Baird Global Investment Banking Adds Scott J.R. Smith
Charlotte, May 1, 2023 – Baird, an employee-owned, international financial services firm, announced today that Scott J.R. Smith has joined the firm’s Global Investment Banking business as Managing Director in its Global Financial Sponsors Group. Based in Charlotte, Smith will complement and expand Baird’s existing support for financial sponsors.
With over 25 years of investment banking experience, Smith joins Baird from Goldman Sachs where he was a Managing Director in the firm’s Cross Markets and Financial and Strategic Investors Group, focusing specifically on middle market private equity coverage. He began his career as an M&A banker at Bowles, Hollowell, Conner & Co. in Charlotte, NC where he executed sellside M&A processes across numerous industry sectors and was promoted from Associate to Managing Director. Smith transitioned to financial sponsor coverage when he opened the Charlotte office for Lazard in 2008. He received an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and received a bachelor’s degree from Williams College.
“We are thrilled to welcome Scott to our global financial sponsor practice,” said Les Cheek, Head of Baird’s Global Financial Sponsors Group. “The financial sponsor community is growing in scale and complexity. With his many years of investment banking experience – most of them focused on supporting middle market private equity – Scott will be a great addition to our tenured team, allowing Baird to continue providing a differentiated level of service to funds.”
“I am very excited to be joining Baird’s Global Financial Sponsors Group,” said Smith. “I look forward to further enhancing the advice we provide to private equity firms and continuing to grow our global reach as we strive to deliver the best possible outcomes for our clients.”
About Baird Global Investment Banking
Baird is a leading global investment bank serving the M&A, equity capital markets, capital advisory and restructuring needs of its clients throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Since 2018, Baird has completed nearly 800 advisory transactions, representing $335 billion in transaction value, and more than 400 financings, raising $181 billion.
About Baird
Putting clients first since 1919, Baird is an employee-owned, international wealth management, asset management, investment banking/capital markets, and private equity firm with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Baird has more than 5,000 associates serving the needs of individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients and approximately $376 billion in client assets as of December 31, 2022. Committed to being a great workplace, Baird ranked No. 23 on the 2023 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list – its 20th consecutive year on the list. Baird is the marketing name of Baird Financial Group. Baird’s principal operating subsidiaries are Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated and Baird Trust Company in the United States and Robert W. Baird Group Ltd. in Europe. Baird also has an operating subsidiary in Asia supporting Baird’s investment banking and private equity operations. For more information, please visit Baird’s website at www.rwbaird.com.
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