Mindi McClure joined The Bear Companies (http://www.thebearco.com/) in 2006 to expand the firm’s capabilities in financial services. She previously spent fifteen years at Friedman Billings Ramsey where she was most recently a Senior Managing Director of FBR’s Financial Services investment banking practice. During her tenure there she completed approximately $8 billion of capital markets and advisory services transactions for banks and other financial services companies. She was instrumental in developing FBR’s financial services investment banking practice and was responsible for developing and managing many of the firm’s most important client relationships and executing innovative transactions on their behalf. These transactions included the best performing IPO in the US in 2003 and numerous bank management lift-outs and capitalizations. In addition, she was instrumental in some of the most complex bank and thrift restructurings and recapitalizations completed in the early 1990s. These transactions included investor rights offerings and common stock; non-cumulative-perpetual preferred and trust preferred stock; and subordinated and senior debt offerings structured to meet specific regulatory capital targets while limiting adverse tax consequences and enhancing investor returns. She received a B.A. in English Literature from The University of Richmond.