Stifel Europe
Expanding Stifel Investment Banking Across European Borders
We firmly believe that clients value authentic advice and enduring relationships. Our goal is to offer these across a comprehensive range of industry coverage groups.
Stifel is a leading full-service investment bank for European growth companies and their investors. Clients benefit from our unwavering commitment to their long-term success, leveraging our unmatched insights into strategically important sectors. Our strong relationships with investors, ranging from private equity and venture capital to institutional investors across Stifel’s global footprint, including the U.S., Europe, Canada, Israel, Latin America, and Asia, further enhance our clients’ ability to achieve their objectives.
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Our Sector Expertise
The consumer sector is experiencing a significant transformation across various segments, including food, electronics, entertainment, and travel. This shift is driven by the engagement of digital natives with brands, products, and the environment. The European Consumer Investment Banking team offers a comprehensive suite of advisory and capital markets services to clients across all major sector sub-verticals, such as active lifestyle, apparel & footwear, beauty, DTC & E-commerce, food & beverage, home, and specialty retail.
Our team boasts a successful track record in equity capital-raisings, IPOs, sell-downs, and both sell-side and buy-side M&A transactions, including numerous cross-border assignments. Our success is built on deep global industry knowledge, unrivaled market access, and insightful perspectives, providing clients with a unique offering that delivers the most relevant and commercially focused advice. Given the global nature of the Consumer & Retail sector, we collaborate closely with Stifel’s U.S. and other international offices to ensure our clients' needs are met with a global perspective .
Stifel’s European Business Services team advises on a diverse range of transactions including private buy-side and sell-side M&A, public takeovers and defence, strategic advisory and investor positioning assignments, in addition to IPO's, rights issues, equity private placements, and investment and sub-investment grade financings.
We work closely with public and private clients across Continental Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia on transactions with a particular focus on Testing, Inspection, Certification & Compliance; Engineering & Infrastructure Services; Environmental/ESG Services; Speciality Rental; Speciality Consulting; Distribution; Industrial & Technical Services; Facility Services; B2C; BPO; and Human Capital Services.
Stifel's London-based Capital Solutions Group (CSG) offers borrowers a full range of public and private capital markets solutions designed to span the full corporate lifecycle including complex and distressed situations. We work closely with clients across a wide range of industries and jurisdictions to communicate their credit stories to a targeted investor audience and create tailored debt financing structures. CSG leverages Stifel’s global coverage of more than 8,000 accounts, from large institutions to private wealth, to find the right pockets of capital. CSG is also able to advise on restructuring and liability management processes with a focus on early identification of credit related issues and a proactive approach in resolving any commercial, financial, or structural issues.
The European Energy & Natural Resources Investment Banking team offers capital markets and advisory services to clients in the oil & gas, mining, and clean energy sectors. As the market leader in London for oil & gas equity capital-raisings, IPOs, and sell-downs, our team's success is built on deep industry and regulatory knowledge, coupled with unrivaled market access and insight.
We provide clients with a unique offering that delivers the most relevant and commercially focused advice. Our full-service capabilities include equity capital markets, M&A advisory, regulatory advisory (Nomad, Sponsor, Takeover Code), debt capital markets, and acquisition and divestment services for oil & gas operators.
The UK Financial Institutions & Fintech Investment Banking Team, operating under KBW, provides capital markets and advisory services to clients across the financial services industry. We focus on the insurance, banking, specialty finance, asset management, and financial technology subsectors. As a market leader in Europe for M&A advisory, capital-raisings (equity and debt), and IPOs, our team's success is built on deep industry and regulatory knowledge, coupled with unrivaled market access and insight.
By combining these elements into a single team, we offer clients a unique service capable of delivering the most relevant and commercially focused advice.
Stifel’s European Healthcare team provides capital markets and advisory services on a pan-European and global basis across the full spectrum of healthcare companies, including Biotech, MedTech, diagnostics, animal health, OTC and specialty pharma, as well as outsourced pharma services and healthcare services. Our full-service product offering includes M&A (both company and asset-based), equity capital-raising (including IPOs and follow-on offerings), corporate broking services for listed companies, and capital solutions.
We have expertise in helping European biotechnology companies access the U.S. capital markets and maintain a leading global franchise in branded healthcare products such as animal health and OTC/consumer health. Our team's success is built on deep industry and scientific knowledge, exceptional access to investors, and global connectivity in our core segments. This enables us to offer a comprehensive and integrated approach to addressing clients’ needs effectively.
Additionally, we operate in close coordination with our U.S. banking partners, providing a highly differentiated proposition for UK and European companies raising capital in the U.S.
Stifel Europe’s Real Estate Investment Funds Group provides specialist financing and advisory services. We pride ourselves on offering independent and non-conflicted advice to our corporate clients, who benefit from our comprehensive range of investment banking services. Our success is underpinned by unrivaled sector expertise and insights.
Our market-leading Real Estate franchise advises clients across various sub-sectors, including healthcare, student accommodation, long-income, office, industrial, prime Central London, strategic land, and residential. As a specialist and leading corporate finance adviser, we serve more than 20 retained investment funds clients with an average market cap of over £500 million, devising and implementing long-term equity issuance growth strategies and secondary market promotional activities.
Stifel’s Infrastructure Investment Banking team specializes in M&A, debt, and strategic advisory services for infrastructure and private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and insurance companies across the infrastructure sector. We offer clients tailored and innovative capital solutions, leveraging deep expertise across various infrastructure sectors, including renewable and conventional power (utility-scale and distribution level), energy transition, regulated utilities, transportation, logistics, telecoms, waste, recycling, district heating, and storage.
Stifel’s Legal Services Group focuses exclusively on law firms, litigation finance, and other legal services assets. Our team has advised on numerous transactions across the capital structure (debt and equity, private and public), spanning the investment banking product set (public equity, private equity, M&A, structured debt), and across the globe (U.S., UK, and 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 onto the Main List of the London Stock Exchange, and successfully executed structured private credit transactions for litigation finance platforms, giving us an unrivaled understanding of private cost of capital.
Offering a world-class combination of deep sector knowledge, strong industry relationships, and broad product expertise, our team provides clients with strategic advisory and capital-raising services designed to support growth companies and their investors during all stages of their development.
With more than 100 professionals working as an integrated team across North America and Europe, Stifel is one of the leading providers of capital-raising services to technology companies and technology-focused institutional investors.
Stifel is a leading UK corporate broker with retained relationships across multiple sectors with companies listed on the Main Market and AIM. We offer a range of services to our corporate clients, providing them with support in the equity capital markets, as well as insightful advice on M&A, defence and debt capital markets.
Stifel is increasingly broadening its sector footprint, with significant momentum and recent clients wins in the Healthcare, Technology and Financials sectors complementing ongoing mid-market leadership in Real Estate, Energy and Resources, and Investment Funds.
Notable Transactions

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Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
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NextGen Consumer
Jun 2022

Healthcare
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Software & Fintech
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Software & Fintech
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Software & Fintech
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NextGen Consumer
Sep 2022

Business & Tech-enabled Services
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Healthcare
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Healthcare
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Software & Fintech
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Business & Tech-enabled Services
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Healthcare
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Software & Fintech
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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Healthcare
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Business & Tech-enabled Services
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Business & Tech-enabled Services
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Software & Fintech
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Healthcare
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Healthcare
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Healthcare
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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Healthcare
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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Software & Fintech
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Healthcare
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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Business & Tech-enabled Services
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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NextGen Consumer
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Software & Fintech
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Healthcare
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Healthcare
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Business & Tech-enabled Services
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Software & Fintech
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Software & Fintech
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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Business & Tech-enabled Services
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Business & Tech-enabled Services
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Healthcare
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Healthcare
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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Healthcare
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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Software & Fintech
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NextGen Consumer
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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Business & Tech-enabled Services
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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Healthcare
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Software & Fintech
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Software & Fintech
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Software & Fintech
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Healthcare
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Software & Fintech
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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Business & Tech-enabled Services
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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Climate & Industrial Tech
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Software & Fintech
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Business & Tech-enabled Services
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Software & Fintech
Feb 2025

Climate & Industrial Tech
Feb 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions
Engineering & Construction, and Infrastructure
Mar 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions
Healthcare
Feb 2025

Follow-on Offering
Energy & Natural Resources
Feb 2025

Senior Secured Credit Facilities
Packaging, Diversified Industries
Dec 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer
Sep 2024

Reverse Takeover & Equity Placing
Energy & Natural Resources
Sep 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Technology
Oct 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Healthcare
Jan 2024

Has Received an Investment from Frog Hawley
Consumer
Jul 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Medtech, Healthcare
Jul 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Investment Funds & Real Estate
Jul 2024

Follow-on Offering
Healthcare
May 2024

Equity Placing
Healthcare
May 2024

Energy & Natural Resources
Jan 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Investment Funds & Real Estate
Nov 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Healthcare, Biopharma
Aug 2024

Has Executed a Majority Recapitalization with
Technology
Oct 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Technology
Aug 2024

Energy & Natural Resources
Mar 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Technology
Jul 2024

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Consumer
Aug 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Healthcare
Nov 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Healthcare Services
Oct 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Healthcare
Jul 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer
Jul 2024

Secured Credit Facility
Healthcare
Jun 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Paper & Forest Products
May 2024

Equity Placing
Industrial Technology
Jun 2024

Advisory
Healthcare
Jun 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Paper & Forest Products
May 2024

Block Trade
Diversified Industries
May 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Packaging
Mar 2024

Follow-on Offering
Healthcare
Mar 2024

Follow-on Offering
Healthcare
Mar 2024

Follow-on Offering
Energy & Natural Resources
Feb 2024

Diversified Industries
Jan 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions
Energy & Natural Resources
Dec 2023

Convertible Loan Royalty
Energy & Natural Resources
Nov 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer, Technology
Nov 2023

Private Placement Joint Venture
Real Estate
Oct 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Healthcare
Sep 2023

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

Private Debt
Software
Sep 2023

Equity Placing
Healthcare
Jul 2023

Follow-on Offering
Energy & Natural Resources
Jun 2023

Equity Placing
Technology
May 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Consumer
Apr 2023

Follow-on Offering
Diversified Industries
Apr 2023

Follow-on Offering
Feb 2023

PIPE
Healthcare
Feb 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Technology
Jan 2023

Mergers & Acquisitions
Packaging, Paper & Forest Products
Dec 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Healthcare
Dec 2022

Placing and Subscription
Internet & Digital Media
Oct 2022

Convertible Bond & Follow-on Offering
Healthcare Services
Oct 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Software
Sep 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Software
Sep 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Software
Oct 2022

Follow-on Offering
Technology
Sep 2022

Follow-on Offering
Energy & Natural Resources
Sep 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Software
Aug 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Software
Sep 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Healthcare Services
Aug 2022

Tender Offer
Gaming & Leisure
Jun 2022

Initial Public Offering
Energy & Natural Resources
Jul 2022

Follow-on Offering
Biopharma
May 2022

Follow-on Offering
Real Estate
Apr 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Software
Dec 2020

Follow-on Offering
Technology
Sep 2021

Follow-on Offering
Healthcare
Apr 2022

Convertible Bond and Equity Placing
Medtech
Mar 2022

Transfer of Listing to AIM
Consumer
Feb 2022

Follow-on Offering
Diversified Industries
Jan 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions
Technology
Nov 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Technology
Oct 2021

Follow-on Offering
Diversified Industries
Oct 2021

Follow-on Offering
Real Estate
Oct 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Internet & Digital Media
Sep 2021

Follow-on Offering
Real Estate
Sep 2021

Initial Public Offering (U.S. Nasdaq)
Medtech
Jul 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Biopharma
Aug 2021

Initial Public Offering
HealthTech
Jul 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Software
Aug 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Biopharma
Jul 2021

Senior Sustainable Notes
Real Estate
Jun 2021

Initial Public Offfering
Internet & Digital Media
Jun 2021

Follow-on Offering
May 2021

Mergers & Acquisitions
Retail
Apr 2021

Follow-on Offering
Real Estate
Mar 2021

Follow-on Offering
Mar 2021

Block Trade
Mar 2021

Follow-on Offering
Real Estate
Mar 2021

Follow-on Offering
Software
Oct 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Sep 2020

Follow-on Offering
Biopharma
Dec 2020

Block Trade
Dec 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Software
Dec 2020

Mergers & Acquisitions
Software
Dec 2020

Follow-on Offering
Real Estate
Oct 2020

Follow-on Offering
Business Services
Nov 2020
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