Clay Bryan
Managing Director, Sponsor Coverage
FocalPoint Partners, LLC
Clay Bryan is a managing director and leads the Financial Sponsor Group at FocalPoint, a B. Riley Financial Company. FocalPoint is a middle market investment bank headquartered in Los Angeles, with branch offices in Chicago, Dallas, New York, and Shanghai. The firm has a long history of delivering founder-owned businesses to the private equity market with EBITDA consistently ranging from $10-75 million.
Bryan has approximately 22 years of investment banking experience in private equity coverage, debt and equity capital markets, M&A, special situations, and both in- and out-of-court restructurings, providing solutions to investors ranging in size from middle market to large cap public company transactions. FocalPoint has significantly expanded its private equity transaction advisory practice, both in terms of M&A and capital markets transactions. The firm closed more than 39 deals in 2021 with an aggregate transaction value of $5.6 billion and is more than 60 professionals strong today.
