Griffin Financial Group, LLC

Griffin Financial Group is a Pennsylvania-based investment bank specializing in assisting financial institutions in understanding their strategic and financial alternatives, raising capital, facilitating and structuring M&A transactions and securitizing and selling assets, including troubled assets. Griffin also assists financial institutions in public offerings, institutional placements, sales, syndication and other capital markets activities. Griffin also offers assistance with capital planning, strategic planning, non-depository M&A, branch purchases and sales, and other strategic matters. Through our unique platform, we also have the ability to assist our clients in attracting non-traditional sources of capital, including private equity funds, hedge funds and insurance companies, and in attracting strategic partners. Griffin has 40 investment bankers and is part of a professional services platform which consists of over 200 multidisciplinary professionals with occupational and educational diversity and broad and deep banking sector experience. Our staff includes many former senior executive officers of both large and small depository institutions, specialty lenders and others in the sector with hands-on operating and transactional experience. Our in-house, industry-specific financial accounting and tax capabilities are unique among investment banks specializing in the financial institutions sector. This platform gives us the ability to understand our financial institution clients' needs from their perspective and to develop innovative structures to address their challenges in a difficult regulatory and economic environment. Griffin has two Pennsylvania office locations - Valley Forge and Reading - as well as offices in New York City, Dallas/Fort Worth, TX and Norfolk, VA.