R.F. Lafferty & Co., Inc., a leading broker-dealer and investment bank, has announced that James Grebenc, CFA, has joined the firm as Director, Capital Markets Sales & Corporate Access. Grebenc brings more than 27 years of capital markets experience, with a career focused on institutional equity and capital markets sales, corporate access, client development, and the generation of investment banking opportunities.

In his new role, Grebenc will focus on expanding R.F. Lafferty's institutional investor relationships, strengthening the firm's capital markets distribution capabilities, and developing its corporate access platform. In securities industry practice, corporate access refers to the connective work a sell-side firm performs—conferences, investor roadshows, and one-on-one meetings—that brings issuer management teams face to face with institutional investors, and it is a core part of the service set broker-dealers offer both companies seeking capital and the money managers that invest in them.

"We welcome James to R.F. Lafferty," said Robert Hackel, CEO of R.F. Lafferty. "His extensive institutional relationships and proven ability to build corporate access platforms from the ground up make him an important addition to our capital markets team. We believe James will enhance our ability to provide issuers with differentiated access to the institutional investment community while helping us continue to expand our capital markets offering."

Most recently, Grebenc served as Managing Director, Head of Capital Markets Sales & Corporate Access at Kingswood Capital Partners, where he generated investment banking opportunities across multiple sectors and was responsible for the firm's institutional sales coverage. Previously, he served as Managing Director, Institutional Sales/Corporate Access at Maxim Group, where he created a scalable corporate access platform and provided sales coverage to more than 300 institutional accounts. Earlier in his career, Grebenc held institutional and capital markets sales positions with JMP Securities, Lehman Brothers, and Robertson Stephens, among others. That background spans firms from global institutions to boutique advisors, and it aligns with the mandate defined for his new role, where the observable markers over time will be the institutional relationships, distribution capacity, and corporate access activity the firm develops.

"R.F. Lafferty is known for its dedication to clients and bespoke services," said Grebenc. "I look forward to bringing my experience in developing long-term institutional relationships and my network to R.F. Lafferty and working with the team to expand the firm's institutional reach."

Established in 1946, R.F. Lafferty & Co., Inc. is a global, full-service broker-dealer headquartered in New York, New York. The firm has been family owned and operated since 1970, and clients can expect exceptional experience, continuity in service, and true dedication from the people they work with at R.F. Lafferty. The company offers an array of customized services, including retail brokerage, wealth management, institutional sales and trading, market making, independent research, and investment banking. For boutique and mid-sized broker-dealers, the breadth of an institutional network and a functioning corporate access program are central to the investment banking offering, since issuers weigh a bank's distribution reach alongside other factors when selecting underwriters. More information is available on the firm's official website: