About The Firm

Theatine Partners was founded in 2020 in order to offer clients senior-level, independent investment banking advisory services.  We avoid structural business conflicts and adapt our approach and services to best fit our clients’ needs in a manner specific to each situation.  We align our incentives with client objectives, and provide a consistently high level of service with integrity.  We believe we are differentiated from many of our competitors not only through excellence and client satisfaction, but by also offering exceptional value for money given our lower overhead organizational structure.

Our mission is to help our clients meet their objectives through the application of a merchant banking mindset, where our success aligns with yours.  We do this by undertaking detailed analysis, informed by empirical discipline, and offering insights and judgment informed by decades of relevant experience.  We place a special emphasis on communicating clearly with clients and counterparties, and always maintain the highest levels of professionalism even in the most challenging situations.

As a boutique firm, we have the flexibility to approach prospective engagements from the vantage of “how can we best help?” and not “here is a service we can offer you”.  We believe we are at our best when we ideate with potential and existing clients about the most appropriate or impactful role we can play, and our ability to act as an advisor, fiduciary or principal as a situation dictates enhances the solution set we bring to any task. 

We were founded and are led by Richard Shinder, a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry with extensive experience in investment banking restructuring advisory, distressed investing, special situations lending, and leveraged finance.