Mr. Fein has served as a trusted advisor to financial institutions and financial sponsors for over 15 years, involved in over 175 transactions for public and private companies representing more than $26 billion in transaction value. He has an extensive strategic advisory background in buy-side and sell-side M&A, restructuring, and cross-border transactions.
Prior to Wildridge Partners, Mr. Fein served as Managing Director at EF Hutton LLC’s Los Angeles office, where he led the company’s West Coast investment banking coverage.
Mr. Fein was a Director at JMP Securities (now Citizens Bank) in its Financial Services and Real Estate Investment Banking Group, based in the firm’s New York office, where he worked for 10 years. He started his career in the Emerging Markets Fixed Income Group at TCW in Los Angeles.
Select advisory transactions include:
- MetaMap, a portfolio company of Craft Ventures, Tribe Capital and Spero Ventures, on its sale to Incode, a portfolio company of General Atlantic and SoftBank
- SenSpa Presidio on its sale to a private investor
- Celaya Tequila on its growth capital financing from Pronghorn, a Diageo-backed investment fund
- Lyneer Staffing on its $95 million merger with SeqLL and subsequent Nasdaq listing
- Subsea Environmental on its $31 million growth financing from OIC (Orion Infrastructure)*
- MVC Capital on its $178 million sale to Barings*
- Troika Media on its $125 million acquisition of Converge Marketing*
- Two Harbors on its $1.2 billion acquisition of CYS Investments*
- U.S. Gas & Electric on its $173 million sale to Crius Energy*
- Instacredit on its $100 million sale to Crédito Real*
- Edgenet, a portfolio company of Liberty Partners, on its sale to Tenth Street Capital*
* Transaction executed while at a prior firm
Mr. Fein holds a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College, where he was a Robert Day Scholar.