Jeffrey C. Nahley
Managing Director

Mr. Nahley has over 20 years of investment banking experience concentrated in the Business Services, Government Outsourcing and Healthcare sectors. Jeff has completed more than 100 transactions and engagements during the course of his career, including initial public offerings, follow-on and secondary equity offerings; high yield bond transactions and private placements of debt and equity; fairness opinions in connection with public mergers and acquisitions (M&A), as well as M&A buy-side, sell-side and unsolicited takeover representation.

Prior to joining Signal Hill, Jeff was a Founder, Board Member and Head of the Investment Banking Group with Avondale Partners, LLC since the firm’s inception in 2001. During Jeff’s tenure as Head of Investment Banking, Avondale completed approximately 120 investment banking transactions and assignments approaching $11 Billion of value. In addition, Jeff was responsible for developing Avondale's Investment Banking industry coverage practices; the firm’s M&A, Private Capital, and Public Offering product groups; and managed his own "book" of Business Services, Government Outsourcing and Healthcare clients and transactions. Jeff completed approximately 50 transactions and assignments exceeding $5 Billion of value while with Avondale. Clients included Psychiatric Solutions, Gwinnett Hospital System, Advocat, Continuum Healthcare, HealthSpring, ResCare, Triad Hospitals, Providence Service Corporation, The Brown Schools, Camelot Care, Corrections Corporation of America, The GEO Group, Cornell Companies, Correctional Systems, Behavioral Interventions, PRG Schultz, Goldleaf Financial and Triangle Capital.

From 2000 to 2001, Jeff was a Managing Director with ING Barings' Investment Banking Group focusing on Business Services and Healthcare; from 1993 to 2000, Mr. Nahley was an investment banker with Equitable Securities and managed the firm’s Government Outsourcing investment banking practice. Jeff started his career with Bankers Trust in 1986 where he spent 7 years focused on structured financings and M&A.

Mr. Nahley received his BA from Middlebury College in 1986 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1991.