Consumer Expertise

FBR's Consumer/Retail Investment Banking group adopts a distinctively entrepreneurial approach in serving public and private companies and institutional investors across a range of industry sub-sectors:

Apparel & Footwear
E-Commerce & Internet
Food & Beverage
Hardline Retail
Specialty Apparel Retail
Department Stores

We listen to our clients and understand their specific needs in order to assist them in building long-term value. In particular, we pride ourselves on our ability to generate unique value-creation ideas, offer innovative advice, provide attractive growth capital options and create shareholder liquidity alternatives for our clients.

Investment Banking

Our Consumer/Retail Investment Banking group brings a wealth of experience in advising companies across various setors of the broad consumer & retail industries. Our team is comprised of highly experienced investment bankers who have participated in hundreds of completed transactions during their careers. We seek to offer our clients a level of insight, understanding, execution and creativity that is unparalleled.

Institutional Brokerage

FBR focuses exclusively on areas in which we can clearly make a difference and add value. We do this by establishing broad and deep specialized industry platforms that offer sector-concentrated expertise in research, trading, distribution, investing, mergers and acquisitions and capital-raising.

Investment Banking Leads

William F. Detwiler
Sr. Managing Director & Co-Head of Consumer, Retail & Healthcare Investment Banking
Robert H. Swindell
Sr. Managing Director & Co-Head of Consumer, Retail & Healthcare Investment Banking

FBR believes that the independence and integrity of our Research team are paramount to our mission. FBR Research is completely independent from FBR Investment Banking.

Research Analysts

David Hilal, CFA
Director of Research, Senior Managing Director and Group Head of Technology, Media & Telecom