Meet the Founder

John founded Baymont with the premise of partnering closely with its clients, working arm-in-arm to deliver thoughtful, high quality, "hands-on" execution with superior outcomes. Baymont's "client-first" philosophy is anchored by a dedicated team of senior advisors who are engaged from start to finish, ensuring continuity, accountability, and alignment with client objectives throughout a transaction.

John has over 26 years of investment banking experience, having held leadership positions in full-service, bulge-bracket investment banks (UBS, Barclays Capital/Lehman Brothers), as well as playing an instrumental role in building and growing an independent merchant bank (Intrepid Financial Partners). John has advised on over 150 transactions with aggregate deal value north of $250 billion. John's transaction experience is deep and spans across strategic mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, take-privates and corporate recapitalizations.

In addition to M&A advisory work, John has also executed a myriad of public and private capital raising transactions including IPOs, primary and secondary equity offerings, preferred/convertible securities, investment grade bonds/loans and high yield bonds/loans. John's client relationships are vast and are principally focused in energy infrastructure, including publicly-traded corporations, MLPs and portfolio companies of private equity firms and infrastructure funds.