Leadership Spotlight

Gabriel Stengel knows the junior banker grind from the inside. He slept under his desk at Lazard before founding Rogo, an AI platform built specifically for investment banking and private markets. Today Rogo counts Jefferies among its users, works with the majority of bulge bracket banks, and sits at an unusual intersection: it is simultaneously a customer, a distribution partner, and a potential competitive target of OpenAI and Anthropic.

Omer Ismail joined Jefferies at the Private Growth Conference in Santa Monica, where he described the conference as “a great opportunity to network with other builders, hearing their stories, exchanging ideas, talking about trends in AI and the marketplace.” He sat down to discuss OnePay’s strategy, its use of AI, and why he thinks the next era of US fintech belongs to platforms. 

Evans sat down at the Jefferies Private Growth Conference in Santa Monica, where he described the event as “speed dating at its most efficient — exactly who we are as a productivity company,” to talk about context, consolidation, and what it takes to build a company that outlasts its founder. 

On the data point that seed stage deal volume was down 25% in Q1, Acharya pushed back entirely. “That doesn’t match my experience at all. There are more people trying new things than ever before because the cost of trying has gotten so low. We’re seeing more seed deals than ever before.”

As oil and gas M&A activity has surged over the past two years, a relatively new financing structure has quietly moved from the margins of the market to the centre of some of its most competitive deal processes.

In July, Jefferies’ Private Capital Advisory team released its mid-year review of the secondary market, consolidating discussions, surveys, and research from the market’s biggest and most influential limited partners, general partners, and secondary buyers. This report follows Jefferies’ H2 2023 secondary market review, which predicted near-record secondary volume, higher LP pricing, and a sustained capital […]

This explosive growth in data centers, coupled with infrastructure and power constraints, presents both challenges and opportunities for a myriad of sectors, including utilities, energy, capital goods, infrastructure/construction, and more. A new report led by Jefferies Utilities and Clean Energy team, with input from more than 20 Jefferies analysts around the world, explores the implications of this growth, the economic dynamics, and the strategic moves needed to sustain the sector’s expansion.

To better understand Canada’s growth story, we asked John Manley – the new Chairman of Jefferies Canada and a former Deputy Prime Minister with a decorated career in law, business and public service – to share his thoughts.

Philip Noblet, Head of UK and Ireland Investment Banking at Jefferies, discusses October inflation data and its potential impact on dealmaking.