Capital Raising Team

Gleacher & Company maintains a diverse set of senior executives with significant experience across a variety of industries in the area of capital markets origination. This deep transactional knowledge ensures that our clients receive advice grounded in consistency, objectivity and seasoned judgment.

Lex Malas
Managing Director, Head of Capital Markets Origination

Mr. Malas joined Gleacher & Company in 2008 as Head of Debt Capital Markets Origination. Prior to joining Broadpoint, Mr. Malas was at Deutsche Bank, where he managed leveraged financings in the energy, power, healthcare, paper and packaging sectors. Mr. Malas was previously at UBS, where he joined in 2004 as a Managing Director in high yield capital markets, led high yield financings in energy, power, media, and telecom sectors. Mr. Malas started his career in 1988 within the investment banking division at Goldman Sachs, where he ultimately was a Managing Director and Head of Natural Resources Capital Markets. Mr. Malas earned a BA from Johns Hopkins University in 1988 and his MBA from Harvard University in 1992.


Scott Coburn
Managing Director, Head of Equity Capital Markets Origination
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Mr. Coburn joined Gleacher & Company in May 2003. Mr. Coburn is responsible for the management of the firm's equity underwriting and private placement business. Previously, Mr. Coburn was with the Citigroup, Global Capital Markets, and Institutional Investor Group. Prior to Citigroup, Mr. Coburn was Head of Equity Capital Markets at PaineWebber, where he was responsible for the solicitation and execution of the firm's equity underwritings, amounting to $10 billion in total business, including approximately $1 billion in lead managed transactions. He was also a member of the firm's operating committee and was Co-Head of its equity commitment committee. Prior to his work at PaineWebber, Coburn spent more than 10 years at Smith Barney Inc., serving as a Managing Director within the firm's Equity Capital Markets division, where he managed the institutional executions of over 100 lead managed underwritings in multiple industries. Mr. Coburn has served as Chairman of the Securities Industry Association Syndicate Committee and was previously a board member of the Investment Association. He holds an MBA from Columbia University and an AB from Brown University.


Jason Partenza
Director

Mr. Partenza has approximately ten years of experience in Investment Banking and Capital Markets. Since joining Gleacher & Company in 2002, Mr. Partenza has worked on more than 80 financings raising more than $10 billion in gross proceeds including public and private equity and debt capital markets transactions. His experience covers various sectors including Energy, Healthcare, Industrials and Technology, amongst others. Mr. Partenza was also a member of the execution teams on significant corporate transactions at Gleacher & Company including the recapitalization in 2007, the private financings and the acquisition of American Technology Research in 2008, the acquisition of Gleacher Parnters and the $169 million equity offering for Gleacher & Company in 2009. Prior to Gleacher & Company, Mr. Partenza was a member of the Investment Banking group at Robertson Stephens, a prominent growth focused investment bank, where he was a member of the health care and communications teams. Mr. Partenza graduated from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business with a BS in Finance.