HOVDE GROUP, LLC
INVERNESS, IL

Across our business, our goal is to help clients succeed, contribute to orderly and well functioning business and support their overall economic and franchise growth. Hovde Group is a leading financial services and investment banking firm that provides a full-service suite of investment banking, capital raising, and financial advisory services focused exclusively on the banking and financial services industry. We offer a broad range of advisory services designed to help banking and other financial institutions navigate complex financial, strategic, and regulatory options - all with the goal on increase your strategic effectiveness and operational and financial success. Our understand the unique needs of community-based institutions and national firms, and understand how to effectively communicate and work with key personnel, from senior executives and boards of directors to audit committees, CFO’s and other staff that are mission critical to your success.  Across our business, our goal is to help clients succeed, contribute to orderly and well functioning business and support their overall economic and franchise growth. We do this through a full suite of advisory services in the following areas: Firm Overview Founded in 1987 and possessing a distinguished industry heritage, Hovde Group draws from the many years of experience and the comprehensive banking and financial services expertise of our professionals to develop and provide innovative and value-added mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, sales and trading, investment, and advisory services for our clients and partners. are among the most experienced in the banking and financial services industry. Led by principals who have owned, operated and successfully invested and advised banks and other financial institutions for the last quarter-century, our team offers expert industry knowledge and insight. That expertise combined with a high level of service, direct accessibility and full accountability, mean that as our client, you’ll be provided with the best talent to ensure that your needs are met on time and as promised. Hovde Group has Hovde Group counts as its greatest asset the breadth and depth of its U.S. bank and financial institutions client base. Our firm works with a broad range of clients, including corporations, S-corporations, banks, holding companies, mutual institutions, and strategic investors to provide comprehensive strategic M&A advice, capital raising, sales and trading, equity research, and risk management and expertise. We are focused on and committed to building trusted, long-term relationships by taking a flexible and forward-looking view on our relationships, and identifying ways to help clients achieve their most important business objectives and goals. Mergers and Acquisitions services (traditional buy-side /sell-side advisory services); Hovde Group offers a complete suite of Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Research, Trading and Advisory Services to our clients. In a time of increased public scrutiny, complex regulatory and financial oversight, and increased financial and fiduciary demands, banks, thrifts and other financial institutions and their management need straightforward and expert business advice, delivered professionally and timely. Hovde Group has the expertise and track record to assist you in meeting those needs. The firm’s in-depth expertise extends to a wide range of strategic M&A and capital markets transactions, including, mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases and dispositions, restructurings, recapitalizations and reorganizations, branch divestitures, FDIC acquisitions, capital raising, buybacks, and other strategic affiliations and transactions. Hovde Group’s origins date back to 1987, when Donald Hovde, former undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (which later was became the Office of Thrift Supervision) together with Eric Hovde, established Hovde Financial, Inc. to provide community and regional banks and thrifts with M&A and strategic advisory services. Drawing from years of experience in the financial services and  banking industry, the Washington, DC-based team quickly grew into a major provider of investment banking services in the financial services sector. Drawing upon the success of its DC office, in 1988, the firm opened its second office in the Chicago-area, led by Steven Hovde. Following a career in accounting, real estate, and law, Steven Hovde opened the Chicago-based office to serve clients and investors interested in opportunities in the financial services industry. Since this time, the Hovde Chicago office has become the firm’s investment banking headquarters and has significantly contributed to The Hovde Group’s long-time and consistent success in financial services to banking and thrift institutions.  In 1989, to further facilitate and support the firm’s growing investment banking activities, the firm established its second major business line, Hovde Securities LLC. Hovde Securities (a member FINRA/SIPC), was created to support the investment banking operations of Hovde Financial by providing services in the areas of capital raising, private placements, underwriting, trust preferred securities, mutual-to-stock conversions, and other capital raising advisory services. In 1994, in order to capitalize on investment opportunities in the financial services sector, the firm’s partners organized Hovde Capital, which oversaw the Financial Institution Partners series of hedge funds, focused on financial services and real-estate opportunities. Also in 1994, Hovde Acquisition LLC was formed as a merchant banking organization to capitalize on strategic control and non-control positions in banks and thrifts. In 1995, the firm expanded its operations to the West Coast with the opening of a California-office to serve west-coast clients. In 2002, the firm opened a Florida office to serve Southeast clients, and in 2007, the firm opened a Texas office to serve clients in the south.