Human Capital Investment Banking
Our dedicated professionals provide bold, creative transaction advice to leading HR technology and service businesses, to support them in achieving their strategic and financial objectives.
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We take a holistic, collaborative approach to serving clients in the Human Capital space. We bring to bear our firm’s depth of knowledge and deal experience in technology, services, and healthcare along with an unmatched level of process expertise to consistently generate outstanding outcomes for clients.
Our Human Capital banking team has completed more than 70 transactions generating over $35 billion in total transaction value.
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