Stephen is the managing director and co-founder of Janes Capital Partners. He also leads Oaklins’ aerospace, defense & security (ADS) team. Starting his career on Wall Street, Stephen has over 25 years of corporate finance and investment banking experience, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, corporate divestitures, management buy-outs, and debt and equity financing. He has completed over 50 aerospace, defense & security M&A transactions valued at over US$4 billion. Notable transactions include advising Frontier Systems in connection with its sale to the Boeing Company, as well as industry legend Burt Rutan in connection with the sale of Scaled Composites to Northrop Grumman. More recent transactions include the acquisition of Thomson Aerospace & Defense, a subsidiary of Meggitt PLC (LSE: MGGT), by UmbraGroup S.p.A; the sale of Matrix Composites to ITT Inc. (NYSE: ITT); and the sale of IntelliPower to AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME). Stephen has extensive relationships with ADS companies both in the USA and overseas, and has been involved in a number of cross-border transactions.

Previously, Stephen held various roles of increasing responsibility at Credit-Suisse First Boston, Kayne Anderson and Irving Trust Company. He has an MBA in Finance from the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Business and a BA in Finance and Accounting from Georgetown University. Stephen regularly attends and speaks at various aerospace & defense industry conferences and trade shows.

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Ken is a Director at Janes Capital Partners. With over 10 years of investment banking experience, Ken specializes in mergers and acquisitions for the aerospace, defense and government markets. He has participated in domestic and international transactions, with a primary focus on sell-side advisory. He has worked on transactions across a wide variety of businesses in the ADS market, such as aerospace composites and machining, aircraft components and subsystems, MRO and aftermarket parts, defense electronics and advanced military technology. Notable transactions he has participated in include the sale of AC&A to AE Industrial Partners; the sale of Advatech Pacific’s E&C Division to General Dynamics Mission Systems (NYSE: GD); the sale of Matrix Composites to ITT Inc. (NYSE: ITT); the sale of IntelliPower to AMETEK (NYSE: AME); the sale of Argon Corporation to Spectra Aerospace & Defense, a portfolio company of Vance Street Capital; and the sale of Networks Electronic Company to ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ESE).

Prior to Janes Capital Partners, Ken began his career as an investment banking analyst at Aleutian Capital Group, where he advised lower to middle-market companies and private equity groups on M&A transactions across a variety of industries. Ken has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from Fordham University.

Chris is an Vice President at Janes Capital Partners. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions for the commercial aerospace, military & defense and space market segments. Chris has participated in domestic and international transactions, with a primary focus on sell-sides, including divestitures of divisions of large aerospace & defense companies. Notable transactions he has participated in include the sale of Matrix Composites, Inc. to ITT Inc., the sale of IntelliPower to AMETEK (NYSE: AME); the sale of Argon Corporation to Spectra Aerospace & Defense, a portfolio company of Vance Street Capital; and the sale of Networks Electronic Company to ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ESE).

Prior to joining the firm, Chris worked for Morgan Stanley. While at Morgan Stanley, he specialized in securitized product sales as an institutional fixed income analyst covering middle-market financial institutions. Before Morgan Stanley, he served as a credit analyst for City National Bank as part of the company’s commercial banking group. Chris has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Chapman University.