James Cassel

About James Cassel

James Cassel, Chairman and Co-Founder of Cassel Salpeter & Co, is an investment banker who uses his unique experience as a dealmaker and attorney to guide clients and help them achieve their goals.Focused on representing middle-market companies, Jim has successfully negotiated, structured, and executed a broad spectrum of transactions including mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, corporate and transactional financings, and public offerings for clients nationwide and worldwide. Having developed a keen understanding of the issues faced and alternatives available for distressed companies, he has particular experience in developing financial restructuring plans, negotiating with creditors, and guiding debtors through bankruptcy proceedings.Nationally recognized for his investment banking expertise, Jim frequently lectures on timely issues related to middle-market investment banking.Before founding Cassel Salpeter & Co, Jim was co-founder and chairman of Capitalink, an investment banking firm that was acquired by Ladenburg Thalmann & Co, a New York Stock Exchange member firm where Jim continued and served as vice chairman, senior managing director, and head of investment banking. He also was chairman of a significant company that owned hospitals.Jim is a former board member and past president of the South Florida Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth. He previously served on the board of Equity One (NYSE:EQY) and is an advisory board member of the University of Miami’s “The Launch Pad” business incubator program for entrepreneurs. He has served on the executive committee of Broad and Cassel, one of Florida’s largest law firms, and has been a member of the American Association of Arbitrators, National Investment Banking Association and the NASD Board of Arbitrators. He also writes a regular column for The Miami Herald about emerging trends and strategies and tactics for middle-market business owners.

Experience

1. Cassel Salpeter And Co

   Present

Education

• University of Miami School of Law

  'JD, Law

  1976 — 1979

• Ranson Everglades School

  HS

  1973

• American University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Political Science and Government and Economics

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Corporate Finance
• Capital Raising
• Bankruptcy
• Mergers
• Business Valuation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Investor Relations
• Financial Services
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance
• Alternative Investments
• Private Equity
• Pipes
• Joint Ventures
• Due Diligence
• Hedge Funds
• Valuation
• Funding
• Venture Financing
• Fairness Opinions
• Venture Capital
• Securities
• Financial Modeling
• Corporate Law
• Equities
• Growth Capital
• Acquisitions
• Capital Markets
• Mezzanine
• Divestitures
• Corporate Development
• Investments
• M&a Experience
• Ipo
• Executive Management
• Private Placements
• Restructuring
• Investment Banking
• Financial Advisory