Prior to joining The Mercanti Group in 2006, Eric worked at A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. as an investment banking analyst in the Energy Group. At A.G. Edwards, Eric was responsible for analyzing public and private companies in the Oil & Gas and Utilities sectors. As a member of the Energy Group, Eric worked on a variety of advisory assignments including buy-side acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, restructurings and capital raisings in the form of IPOs, follow-on equity offerings, private placements and institutional and retail debt. Prior to A.G. Edwards, Eric worked at Deutsche Bank Securities in the Equity Capital Markets division where he helped complete numerous IPOs, follow-on equity offerings and convertible debt offerings. Eric has worked with clients such as General Electric, China Life Insurance Co. Ltd., Marathon Oil Corp., WPS Resources Corp. and Avista Corp. Eric graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in Finance. |