Diversified Industries
Diversified Industries Investment Banking Group
Serving clients in the clean technology, engineering, industrial services, logistics, and packaging fields.
The Diversified Industries Investment Banking Group provides advisory and capital-raising services to companies and financial sponsors. The Group offers its clients advice and execution on mergers & acquisitions, access to public and private equity and debt capital, and other financial advisory services, including fairness opinions, in numerous industries ranging from aerospace and clean technology to engineering and logistics.
Areas of Expertise
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.
Peter Egge, Head of Diversified Industries, shares insights on AI breakthroughs, shifting investment trends, and what drives his passion after 15+ years in the field.
Read the Q&A hereNotable Transactions

Initial Public Offering
Building Products
Feb 2025

Senior Secured Credit Facilities
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Mar 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Mar 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Feb 2025

Senior Secured Credit Facilities
Packaging, Diversified Industries
Dec 2024

Senior Secured Notes
Paper & Forest Products, Diversified Industries
Dec 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Dec 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Business Services
Dec 2024

Confidentially Marketed Follow-on Offering
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Dec 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Transportation & Logistics
Dec 2024

Follow-on Offering
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Nov 2024

Follow-on Offering
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Oct 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Transportation & Logistics
Sep 2024

Follow-on Offering
Diversified Industries
Sep 2024

Follow-on Offering
Industrial & Environmental Services
Sep 2024

Initial Public Offering
Business Services
Sep 2024

Follow-on Offering
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Sep 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Sep 2024

Mergers & Acquisition
Capital Goods
Aug 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Aug 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial Technology
Jul 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Jul 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Business Services
Jul 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Jul 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Paper & Forest Products
May 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Jun 2024

Initial Public Offering
Industrial Technology
Jun 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
May 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Paper & Forest Products
May 2024

Block Trade
Diversified Industries
May 2024

Follow-on Offering
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
May 2024

Senior Secured Credit Facilities
Capital Goods
May 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
May 2024

Initial Public Offering
Transportation & Logistics
May 2024

Aggregate Indebtedness
Medtech
Apr 2024

Senior Secured Credit Facilities
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Apr 2024

Follow-on Offering
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Apr 2024

Registered Direct
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Apr 2024

Corporate Brokering
Business Services
Apr 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Specialty Distribution, Packaging
Apr 2024

Chapter 11 Restructuring
Vehicle Electrification
Mar 2024

Senior Secured Credit Facilities
Packaging
Mar 2024

Term Loan B
Industrial & Environmental Services
Mar 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Mar 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Packaging
Mar 2024

Senior Secured Credit Facilities
Industrial & Environmental Services
Mar 2024

Term Loan B
Specialty Distribution, Building Products
Feb 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Mar 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Specialty Distribution, Building Products
Mar 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Paper & Forest Products
Feb 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Feb 2024

Diversified Industries
Jan 2024

Mergers & Acquisition
Transportation & Logistics
Jan 2024

Senior Secured Credit Facilities
Industrial Technology
Dec 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial Technology
Dec 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Dec 2023

Senior Secured Credit Facility
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Dec 2023

Senior Secured Credit Facilities
Packaging
Nov 2023

Senior Secured Notes
Packaging
Nov 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Business Services
Nov 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Vehicle Electrification
Oct 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Oct 2023

Has Completed a Spin-off
Capital Goods
Oct 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial Technology
Oct 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Specialty Distribution
Sep 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Diversified Industries, Paper & Forest Products
Sep 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Aug 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Jun 2023

Follow-on Offering
Industrial & Environmental Services
Jun 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Paper & Forest Products, Diversified Industries
Jun 2023

Follow-on Offering
Diversified Industries
May 2023

Follow-on Offering
Specialty Distribution
May 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Paper & Forest Products
Sep 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Apr 2023

Follow-on Offering
Diversified Industries
Apr 2023

Preferred Stock
Transportation & Logistics
Mar 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Transportation & Logistics
Mar 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Transportation & Logistics
Feb 2023

Follow-on Offering
Specialty Distribution, Building Products
Feb 2023

Senior Notes
Industrial & Environmental Services
Jan 2023

Senior Secured Credit Facilities
Building Products
Dec 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Building Products
Dec 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Transportation & Logistics
Dec 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Diversified Industries
Dec 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Packaging, Paper & Forest Products
Dec 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Maritime Services, Healthcare Services
Dec 2022

Follow-on Offering
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Nov 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial Technology
Nov 2022

Merger & Acquisitions
Transportation & Logistics
Nov 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Transportation & Logistics
Nov 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Nov 2021

Chapter 11 Restructuring
Maritime Services
Mar 2017

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Oct 2019

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Dec 2019

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Aug 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Education Services & Technology
Oct 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial Technology, Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Sep 2022

PIPE
Industrial & Environmental Services
Oct 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Oct 2022

Senior Secured Notes
Industrial & Environmental Services
Oct 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Sep 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Sep 2022

Diversified Industries
Aug 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Aug 2022

Follow-on Offering
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Aug 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Aug 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Business Services
Aug 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Building Products
Jul 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Jun 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Transportation & Logistics
Jun 2022

Senior Secured Credit Facilities
Building Products
Apr 2022

Senior Notes
Building Products
Apr 2022

Mergers & Acquisitionsd
Building Products
Dec 2020

Follow-on Offering
Specialty Distribution, Building Products
Apr 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Mar 2022

Initial Public Offering
Capital Goods
Mar 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial Technology
Feb 2022

SPAC Merger
Capital Goods
Feb 2022

Has Received a Minority Investment
Transportation & Logistics
Jan 2022

Follow-on Offering
Diversified Industries
Jan 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Transportation & Logistics
Dec 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Dec 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Specialty Distribution
Dec 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial Technology
Dec 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Industrial & Environmental Services
Dec 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Transportation & Logistics
Dec 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Diversified Industries
Nov 2021

Follow-on Offering
Diversified Industries
Nov 2021

Convertible Debentures
Diversified Industries
Nov 2021

Follow-on Offering
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Nov 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Specialty Distribution
Nov 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Specialty Distribution
Nov 2021

Follow-on Offering
Diversified Industries
Oct 2021

Senior Secured Notes
Building Products, Specialty Distribution
Oct 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Transportation & Logistics
Oct 2021

Follow-on Offering
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Sep 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Sep 2021

Senior Notes
Industrial & Environmental Services
Sep 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Sep 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Aug 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Specialty Distribution
Aug 2021

Has Merged with
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Aug 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Paper & Forest Products
Jul 2021

Senior Secured Notes
Transportation & Logistics
Jul 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Specialty Distribution
Jul 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Building Products
Jun 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Transportation & Logistics
May 2021

Initial Public Offering
Packaging, Specialty Distribution
Apr 2021

Senior Notes
Building Products
Apr 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Apr 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Apr 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Building Products
Apr 2021

Follow-on Offering
Building Products
Apr 2021

Senior Secured Notes
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Mar 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Mar 2021

Initial Public Offering
Automotive Aftermarket
Mar 2021

Initial Public Offering
Feb 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Sep 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Dec 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Capital Goods
Dec 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Automotive OEMs & Suppliers
Nov 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Business Services
Dec 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Dec 2020

Follow-on Offering
Industrial & Environmental Services
Nov 2020

Senior Notes
Building Products
Nov 2020

Follow-on Offering
Business Services
Nov 2020

Senior Secured Credit Facility
Transportation & Logistics
Nov 2020

Term Loan B
Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
Oct 2020

Restructuring
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Oct 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Jun 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Transportation & Logistics
Jul 2020

Initial Public Offering
Industrial & Environmental Services
Jul 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Building Products
Jul 2020

Initial Public Offering
Automotive OEMs & Suppliers
Jun 2020

Follow-on Offering
Business Services
Jun 2020

Registered Direct
Automotive OEMs & Suppliers
Jun 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Feb 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Electronics & Industrial Technology
Feb 2020

Initial Public Offering
Industrial & Environmental Services
Mar 2020

Preferred Stock
Industrial & Environmental Services
Jan 2020
Currency volume represents full credit to each underwriter. All transaction announcements appear as a matter of record only. Stifel collectively refers to Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated and other affiliated broker-dealer subsidiaries of Stifel Financial Corp.