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Justin Evans
Managing Director
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Financial Institutions Group
We provide investment banking, research, sales and trading, asset and wealth management, public finance, insurance, private capital, and family office services.
We are a family-owned financial services firm that values client relationships, long-term stability, and supporting the communities where we live and work.
The idea of family defines our culture, because each of us knows that our reputation is on the line as if our own name was on the door.
Our reputation as a leading independent financial services firm is built on the stability of our longstanding and highly experienced senior executives.
We are committed to corporate philanthropy; economic and financial literacy advocacy; and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Stephens is proud to sponsor the PGA TOUR, LPGA Tour, and PGA TOUR Champions careers, as well as applaud the philanthropic endeavors, of our Brand Ambassadors.
Stephens is the official investment banking partner of Williams Racing, one of the most winning teams in F1 history. We share that tradition of success.
We host many highly informative meetings each year with clients, industry decision makers, and thought leaders across the U.S. and in Europe.
Managing Director
Mr. Evans joined Stephens in 2015 as a member of the firm’s Financial Institutions Group to assist with investment banking coverage of banks and thrifts throughout the Southwestern United States. Prior to joining Stephens, he worked as a Vice President in Sterne Agee’s Dallas office and as an Associate in Keefe, Bruyette & Woods’ New York City office advising bank clients on M&A and capital markets transactions. Mr. Evans has been involved in 19 completed bank M&A transactions with an aggregate deal value of approximately $2.3 billion. M&A transaction experience includes buy and sell-side whole-bank transactions, branch acquisitions and branch divestitures, FDIC assisted transactions, and 363 bankruptcy transactions. In addition, he has served as an advisor on 24 completed bank capital markets transactions with aggregate proceeds of $2.9 billion. Capital markets transaction experience includes initial public offerings, public and private common stock follow-on offerings, convertible preferred stock offerings, and the issuance of subordinated notes. Mr. Evans graduated Cum Laude with a B.B.A. in finance in 2006 from Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.