THE SEAVIEW DIFFERENCE: ANALYTICAL INVESTMENT BANKING™

Seaview was founded in January 2002 with the vision of improving investment banking by combining the skills of equity research and corporate finance into one integrated banking team. Excellence in life sciences banking requires an unusual combination of scientific understanding and market intelligence in addition to a corporate finance capability. Seaview brings together the technical and financial skills, contacts and market perspectives that were once available as a package from the bulge-bracket investment banks when their equity research analysts and bankers could work in concert. Regulatory changes currently frustrate this collaboration and result in banks following a cumbersome, awkwardly choreographed process for identifying, comparing, and executing transactions. These constraints often lead to suboptimal transaction execution for companies with technically complex businesses in competitive environments.

Seaview was founded by Russell Pollack, previously a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers, and Joseph P. Dougherty, Ph.D., previously a senior research analyst in Equity Research at Lehman Brothers. Instead of covering companies, Joe is now an investment banker working to help investment banking clients with all their investment banking and strategic needs. The benefit of this model is that Seaview is able to provide unparalleled quality and technical depth, with the service and energy of a bulge bracket firm.

HAND CRAFTED INVESTMENT BANKING

Seaview gives each deal the full attention of its experienced bulge-bracket team.

Preparation

  • Staff each transaction with senior resources only found elsewhere on billion dollar bulge bracket deals
  • Maximize chances of finding and keeping the best counterparties
  • Create a professional and competitive atmosphere
  • Minimize the work for a counterparty to say “yes”
  • Issues are addressed squarely and honestly
  • We find the deal’s champion within the counterparty

Execution

  • We do the deal ourselves
  • Initial approach often done in person
  • Technical expertise immediately and always part of the sales process
  • We can put ourselves in the counterparty’s shoes (how it will look for their shareholders)