Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking, D.A. Davidson & Co.

THE LATEST: D.A. Davidson & Co. was awarded USA Investment Bank of the Year, Middle Markets 2018 by the Global M&A Network. McKinney was instrumental in the origination and development of the D.A. Davidson MCF International brand, which was established last year. He advised on more than $1 billion in transactions in 2018 for L.A.-based financial institutions, including Pasadena-based Community Bank’s sale to CVB Financial Corp.

BACKGROUND: McKinney leads more than 80 professionals covering five industry verticals — consumer, diversified industrials, financial institutions, real estate and technology — in nine D.A. Davidson & Co. offices throughout the United States. Since joining D.A. Davidson in 2007, he has advised both public and private companies on more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, and capital raises.

WORTH NOTING: McKinney holds an executive role within D.A. Davidson MCF International, a strategic transatlantic partnership between D.A. Davidson and Europe-based MCF Corporate Finance.

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