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Lawrence Guthrie
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
Lawrence is a Managing Director in the Financial Services Group in Stephens London office and is focussed on advising European and UK specialty finance businesses, both banks and non-banks, and receivables management companies. He has 35 years’ advisory experience, the last 25 of which have been dedicated to financial services.
Lawrence co-founded the financial services team at Hawkpoint in the late 1990s and subsequently at Quayle Munro which was sold to Houlihan Lokey in 2018 where he continued as a Managing Director until joining Stephens in 2023. He has advised on many transactions including the sales of Foundation Home Loans, Bluestep Bank, Titlestone, Enra and Marlin, the purchases of Shawbrook Bank, Cabot Credit Management, Collectia and a £6bn mortgage portfolio from the UK Government. Financings have included capital raises for Masthaven and Arbuthnot Banking Group.
Lawrence has an MA (Hons) from St John’s College, Cambridge where he studied Natural Sciences.