Hovde Financial, our consistently acclaimed investment banking division, provides independent, client-focused, and value-added advice to institutions in the financial services sector. Our team of experienced investment bankers offers a full range of advisory and corporate finance services with a focus exclusively on banking institutions, broker/dealers, specialty finance, mortgage banking, asset management, and insurance companies.

Hovde Investment Banking provides continual, senior-level attention to each of our clients as well as some of the most customized and creative solutions in our industry. In the last two decades, Hovde has advised on over 275 merger and acquisition transactions with an aggregate deal value of over $20 billion and over $7.5 billion in branch transactions.

Hovde’s core Investment Banking services include:

• General financial and strategic advice
• Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
• Valuations and fairness opinions
• Corporate restructurings
• Line of business acquisitions
• Strategic partnerships and joint ventures
• Investor relations strategies