Seaport Global Securities Expands Mining and Metals Practice

Kurt Oehlberg Joins Firm as Managing Director, Chad Jennings as Vice President;
Both Executives to Initially Concentrate on Coal Sector

NEW YORK & NEW ORLEANS--()--Seaport Global Securities LLC today announced that Kurt Oehlberg has joined its investment banking department as Managing Director, Mining and Metals, and Chad Jennings has signed on as Vice President, Mining and Metals.

Both executives will initially concentrate on the coal sector and opportunistically expand into other mining and metals sectors. Their appointments follow the addition last year of coal sector research analyst Mark Levin, who joined Seaport Global from BB&T.

"Kurt and Chad both bring to Seaport Global more than 40 years of relevant, combined investment banking and industry experience in the broad natural resource sector,” said Co-CEO Daniel O. Conwill IV. "Their deep transaction experience, knowledge of, and concentration on, the coal segment will add a timely, important expertise for our growing client roster.”

Oehlberg’s career prior to joining Seaport Global includes more than thirty years of experience with firms including Rothschild, Inc., Chase Securities, and FBR Capital Markets. He has advised on more than 50 separate coal and mining M&A transactions.

Jennings brings to Seaport Global more than a decade of investment banking and corporate business development experience related to energy and natural resources. He has held positions with Contura Energy, Alpha Natural Resources, and FBR Capital Markets.

About Seaport Global Securities

Seaport Global Securities LLC (www.seaportglobal.com) offers a full range of investment banking, capital markets, financial advisory, sales, trading and research services.

Co-headquartered in New York and New Orleans with offices across the US and in Europe, Seaport Global pairs its extensive knowledge and relationships in the energy, industrials, mining and metals, chemicals and shipping industries, with a large platform of equity and fixed income sales, trading and research. The firm’s forward-thinking practitioners, backed by decades of experience, focus on meeting clients’ goals in all business and economic cycles.

Contacts

Seaport Global Holdings LLC
Lisa Weiss, 212-601-9071
Director of Human Resources
lweiss@seaportglobal.com

Release Summary

Seaport Global Securities Expands Mining and Metals Practice; Kurt Oehlberg Joins Firm as Managing Director, Chad Jennings as Vice President.

Contacts

Seaport Global Holdings LLC
Lisa Weiss, 212-601-9071
Director of Human Resources
lweiss@seaportglobal.com