VICTOR J. SCHMERBECK - Managing Director (Dallas Office)
Mr. Schmerbeck currently serves as a Managing Director of the Corporate Finance team at First Southwest. Prior to joining First Southwest in April 2009, Mr. Schmerbeck was a co-founder and Managing Director of Aspen Advisors, LP, a boutique investment and merchant banking firm located in Dallas, Texas, focused on providing merger, acquisition, recapitalization, institutional capital, and restructuring advisory services to small-middle market owner-operated and family-owned businesses. Prior to co-founding Aspen Advisors in 2000, he served as Senior Vice President and Director of the Corporate Finance group at First Southwest from 1993-2000.
Mr. Schmerbeck’s corporate and merchant banking experience includes buy and sell side merger and acquisition advisory, public offerings of equity securities, private placements of equity and debt securities, recapitalizations and restructurings. This experience includes transactions in industries such as business services, broadcast/media, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, processing, retail, technology and telecommunications. Mr. Schmerbeck’s merchant banking activities have involved the analysis of principal investment opportunities and the ongoing monitoring of portfolio companies. He has served on various private and public company board of directors as well as numerous charitable organizations. Mr. Schmerbeck graduated with a B.B.A. in Finance and Real Estate from Southern Methodist University.
