


Kent Brown, Managing Director and Head of Capstone Headwaters' Debt Advisory Group, brings over 30 years of corporate debt placement and advisory experience having served as the senior banker on 100+ closed corporate debt transactions during his career for both corporate and sponsor-backed clients.
Kent has extensive experience in arranging various forms of middle-market corporate debt, including leveraged loans, asset-based loans, subordinated debt, second-lien and unitranche facilities, syndicated credit facilities, venture debt, equipment leases, private securitizations, sale-leasebacks, and mortgages, among other structures. Client engagements have involved most industry categories, including financial services, healthcare, consumer products and services, retail, technology, industrial, commercial services, and business services, among others. In particular, Kent has gained considerable experience within the Financial Services industry, having completed over 20 engagements involving senior debt, junior debt, equity capital, and M&A transactions for non-bank specialty finance clients within both the commercial and consumer finance sectors.
Previously, Kent was a Managing Director at William Blair & Company, a global investment banking and asset management firm, where he worked for over 25 years within the firm’s corporate debt advisory group. Kent began his career with Arthur Andersen & Co. where he worked with corporate clients within both the audit and corporate tax divisions.
University of Chicago - MBA - Finance
University of Colorado at Boulder - BS - Finance
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) - Illinois / inactive
FINRA - Series 7 & 63 Registered General Securities Representative
FINRA - Series 23 Registered General Securities Principal
FINRA - Series 79 Registered Investment Banking Representative
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Middle market (MM) lending activity came to a screeching halt in Q2 and only recently has new issuer volume returned, however, the focus initially has been on opportunistic, well-structured financings involving fundamentally sound businesses in recession-resistant sectors.Read more
Following $3.1 billion of volume between January and February, middle market (MM) lending activity came to a screeching halt in March as COVID-19 shuttered businesses, forced millions of Americans into the unemployment line, and tipped the U.S. economy into a recession.Read more