About The Firm

Theatine Partners was founded in 2020 to offer clients independent strategic and financial advice of a character and quality largely unavailable in today’s Wall Street financial services marketplace.  All too many financial institutions and professional service providers are encumbered with business conflicts, a transactional mindset, and a “one size fits all” approach that offer clients a single “hammer” for their distinctive “nails”.

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

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

Biography

Richard J. Shinder is the founder and Managing Partner of Theatine Partners.  He has 30 years’ experience as a financial services professional, working in restructuring advisory, distressed investing, direct lending, and leveraged and project finance roles throughout the course of his career.

Prior to forming Theatine Partners, he was a Managing Director and Group Head of the Restructuring and Special Situations Group at Piper Jaffray & Co. (now Piper Sandler), a middle-market full-service investment banking firm. 

Before joining Piper Jaffray & Co. in 2016, he held Managing Director/Partner, Group Head and/or other senior-level roles with TPG, Perella Weinberg Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., Avenue Capital, Merrill Lynch & Co., and The Blackstone Group.  Mr. Shinder started his investment banking career with Lehman Brothers in New York.

Mr. Shinder earned an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated summa cum laude from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.

He currently sits as an independent or designee board director of several privately-held companies, operating in the retail, restaurant, health care, and oil and gas sectors. He also serves on the Board of Regents of Gonzaga University, the Gonzaga School of Business Dean’s Advisory Council, and the leadership committee of Catholic Renewal, and is also a member of the Economic Club of New York.

Richard J. Shinder is a Registered Representative of BA Securities, LLC. Member FINRA SIPC.