Sector Expertise
INVESTMENT BANKING
Jefferies sector expertise is both broad and deep, providing differentiated advisory and execution across a range of sectors and subsectors. Our investment bankers possess a holistic view of the market, deep relationships with the key companies, leaders and investors in their respective sectors, and connectivity with local clients and cultures.
Consumer
We advise companies in the consumer staples, consumer discretionary and retail industries on raising debt and equity and completing mergers and acquisitions and restructuring/bankruptcy deals.
REPRESENTATIVE Focus Areas
A full list of focus areas is available by request. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
- Apparel retailing
- Automotive aftermarket
- Beauty & personal care products
- Consumer products
- Food and beverage products
- Hardlines retailing
- Health, nutrition and wellness products
- Luxury goods
- Omnicommerce
- Restaurants & food service
- Grocery retail
Energy & Power
We advise companies that search for, produce, store, transport, refine, and market energy on raising debt and equity and completing mergers and acquisitions.
REPRESENTATIVE Focus Areas
A full list of focus areas is available by request. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
- Energy transition
- Oil & Gas downstream
- Oil & Gas exploration
- Oil & Gas midstream
- Oil field services
- Power & Renewables
- Utilities
Financial institutions
We advise commercial banks, insurance companies, specialty finance firms, brokerage/exchange companies, asset management firms, and financial technology companies on raising debt and equity and completing mergers and acquisitions.
REPRESENTATIVE Focus Areas
A full list of focus areas is available by request. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
- Asset & wealth management
- Banks & depositories
- Bank technology
- Broker dealers
- Commercial finance
- Consumer finance
- Insurance & insurance services
- Investment funds
- Market structure and technology
- Specialty finance
Financial sponsors
We are the world’s leading investment banking firm serving the private equity industry with the industry’s broadest, most experienced team of investment bankers. We work with more than 800 alternative asset managers across every region globally. Our coverage extends across the world’s largest alternative asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, middle market private equity funds, hedge funds, family offices and various other private markets investors. We serve our clients across the life cycle: fundraising, sourcing, advising on, and financing investment opportunities, and M&A, IPO, or continuation fund exits.
REPRESENTATIVE Focus Areas
A full list of focus areas is available by request. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
- Idea generation
- Buyside and sell-side M&A
- Acquisition financing
- Ongoing corporate finance, add-on and divestiture M&A support
- Exit strategies and exit execution
- Staple financing to support sell-side M&A
- IPOs and related public monetizations
- Equity derivative strategies
- Continuation vehicles and other structured exits
- Restructuring / Liability management
- Interest rate and foreign exchange hedging
- Primary capital / Fund formation
- GP advisory including stake sales and other forms of capital
Healthcare
We advise companies in the biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, healthcare service/facility, and healthcare IT sectors on mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity capital issuances.
REPRESENTATIVE Focus Areas
A full list of focus areas is available by request. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
- Acute and behavioral healthcare
- Biotechnology
- Generic pharmaceuticals
- Healthcare information technology
- Large-cap pharmaceuticals
- Life Sciences tools and services
- Managed care & Payor services
- Medical & Dental products
- Medical devices
- Medical technology
- Pharmaceutical services
- Post acute care services
- Retail healthcare
- Specialty pharmaceuticals
- Veterinary healthcare
Industrials
We advise companies that make machinery and large physical products, transport those products, or service those products on mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity capital issuances.
REPRESENTATIVE Focus Areas
A full list of focus areas is available by request. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
- Agriculture
- Automotive supply
- Automotive aftermarket
- Aviation
- Aerospace & Defense
- Building & Construction materials
- Business services
- Capital goods
- Chemicals
- Distribution services
- Industrial distribution
- Industrial services
- Industrial technology
- Logistics & Transportation
- Maritime
- Metals
- Mining
- Paper & Packaging
Leveraged finance & capital markets
We are a premier provider of debt solutions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. We help clients structure and access the capital they need with a creative approach to financing, superior capital markets expertise, deep industry insight, and global distribution capabilities. Our leading Debt Capital Markets team provides distribution and issuance expertise to corporate clients and institutional investors in conjunction with Jefferies Investment Banking.
REPRESENTATIVE Focus Areas
A full list of focus areas is available by request. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
- Investment grade credit
- Securitized markets (e.g., mortgage- and asset-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities, marketplace lending, mortgage and consumer finance)
- Municipal public finance
- Government and agency securities
- Structured solutions
- Emerging markets
- Corporate hedging
- FX solutions (for capital markets clients)
Municipal finance
Our Public Finance team is a first-tier underwriter in all areas of public finance and a market leader in helping issuers meet their financing needs. We advise tax-exempt entities such as state/local governments, publicly owned infrastructure/utility companies, and non-profits on debt issuances and occasionally other deal types, depending on the vertical.
REPRESENTATIVE Focus Areas
A full list of focus areas is available by request. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
- Airports
- Education
- General obligation bonds
- Healthcare
- Housing
- Not-for-profit entities
- State and local revenue bonds
- Public power
- State revolving funds
- Transportation
- Water and sewer
- Opportunity zones
- Tobacco settlements
Real Estate, Gaming & Lodging (REGAL)
We advise a broad spectrum of companies, including those in sectors such as residential, office, industrial, retail, storage, casino operators, leisure and lodging on mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity capital issuances.
REPRESENTATIVE Focus Areas
A full list of focus areas is available by request. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
- Data centers
- Gaming operators, online gaming, tribal gaming
- Industrial
- Lodging and leisure
- Lottery services and gaming equipment manufacturers
- Net lease
- Office
- Real estate owners
- Land developers
- Service providers
- Real estate private equity funds
- Residential: multifamily and single family
- Retail
- Self storage
Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT)
We cover and advise companies in the following areas on mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity capital issuances.
REPRESENTATIVE Focus Areas
A full list of focus areas is available by request. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
- AdTech
- Communications hardware
- Consumer digital platform & subscriptions
- Cybersecurity
- Data centers
- Digital & diversified media
- eCommerce
- EdTech
- Entertainment media
- Fintech
- Governance, reg & compliance software
- Horizontal application software
- Human capital management software
- Infrastructure software
- Internet marketplaces
- Mobility
- Online games
- Vertical software
- Payments & processing
- Proptech
- Publishing & broadcasting
- Semiconductors & electronics
- Small business software
- Sports media
- Technology services
- Telecom services
