Brian McDonagh

Brian McDonagh is Co-Head of Baird’s Global Investment Banking business where he jointly oversees the firm’s global corporate finance and M&A activities. In addition, Brian is Co-Head of the firm’s M&A practice, playing a senior role on many transactions involving Baird's key banking clients. He is chairperson of Baird's fairness opinion committee. Brian has over 25 years of experience in the global M&A market, through which he has developed extensive experience in originating and executing a broad range of strategic transactions for publicly traded, sponsor-owned and privately owned middle-market companies across a wide variety of industries. Prior to joining Baird in 2008, Brian spent almost 13 years at Wachovia Securities in Charlotte, N.C., where he served as Head of the Industrial Growth M&A Group and as a member of the firm's fairness opinion committee. He also spent over a decade in New York in the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group of a predecessor firm to J.P. Morgan Chase, ultimately leading the origination and execution of domestic and cross-border advisory transactions with the firm's key industrial clients in his role as Co-Head of the Global Industrial M&A effort. Brian received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College.