Chad Bounds Joins Baird’s GP Solutions Group
Boston, May 23, 2023 – Baird, an employee-owned, international financial services firm, announced today that Chad Bounds has joined the firm’s Global Investment Banking business as Director in its Global General Partnership (GP) Solutions Group. Bounds will work closely with Jeremy Duksin and Alex Mejia, Co-Heads of the GP Solutions Group and draw on his extensive secondary buyside experience and relationships to further strengthen Baird’s GP Solutions effort.
Baird’s GP Solutions Group advises GPs on accessing the secondary market and other flexible sources of capital to optimize their assets and portfolios. Baird is delivering the full suite of GP secondary market solutions in a highly integrated way with its financial sponsor coverage and industry team expertise.
Bounds joins Baird following five years at HarbourVest Partners where he was a Vice President in the firm’s Secondaries Group, specializing in single and multi-asset continuation fund and related GP-initiated transactions. While at HarbourVest, Bounds evaluated hundreds of GP Solutions investment opportunities and invested nearly $4 billion of equity over ten secondary transactions. Before HarbourVest Partners, Bounds began his career at Raymond James as a member of the firm’s Technology & Services investment banking group. He received a master’s in finance from Vanderbilt University and received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi.
“We are thrilled to welcome Chad to our Global GP Solutions team,” said Alex Mejia. “His buyside secondary market expertise, transaction experience and relationships give him a unique perspective that will strengthen our platform and allow us to provide top tier GP advisory solutions to our PE clients.”
“Baird is incredibly pleased to have gained such a skilled team member as part of our Global GP Solutions effort,” said Jeremy Duksin. “His experience and strong commitment to client service will complement our existing coverage and further our efforts in offering trusted, expert advice to our private equity clients.”
“I am excited to join Baird to help expand the GP Solutions Group,” said Bounds. “The opportunity to work closely with both Jeremy and Alex was very compelling given their deep experience. As a premier global investment banking platform, I believe Baird is well-positioned to expand its presence in the GP-led secondaries market. I look forward to leveraging my experience on the investing side of the secondaries market to help complement the team’s existing advisory expertise and deliver a holistic market perspective to Baird’s GP 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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