With Experience Across the Technology
Spectrum and Other High-Growth Companies, Jasen Has Advised on
Approximately 100 Transactions Representing Over
$7 Billion in Value
Investor Relationship Network Spans
Early-Stage Venture Capitalists, Growth-Focused Private Equity,
Later-Stage Buyout Firms and Cross-Over Hedge Funds
NEW
YORK, Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Oppenheimer
& Co. Inc. (Oppenheimer) — a leading investment bank, wealth
manager and a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings (NYSE: OPY) —
announced today that Richard Jasen
joined the firm as Head of Technology & Consumer Private
Capital. He will be based out of Oppenheimer's San Francisco office and report to
Robin Graham, Managing Director,
Head of Technology Investment Banking.
"We are thrilled to welcome Rich to Technology Investment
Banking at Oppenheimer," said Robin
Graham. "His robust skill set and extensive professional
relationships will prove highly valuable as we accelerate the
buildout of our private capital services. Dynamic companies in the
technology and consumer sectors have the potential to impact
businesses and households across the globe. This makes such
companies exceptionally well positioned to benefit from access to
institutional private investment."
Jasen – whose investor relationship network spans early-stage
venture capitalists, growth-focused private equity, later-stage
buyout firms and cross-over hedge funds – brings more than 25
years of experience to the firm.
In assisting growth companies in raising private equity and debt
capital, he has worked across the technology spectrum with
high-growth companies, specializing in founder-run bootstrapped
businesses, secondary liquidity transactions and dual-track
engagements. He has also raised growth capital for venture-backed
companies and pre-IPO rounds.
Jasen joins Oppenheimer after 17 years at GCA (now part of
Houlihan Lokey), where he was
Managing Director, Head of the Private Capital Group, and a U.S.
Management Committee Member. Prior to GCA, he served as Head of
West Coast Private Capital at SoundView Technology Group.
He has also worked in corporate finance at Lehman Brothers and
served as a Silicon Valley corporate attorney at Cooley, where he
specialized in working with startups and venture capitalists. Most
recently, he was at Explorer Acquisitions, a serial SPAC sponsor
that raised $2.5 billion across seven
SPACs in partnership with former public company technology CEOs and
has successfully completed two de-SPACs.
Over his career, Jasen has advised on approximately 100
transactions representing more than $7
billion in total value. These include advising Grapeshot and
TOA Technologies on their respective acquisitions by Oracle, the
likes of Zynga, Luminar and Yext on their growth financings before
going public, as well as Legendary Pictures on its debt and equity
initial capitalization. Jasen also has served as a board member and
advisory board member for multiple prior clients.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Business and Economics from
UCLA. He also has a JD with honors from
the University of Chicago Law
School.
"I am excited to join Oppenheimer and lead the Technology &
Consumer Private Capital practice," Jasen said. "In today's market,
where access to capital is no longer a commodity, Oppenheimer is an
ideal platform to leverage my experience advising on capital
raising and M&A transactions for the technology and consumer
sectors . The firm has a long history of directing resources that
fuel greater innovation across multiple sectors, which, in turn,
has enhanced lives and made communities stronger. I look forward to
not only being a part of that impressive legacy but building upon
it going forward."
"Rich's track record of advising high-growth companies, along
with his deep sector-level knowledge, make him an ideal candidate
to lead this effort," said Robert
Lowenthal, President of Oppenheimer and Head of
Investment Banking. "His appointment reflects our commitment to
continually enhancing our capabilities to better serve
Oppenheimer's clients, particularly during this time of significant
innovation and need for access to private capital."
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
(Oppenheimer), a principal subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc.
(OPY on the New York Stock Exchange), and its affiliates provide a
full range of wealth management, securities brokerage and
investment banking services to high net-worth individuals,
families, corporate executives, local governments, businesses and
institutions.
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