Stifel Europe

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.

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.

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 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.

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 .

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.

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 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 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.

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.