Memphis, TN (Nov. 4, 2008) – Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc. announced that veteran investment banker Maureen A. Spivack has joined the firm as a managing director in the firm’s Shattuck Hammond Partners healthcare division. Spivack was formerly with UBS Securities, LLC, in New York City.
“Maureen’s experience and expertise in healthcare financing is a strong addition to our well-recognized healthcare platform,” said Michael Hammond, a managing director at Morgan Keegan and head of the Shattuck Hammond division. “Like our recent expansion to Nashville, the addition of Maureen in our New York office is part of an ongoing initiative to secure Shattuck Hammond’s position as one of the nation’s pre-eminent healthcare investment banking groups.”
Spivack has over 20 years’ experience in executing strategic and financial transactions for publicly traded, privately held and not-for-profit healthcare companies. Most recently, she was a managing director in the global healthcare group of UBS Investment Bank. Focusing on healthcare services companies, Spivack was responsible for managing and executing debt, equity and merger advisory services transactions for healthcare providers, disease management, dialysis and drug, and medical supply distribution companies.
Prior to UBS, Spivack served eight years as a managing director in the healthcare group of Merrill Lynch where she specialized in originating and executing M&A transactions in healthcare services and managed care. During her tenure at Merrill Lynch, Spivack negotiated the sale of more than $8 billion of hospital and managed care organization assets. Prior to that, she was a partner at Ernst & Young where she was head of the national healthcare corporate finance practice for ten years.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Spivack received her M.B.A. from the university’s Wharton School of Business, where she continues to mentor students. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from State University of New York at Albany and a master’s degree in health planning from the University of Pennsylvania. Spivack served as chairperson for the citizens’ budget advisory council of Millburn Township, N.J., for ten years. Currently, she is a board of trustee vice-president for B’nai Jeshurun Temple in Short Hills, N.J.
About Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc.
Morgan Keegan, one of the nation’s largest regional full-service brokerage and investment banking firms, is the securities brokerage subsidiary of Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE: RF). Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., Morgan Keegan has over 4,300 employees providing services in more than 350 offices.
Shattuck Hammond Partners Division of Morgan Keegan
More than 200 Morgan Keegan investment banking professionals provide capital markets, merger and acquisition and related services to multiple industries. The 50-person Shattuck Hammond division provides healthcare investment banking services through offices in Nashville, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and San Francisco. Shattuck Hammond Partners was acquired by Morgan Keegan in June 2007.
In the last ten years, Shattuck Hammond has completed more than 160 merger and acquisitions transactions totaling more than $12 billion in enterprise value, and has served as underwriter, placement agent, financial advisor or bid agent on capital markets transactions totaling more than $13.8 billion. Additional information about Morgan Keegan and Shattuck Hammond is at www.morgankeegan.com and www.shattuckhammond.com.
About Regions
Regions Financial Corporation is a member of the S&P Index and Forbes Magazine’s “platinum 400” list of America’s best big companies. With nearly $144 billion in assets, Regions is one of the nation’s largest full-service providers of consumer and commercial banking, trust, securities brokerage, mortgage and insurance products and services. Regions serves customers in 16 states across the South, Midwest and Texas, and through its subsidiary, Regions Bank, operates some 1,900 banking offices and more than 2,400 ATMs. Additional information about Regions and its full line of products and services can be found at www.regions.com.
Contact:
Melinda Rutland
901-531-3259
melinda.rutland@morgankeegan.com
