Robert W. Baird & Co. has announced that Jim Conniff has joined the firm’s Investment Banking Industrial team as a Managing Director, focusing on coverage of large, diversified Industrial companies. He will be based in the firm’s Chicago office.
Mr. Conniff returns to Baird from Goldman Sachs where he was a senior member of Goldman Sach’s Industrial Banking team. Prior to his nearly seven years at Goldman Sachs, he was a Director in Baird’s Industrial Investment Banking team. Mr. Conniff has a BA degree from the University of Illinois.
“We are very pleased that Jim has decided to return to Baird to continue his career,” said Paul Rogalski, Head of Baird’s Consumer and Industrial Investment Banking teams. “He has extensive experience with and knowledge of the Industrial space – particularly with large, diversified Midwestern companies. We are excited for and confident of the contributions he will make to the team as he works alongside our existing Industrial bankers.”
The addition of Mr. Conniff follows other recent addition by Baird to its investment banking team including Chris Harned in Milwaukee, Paul Bail in London, Jason Abt and Owen Hart in San Francisco, David Schechner in Boston, and Rob Rosenfeld in Chicago. Baird’s Investment Banking group posted record revenues in 2011, 42% higher than the firm’s previous record set in 2007.
Baird is an employee-owned, international wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Approximately 200 investment banking professionals in the U.S., Europe and Asia provide corporations, private equity and venture capital firms with in- depth market knowledge and extensive experience in merger and acquisition and equity financing transactions. Since 2007, Baird has advised on more than 230 M&A transactions representing $43 billion in transaction value and has served as lead or co-manager on 250 equity offerings raising more than $76 billion (www. rwbaird.com).
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