Christopher Haymons Joins St. Charles Capital

Christopher Haymons has joined St. Charles Capital as a managing director in the Denver-based advisory firm’s Diversified Industries group. He previously was a senior managing director with Headwaters MB.

PRESS RELEASE

St. Charles Capital is pleased to announce that Mr. Christopher Haymons has joined our firm as Managing Director in the Diversified Industries practice.

Mr. Haymons brings seventeen years of mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transaction experience to St. Charles Capital in its target middle market segment.  Prior to joining St. Charles Capital, Mr. Haymons was Senior Managing Director of Headwaters MB, which he joined at its inception in 2001.  While at Headwaters, Mr. Haymons was Head of Investment Banking and led the firm’s Industrials group.  During his tenure at Headwaters, he led transactions in the energy and utility services, engineering and construction, building products, distribution, maintenance and repair services and plastics manufacturing sectors.  Prior to Headwaters MB, was with Green Manning & Bunch and Dain Bosworth, where he executed multiple corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions spanning multiple industries including technology, media and communications, chemicals and refining, healthcare, building products, distribution services, business services and consumer products.

“We’re very excited to welcome Chris and his clients to St. Charles Capital,” said Michael Franson, President and co-founder of St. Charles Capital.  “Chris adds significant reach and depth to our team.  He’s a very experienced, veteran investment banker who has achieved a great deal of success in the middle market,” Franson added.  Haymon’s stated “I’m thrilled to join such a high-caliber team at St. Charles Capital.  This is a firm with tremendous energy and momentum, having completed 48 investment banking transactions in 42 months, including seven in the fourth quarter of 2008, one of the most challenging markets on record.  It’s a great fit for me and my clients.”  Haymons will continue to focus on industrial services and manufacturing companies at St. Charles.

St. Charles Capital, based in Denver, CO, provides expert merger & acquisition advisory, private capital raising, and financial advisory services to both private and public companies nationwide, through four industry focus groups: Diversified Industries, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Technology.  Collectively, the firm’s inve stment bankers have completed more than 200 transactions valued in excess of $5.5 billion in total consideration, and have raised nearly $1.0 billion in private capital.