ABOUT US
OVER 3 DECADES OF EXPERTISE IN INVESTMENT, BANKING, CAPITAL MARKETS AND M&A.
Andrew Frawley founded Loyola Capital Advisors in 2023. Andrew has over 30 years of capital markets and investment banking experience, across a broad array of industries and products, including public and private equity, debt capital markets / advisory and M&A.
Before founding Loyola Capital Partners, Andrew was a Senior Managing Director of Huntington Capital Markets and Group Head of Loan Syndications, Loan Sales & Trading and Junior Capital. Prior to Huntington, Andrew worked at Key Banc Capital Markets in the M&A Group and in Debt Capital Markets / Loan Syndications. Prior to Key Bank, Andrew worked in M&A and Private Capital for Wachovia Securities in Charlotte, NC, and Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown in Baltimore, MD / New York, NY and was a CPA with Deloitte & Touche LLP.
Andrew is FINRA Series 7, 24, 63 and 79 licensed and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive). Board participation includes roles as President of the Board of Directors for Zelie’s Home in Cleveland, OH and a Founding Board Member and Treasurer of the Sacred Story Institute in Washington, DC. Andrew has a MBA from Indiana University and a BS from Georgetown University.
Andrew resides in Shaker Heights, OH, with his wife Amita and three children.
Russ Landon has over 25 years of experience in industry-focused investment banking, having completed over 150 transactions aggregating over $8 billion in transaction value. In addition to his responsibilities with Business Capital Exchange, Russ owns and runs North River Capital Advisors, an investment banking boutique that provides a wide breadth of services for companies in the Energy and Resource Technology sector, leveraging years of relationships and experience.
Previously, Russ was a Managing Director at KeyBanc Capital Markets, the investment banking division of KeyCorp, a commercial bank with $90 billion in assets, where he was responsible for a variety of transactions including public and private debt and equity, syndicated loans, M&A and other financial advisory services.
Before Key, Russ spent over 15 years at Adams Harkness (subsequently Canaccord Adams and then Canaccord Genuity), a leading investment banking and brokerage firm with a presence throughout the North America and Europe. At Adams, Russ ran the investment banking group and also founded and headed the firm’s Sustainability / Clean Technology practice and the firm's sustainable consumer practice, Healthy Living.
Russ received his M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and B.A. from Yale University. Russ has been a Board member of the Northeast Clean Energy Council, the leading Clean Energy policy and trade organization in the Northeast, since its formation in 2006. He is a Series 24 Registered Securities Principal and Registered Securities Representative (Series 7, 63, 79) with BML Securities LLC, of which he is a part owner.
Steve Madden is the founder and Managing Director of Business Capital Exchange, Inc. With more than 30 years at the Founder and Managing Director level, Steve's experience providing middle-market mergers and acquisitions advice is unique and extensive. He has managed and executed over 200 M&A transactions.
The large majority of Steve's transactional practice involves the sale of privately-owned companies and divestitures for large publicly listed multinational corporations. As a longtime entrepreneur himself, Steve's clients, who are operators of closely held businesses, value his thorough understanding of the skills required to successfully lead a business through multiple business cycles.
Steve has managed and closed transactions for an extensive list of well-known clients including private equity firms and publicly-listed companies such as Clean Harbors, General Electric, The Stanley Works, PerkinElmer, Standex International, Xtra-Vision plc and AET. He has cross-border experience having sold companies across the middle-market spectrum in North America, Europe and Asia. Steve's experience spans more than 50 different industries and includes highly profitable, high growth businesses to companies operating in Chapter 11.
Steve received his M.B.A. from the Franklin W. Olson Graduate School of Business at Babson College where he was the graduate school student body President, and earned his B.A. from Boston College. He is a Series 79 and 63 Registered Investment Banking Agent with BML Securities, LLC, a FINRA-registered broker-dealer partially owned by Business Capital Exchange, Inc.
FUN fact -
origin of loyola
Loyola is a historic area within the municipality of Azpeitia, in the Basque Country of Northern Spain.
The Loyola bearing represents two gray wolves, their paws resting on the handles of a cauldron which is suspended by black pot-hooks. The familial representations of the wolf (lobo) and cauldron (olla) developed into the name of Loyola (lobo y olla). These symbols are supposed to represent the generosity of the Loyola family who, during feudal warfare, provided their soldiers with so much food that the wolves always found something to feed on after the men had been supplied.
