Richmond investment bank adds health-care practice

Published April 11, 2014 by Robert Powell, III

Richmond-based Matrix Capital Markets Group Inc., a middle-market investment bank, is establishing a health-care practice to provide merger & acquisitions and capital-raising services.

Director David Keys will lead the practice. Keys, who joined the company last year, has nearly a decade of M&A experience in the health-care industry.

Before joining Matrix, Keys was a partner with Creswell Partners, a holding company that acquired and operated labs.

Keys also was vice president of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Group at Richmond-based Harris Williams & Co., where he worked with health-care service and medical device companies across a number of sectors.

Established in 1988, Matrix Capital Markets has offices in Baltimore and Chicago.

The firm provides merger & acquisition and financial advisory services for privately-held and private-equity owned companies, including sales and divestitures, recapitalizations,  management buyouts, and debt and equity placements.