Tigress Financial Partners, the nation’s only disabled and woman-owned investment firm, today announced that Matthew Sperling, a leading equity capital markets banker on Wall Street and former corporate executive, has joined Tigress as Chairman, Capital Markets and Advisory Board Member.
Mr. Sperling has over 25 years of experience in equity capital markets and investment banking in addition to serving as a senior public company executive focused on capital markets and investor relations. Mr. Sperling’s broad experience and deep expertise includes leading, advising, structuring, executing and/or pricing over 250 equity transactions that raised over $97B, performing board advisory, M&A and DCM mandates, and driving in-house corporate transaction analysis, execution, and shareholder interaction.
Founded in 2011 by Wall Street veteran Cynthia DiBartolo, Esq., Tigress has evolved into a premier diversity NYSE/SEC/FINRA registered full-service broker dealer providing services in capital markets underwriting, investment banking, equity research, global debt and equity securities sales and trading, and investor services, including global wealth management and asset management. Regarding Mr. Sperling’s hiring, CEO DiBartolo commented: “We are very pleased to have Matt join Tigress in this role and become a member of our Advisory Board, and we look forward to the many ways in which Matt can add value as we continue to build upon our momentum helping high quality companies execute their IPO’s, equity and debt transactions.”
Mr. Sperling founded and ran Rothschild’s equity advisory business in the U.S., during which time he advised on some of the highest profile ECM transactions ever completed, including Alibaba’s $25B IPO, the Canadian government’s block trades of $3.7B of General Motors stock, Spotify’s $31B direct listing and Teva Pharmaceutical’s concurrent $7.4B common stock and convertible offerings. In 2020, Mr. Sperling joined his client, IHS Towers as Vice President, Capital Markets & IR and Head of U.S. Operations. At IHS, he led the company’s IPO and the equity capital markets function, established the investor relations group, opened the New York office and oversaw U.S. operations. In 2024, Mr. Sperling founded RawlsOccam Insights, an equity transaction advisory and ECM expert witness services firm. He started his career practicing securities and corporate finance law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett before moving to investment banking as an equity capital markets banker on the desks of Credit Suisse, UBS and then Jefferies, where he led ECM origination in a number of sectors.
Speaking about his new role, Mr. Sperling stated: “I have long admired Cynthia and the amazing work she and Tigress are doing in the investment banking sector, particularly the firm’s commitment to mission-driven principles of inclusion, its authentic culture of competing for business based on its capabilities and merit, and its unique approach of partnering with its clients to dedicate a portion of Tigress’ revenues to those clients’ philanthropic efforts. Importantly, as we work to further grow Tigress’ business managing IPO’s and equity offerings, I am especially excited about the firm’s high quality research coverage – one of very few such efforts in the minority, veteran and woman-owned broker dealer sector – and Tigress’ expansive international distribution platform is a unique value-add for clients. Having driven countless capital markets transactions from the perspectives of a bookrunner, advisor and corporate executive, I look forward to helping companies access and navigate these improving yet still complex markets.”
Mr. Sperling has an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He on the Executive Committee and Co-Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board of Third Street Music School Settlement, a 130-year old institution that is the longest-running community music school in the U.S.
About Tigress Financial Partners
Tigress Financial Partners is the nation’s only disabled and woman-owned financial services firm providing institutional and high net worth investors with expertise in investment banking, capital markets, research, corporate advisory and global trade execution services, asset management and global wealth management. Tigress Financial Partners LLC is a national dual certified Disabled- Owned Business Enterprise and Woman-Owned Business Enterprise,
Tigress is one of only two diversity firms to be a Floor Member of the NYSE which supports its global agency equity trading business capabilities. The firm has partnered with BlackRock to provide mission-driven cash management solutions that empower clients with the ability to mobilize their cash for positive social change with two (2) share class money market funds. Tigress offers a wide range of innovative institutional fixed income trading solutions to clients worldwide with particular emphasis on rates and corporates while continuing to service its long-standing high net worth clients via its wealth management group.
Tigress is a Member NYSE, FINRA, SEC and MSRB. For further information about Tigress Financial Partners, please visit: https://www.tigressfp.com.
