Shanker Merchant

Mr. Shanker Merchant joined Riverside Management Group (RMG) in May 2018 to focus on developing investment banking business in the middle-market financial institution and specialty finance sectors. Mr. Merchant has 30 years of corporate finance and structured finance business development and execution experience at Wachovia Securities, Prudential Securities and Citigroup. Prior to joining RMG, he worked as a Managing Director at CAVU Securities developing investment banking business in the community banking sector, and worked at three other boutique investment banking firms: CastleOak Securities, Cabrera Capital and NewOak Capital, as a Managing Director developing new business. Mr. Merchant’s corporate finance experience includes public and private debt and equity capital raise, and M&A advisory transactions. His structured finance experience includes asset-backed, mortgage-backed, insurance-linked, and hedge-fund-linked securities, and tax-exempt/taxable swap transactions. Mr. Merchant earned an MBA-Finance degree from Columbia University and a PhD-Physics degree from City University of New York. He has published over fifteen articles in banking, Insurance, asset-management and Physics. He holds Series 7, 63 and 52 securities licenses.