Hovde Group is a leading U.S. financial advisory group that provides a full-service suite of investment banking, capital markets, and financial advisory services focused exclusively on the banking and thrift industry. As a leading specialist in the banking sector for over 25 years, Hovde Group consistently ranks among the top firms in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions for U.S.-based bank and thrift institutions.

Ranieri Partners LLC is led by real estate industry and Wall Street veteran Lewis S. Ranieri. Founded in 2007, our organization has established a synergistic combination of investment strategies designed to capitalize on pricing anomalies and market dislocations across distressed sectors, as well as traditional asset classes. Our objective is to provide our clients with an integrated investment platform, offering innovative and complementary solutions across the real estate, fixed income, consumer finance, corporate finance and private equity sectors.

Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P. is a full-service investment banking firm and broker-dealer focused on the financial services sector. Its clients include a wide variety of financial firms nationwide, and increasingly, around the globe. The firm provides the full suite of investment banking services, including merger and acquisition advisory, capital markets, fixed income and equity trading and sales, equity research, balance sheet management, mortgage finance and consulting services to financial institutions and their investors.