Investment Banking
Multi-Bank Securities, Inc. (MBS) provides capital markets, corporate finance and M&A advisory services to both community banks and non-bank lenders across the country. With decades of industry experience, MBS’s senior bankers have executed a variety of transactions across the balance sheet enhancing franchise value for our clients and creating long-standing relationships with key institutional leaders and investors. MBS prides itself on its collaborative team approach led by our senior bankers, who are intimately involved in each transaction.
As the banking industry continues to evolve and new lending competition enters the space, MBS has the experience and institutional contacts needed to raise various forms of capital and support balance sheet growth and strategy. Our deep ties with community banks and non-bank lenders provide our seasoned team with unique industry experience and perspective when exploring franchise enhancement transactions.
Why Choose MBS?
- Extensive industry experience
- Our business is focused on growing community banks providing strategic franchise advice and comprehensive solutions
- Structural flexibility and creativity
- Loan vs. bond
- Senior vs. sub debt
- Bank level subordinated debt
- Preferred and common equity
- Strategic advisory and valuation
- Streamlined capital execution strategy
- No paying agent
- Single counsel
- Lower cost execution
- Fully-integrated balance sheet coverage to provide the best advice for our clients
- Team of sales and trading professionals covering 4,000+ institutions across multiple offices gives us unique insight
Michael Coogan, CFA
Managing Director
(800) 967-9028
mcoogan@mbssecurities.com
Michael "Mike" Coogan joined MBS in 2024 as a Managing Director in investment banking. Mike specializes in working with depository institutions across the balance sheet. His deep experience in managing a bank balance sheet and running trading desks leads to keen insights and execution strategies to enhance shareholder value. Mike has spent more than 30 years in a variety of well-rounded senior positions in highly respected firms. From 2015 to 2024, Mike was a Managing Director in Brean Capital's Investment Banking group helping both bank and non-bank lenders raise capital, enhance balance sheet flexibility and explore strategic growth opportunities. From 2013 to 2015, Mike was a Senior Vice President in trading and sales for Fixed Income Capital Partners. From 2009 through 2013, Mike was an Executive Vice President and Treasurer at Southside Bank in Tyler, Texas. His multiple responsibilities included investment portfolio strategy and execution resulting in material increases in profitability, as well as assisting in the management of the balance sheet. He was also president of the company's subsidiary, Southside Securities. Mike was a key and instrumental leader in a variety of capacities all of which are beneficial in his current capacity at MBS. From 2006-2008, Mike was a senior vice president at ANB Financial where he oversaw all trading activity. From 1995-2006, Mike was the first senior vice president at Performance Trust Capital Partners. Michael earned a bachelor’s degree with departmental honors from DePauw University and earned his MBA from Indiana University, where he graduated Beta Gamma Sigma. He is a CFA® Charterholder and holds FINRA securities licenses Series 7, 24, 27, 52, 53, 63, 70 and 79.
Blair Brantley, CFA
Managing Director
(800) 967-9035
bbrantley@mbssecurities.com
Blair Brantley, Managing Director in investment banking, joined MBS in 2024. Blair brings nearly 25 years of corporate finance and equity research experience focused primarily on depositories. During his career he has been involved in a variety of transactions including M&A, fairness opinions, equity and debt capital market transactions, going-private deals, ESOP valuations, branch sales/purchases and other analyses. During his time in equity research, Blair’s efforts resulted in the coverage of nearly 50 different companies across all market-caps. In 2016, while focused on banks in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, Blair was named the No. 2 stock picker for banks and #8 overall stock picker by Thompson Reuters. Blair has a proven track record of thoughtful analytics, understanding capital markets and being an effective conduit between management and institutional investors. Prior to joining MBS, Blair was a managing director at Brean Capital from 2016 to 2024 in their Financial Institutions Group. Blair is a graduate of Randolph-Macon College. He is a CFA® Charterholder and holds FINRA security licenses Series 7, 66, 79, 86 and 87.