Brown Gibbons Lang (BGL) has added Meghan Welch as a managing director to its Aerospace, Defense & Government Services (ADGS) investment banking team.
Ms. Welch has more than 15 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, restructuring, and capital-raising advisory, with a singular focus on the aerospace and defense sector. She has advised Fortune 500 companies, small-cap businesses, and private equity owners, as well as working with aerospace and defense contractors and emerging technology providers.
Before joining BGL, and beginning in 2023, Ms. Welch was a managing director at KPMG Corporate Finance, where she led the firm’s investment banking activities in the ADGS sector. From 2022 to 2023, she co-led the ADGS practice at AGC Partners. Earlier in her career she was with Houlihan Lokey from 2016 to 2022, and Harris Williams from 2014 to 2016. Ms. Welch has her undergraduate degree in finance and marketing from Boston University.
“Meghan has a proven track record executing transactions in the aerospace and defense sector,” said Andrew Petryk, the head of BGL’s industrials investment banking vertical. “Her addition to the industrials investment banking team will enable us to further enhance our relationships and expertise within the sector and to continue the momentum we have across our broader Industrials Group.”
“BGL has demonstrated growth over the past several years,” said Ms. Welch. “I look forward to helping the firm expand its ADGS platform and leveraging my experience on behalf of BGL’s clients in the sector.”
“We are excited to add someone of Meghan’s caliber to the team,” added Bill Farmer, the leader of BGL’s ADGS investment banking practice. “She has developed a network of industry relationships that stretches across strategic companies as well as financial sponsors.”
BGL is a mid-market investment bank that specializes in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, capital markets, financial restructurings, valuations, and fairness opinions.
Over the past 18 months, BGL has been actively expanding its coverage areas and senior banker headcount. In 2024, the firm expanded its capabilities in its services, infrastructure, technology, and healthcare and life sciences verticals, along with adding to its financial sponsor coverage team. In 2023, BGL expanded its capabilities in professional services; technology; digital infrastructure; aerospace, defense and government services; transportation and logistics; and capital markets. Overall, since 2022, BGL has grown its managing director ranks by over 90% and has added more than a dozen new sectors to its coverage.
BGL was founded in 1989 and has investment banking offices in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and New York City.
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