driven by residential and non-residential construction and repair and remodeling spending, and we have broad experience working with companies navigating multi-channel distribution, including home centers, dealers, e-commerce marketplaces and consumers.  During the past five years, our team has completed 25 transactions generating more than $5 billion in consideration. 

The Business Services Investment Banking Group initiates, structures, and negotiates mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures as well as raises debt and equity. Our investment banking is specialized to serve companies across numerous product and service markets. Our network of public and private industry contacts and extensive knowledge of the industry enable us to develop creative solutions for complex situations and transactions.

Stifel’s team of capital goods investment banking professionals leverages deep industry expertise and longstanding relationships to provide clients with unparalleled service and sound guidance. With experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, restructuring, advisory services, and more, Stifel serves as a trusted partner to companies in the capital goods space.

Stifel’s Education Services & Technology Investment Banking Group offers full-service investment banking solutions to leading private and public companies in the education and knowledge sectors.  These sectors include education technology, content and publishing, corporate training, early childcare, K-12, post-secondary and continuing education. Stifel offers both domestic and international clients advice and execution on public offerings, private capital, leveraged finance, mergers & acquisitions, restructurings, and more. Our experience and extensive knowledge of the industry enable us to develop creative solutions for complex situations and transactions.

The Engineering, Construction and Infrastructure Services Investment Banking Group focuses on differentiated service providers that specialize on their skilled employee base, specialized fleet or capital base, and/or niche infrastructure end-market exposure. The group offers a broad range of products and services, including mergers and acquisitions advisory, fairness opinions, public and private equity, restructuring advisory, debt and convertibles. Over the past five years, our team has completed over 25 transactions worth in excess of $5 billion.

Stifel’s Industrial & Environmental Services investment banking team provides a full range of financial advisory and capital raising services to public and private companies and their shareholders. The team consists of senior investment bankers who leverage their industry relationships, extensive transaction experience, and product expertise to deliver proactive ideas, sound advice, and superior execution for their clients. Team members have completed over 150 transactions worth in excess of $140 billion over the past fifteen years in numerous sectors.

As a leading full-service investment bank, Stifel maintains relationships with the most influential business executives and financial sponsors in the Industrial Technology sector. Stifel’s Industrial Technology investment banking team provides in-depth coverage of a variety of Industrial Technology sub-sectors, including Industrial Electronics, Flow Control and Engineered Components. Stifel’s Industrial Technology team maintains one of the most active franchises on the street, with over 50 transactions completed in the past decade. 

Stifel’s Legal Services Team is the largest investment banking team focused exclusively on legal funding in Europe. Our team of professionals are dedicated solely to law firms and litigation finance and has advised on multiple transactions across the capital structure (debt and equity, private and public), across the investment banking product set (public equity, private equity, M&A, structured debt), and across the globe (U.S., UK, continental Europe).

 We advised Gerchen Keller on its disposal to Burford (the largest M&A deal in the sector to date), led the IPO of DWF (the premium listed international legal business) onto the Main List of the London Stock Exchange, and have raised hundreds of millions of dollars via structured private credit transactions for litigation finance platforms, giving us an unrivalled understanding of private cost of capital.

The Maritime Investment Banking Group provides advisory and capital-raising services to leading U.S. and international companies and financial sponsors. The Group offers its clients advice and execution on mergers & acquisitions, underwriting for public and private equity and debt capital, and other financial advisory services, including fairness opinions and restructuring advisory through our wholly owned affiliate Miller Buckfire. The Group's clients include international and U.S. flag shipping companies, offshore oil service providers, port operators, and transportation equipment leasing companies.

The Packaging Group provides full-service investment banking solutions, including mergers & acquisitions advisory, fairness opinions, public and private equity, debt, and convertibles. Our senior investment banking team has decades of experience working across both the strategic and private equity landscape, including relevant experience with flexible and rigid packaging, labels, paper packaging, packaging equipment, distribution, services and more.

The Paper & Forest Products Banking Group provides full-service investment banking solutions, including mergers & acquisitions advisory, fairness opinions, public and private equity, debt, and convertibles. Our senior investment banking professionals have deep relationships with industry participants and have completed numerous advisory and financing transactions across the sector.

The Specialty Distribution Group serves client companies that operate a range of business models across diverse end markets. Stifel's specialty distribution clients are an essential part of the global supply chain and touch all aspects of the worldwide economy. Our senior investment banking team's deep specialty distribution industry knowledge and global relationships, paired with its extensive transaction experience with both strategic and private equity buyers, drive market-leading outcomes for clients.

The Transportation & Logistics Group provides a full range of financial advisory and capital raising services to public and private companies and their shareholders.  The team serves global non-asset-based and asset-based businesses, including air and ocean freight forwarders, transportation management services providers, and value-added warehousing and distribution companies as well as truckload and less-than-truckload carriers, railroads, and air cargo companies. Our deep transportation and logistics industry knowledge and global relationships, paired with our extensive transaction experience, drive market-leading outcomes for our clients.

The Vehicle Electrification team provides advisory and capital-raising services to leading global electric light vehicle OEMs, electric commercial vehicle OEMs, electric vehicle services providers and suppliers of electric vehicle components, battery technologies, charging technologies and related systems. The Group offers its clients advice and execution on Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) mergers and Private Placement of Public Equity (PIPE) transactions, mergers & acquisitions, underwriting in the public and private equity and debt capital markets, and other financial advisory services.