FT Partners is an investment banking firm established in 2001 with a singular focus: advising founders and CEOs in the financial technology sector. Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, Miami, and London, the firm operates as a full-service advisory house, offering merger and acquisition advisory, private capital raising services, and capital markets guidance to FinTech companies.
The firm employs over 250 investment banking professionals and has been involved in some of the sector's most significant transactions, including billion-dollar deals involving Coinbase, Charles Schwab, Robinhood, and Western Union. FT Partners was founded by Steve McLaughlin, a former senior investment banker at Goldman Sachs who led both the Financial Technology Group and Financial Institutions Group. The firm has received multiple 'Investment Bank of the Year' awards since 2004 and was recently named 'Dealmaker of the Year' and 'Investment Banking Firm of the Year' by The M&A Advisor.
