Robert Minear

Robert Minear is a Senior Managing Director in Investment Banking at Leerink Partners focused on leading the Firm’s financial sponsor origination and mergers and acquisition efforts to further enhance the Firm’s growing private equity and M&A businesses. With over 25 years of investment banking experience, Mr. Minear has advised a wide variety of domestic and international financial sponsor and strategic clients in connection with, inter alia, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs/split-offs, restructurings, recapitalizations, buyouts, takeover defense, proxy contests and capital raisings.

Prior to joining the Firm in 2021, Mr. Minear was a Senior Managing Director in the Healthcare Services Investment Banking Group at Guggenheim Securities focusing on advising companies and financial sponsors in the healthcare services sector. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director and Head of Healthcare Services Mergers and Acquisitions in Jefferies Group’s Healthcare Investment Banking practice and a member of the M&A groups at UBS, both in New York and London, and Deutsche Bank.

Mr. Minear earned his Masters of Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London.