Stephen Gaines

Managing Partner

Stephen Gaines Mr. Gaines is the Managing Partner of HighBank Capital Partners LLC. Mr. Gaines possesses over 20 years of executive leadership and transactional experience.

Prior to founding HighBank, Mr. Gaines spent 9 years as Head of KPMG Corporate Finance LLC, a leading middle market investment bank. Mr. Gaines led the firm through a period of compounded annual growth in excess of 40%, and transitioned the business from losing millions of dollars annually to recording record profits. During his tenure, he significantly diversified and grew the firm’s service offerings through the recruitment and retention of a senior executive team and through strategic acquisitions and geographic expansion. Mr. Gaines also led the design and implementation of an equity plan for senior management and governance procedures for compensation and investment planning. Finally, Mr. Gaines also implemented risk management policies and procedures and internal controls that were subject to numerous (often annual) audits by both internal and external examiners.

Mr. Gaines began his career in the secured lending division of a multi-billion dollar regional bank where he underwrote and managed numerous leveraged transactions including management buyouts, leveraged lease transactions, debtor-in-possession financings, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and debt restructurings.

Mr. Gaines is a nationally-known financial expert and resource to global and national media outlets including BBC World News, CNBC’s Squawk Box, Fox Business News, Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Buyouts, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Financial Week where he has provided commentary on business climate and economic conditions, merger and acquisition activity and outlook, the capital markets, and management best practices.

Mr. Gaines earned a M.B.A. from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, College Park and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Dickinson College.

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Contact Steve at (443) 478 1970 or sgaines@highbank.com.

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