Energy

Imperial Capital’s Energy Group has significant expertise providing capital markets and financial advisory solutions to small and middle market companies. The team has a strong track record of identifying undervalued and special situation investment opportunities for institutional clients.

In addition to significant investment banking and investing experience, our principals have deep operating and engineering experience which allows for the delivery of region-specific, tailored, unique and value-added restructuring, asset divestiture, merger, acquisition and financing solutions for energy investors and energy companies of all sizes. The sectors in which we specialize include:

  • Exploration and production
  • Oil services, onshore and offshore
  • Midstream, including marketing, gathering, processing and transportation
  • Refining, marketing, chemicals and petrochemicals
  • Power, utilities, mining and coal

Imperial Capital also focuses on the Clean Energy sector.

For more information on our Energy Group’s capabilities, please contact:

Ken Morris

Managing Director
Investment Banking Group
(212) 351-9755
kmorris@imperialcapital.com

Ken Morris is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Imperial Capital’s Energy Investment Banking Group. He is based out of the New York office of Imperial Capital. Mr. Morris joined Imperial Capital with a distinguished career in investment banking along with a wealth of industry knowledge. He was most recently a Partner and Board member of Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC. His over 20 years of experience began on Wall Street as a sell-side Trader at various investment banks, including Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder as a Senior Trader, Schroders, Inc and the Royal Bank of Canada as a Senior Equities Trader and Director of Energy Trading. Mr. Morris received an M.A. in Economics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and a B.S. in Finance and Economics from the University of Delaware.

Tom Pritchard

Managing Director
Investment Banking Group
(212) 351-9406
tpritchard@imperialcapital.com

Thomas Pritchard is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Imperial Capital’s Energy Investment Banking Group. He is based out of the New York office of Imperial Capital. Mr. Pritchard joined Imperial Capital with over 20 years of financial industry experience. He was most recently the Founding Partner and Chairman of the Board of Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC, a boutique investment bank, focused solely on the Energy sector. He was also a Co-Founder of Offshore Tool & Energy, an oil service company listed on the London AIM and sold to London Merchant Securities in 2002. Over the course of his career, he has advised numerous companies on critical strategic matters, including mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. His prior experience includes Jefferies & Company, Johnson Rice & Company and Bear Stearns. He began his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. Pritchard graduated from Washington & Lee University with a Bachelor's degree in Geology.

Jeffrey Zolkin

Managing Director
Head of Leveraged Finance
(310) 246-3626
jzolkin@imperialcapital.com

Jeffrey Zolkin is Managing Director, Head of Leveraged Finance at Imperial Capital based out of Los Angeles. Mr. Zolkin has over 15 years of experience in the securities industry with expertise in global leveraged finance, distressed debt, restructuring and special situation transactions. Mr. Zolkin's career in investment banking has focused primarily on middle market companies for which he has completed capital raises in excess of $10 billion in addition to numerous mergers and acquisition, restructuring and special situation transactions across multiple industry segments including basic materials, industrial manufacturing, consumer goods, aerospace and defense, automotive, telecommunications, energy and oil services. Most recently, Mr. Zolkin was a co-founder of the debt capital markets group at Global Hunter Securities where he was a Managing Director. Prior to Global Hunter Securities, Mr. Zolkin was a senior banker at Jefferies & Company and prior to that at Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin. Mr. Zolkin received his M.B.A. from Columbia Business School with Beta Gamma Sigma honors and his B.A. from the University of California, Irvine.