Medical Devices
The traditional model of building medical technology companies continues to transform in the post-2008 world. Our team recognizes that formerly predictable transaction timelines have evolved into extended initiatives that require customized, creative strategies to help ensure success.
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Our medical devices team aligns with both emerging and established medical technology companies to be a trusted advisor and partner in mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and strategic collaborations. We operate with a long-term relationship mindset, rather than a short-term transactional one.
Team
Our leading team of professionals leverage their knowledge, experience and singular healthcare focus to help our clients define and achieve their strategic, capital markets and investment objectives.
Related Banking Team

Michael Giaquinto
Senior Managing Director, Medical Supplies & Devices
Michael Giaquinto is a Senior Managing Director in Investment Banking at SVB Leerink covering the Medical Devices sector.
Mr. Giaquinto has nearly three decades of healthcare investment banking experience, including 20 years of transactions focused on Medical Devices. Prior to joining the firm in 2018, Mr. Giaquinto served as the Head of Medical Devices & Diagnostics at Greenhill where he spent 10 years dedicated exclusively to providing mergers & acquisitions advisory services to his clients. Prior to Greenhill, Mr. Giaquinto spent more than a decade at Citigroup where he served as Co-Head of its U.S. Healthcare Group. He also worked in the health care groups of UBS and Kidder, Peabody. Mr. Giaquinto has worked on more than 150 financings and M&A transactions valued at over $100 billion during his career.
Mr. Giaquinto earned his M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in Accounting from Boston College.

Jed Cohen
Managing Director, Medical Supplies & Devices
Jed Cohen is a Managing Director in Investment Banking at SVB Leerink covering the Medical Devices sector.
Mr. Cohen has over 25 years of healthcare investment banking experience, including 12 years at Citigroup and three years at UBS prior to joining SVB Leerink. Jed’s transaction experience includes advisory work and financing assignments with clients across the healthcare industry, with an exclusive focus on “middle market” / emerging growth segments of the medical technology industry since 2000.
He received a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
Related Research Team

Danielle Antalffy
Managing Director, Medical Supplies and Devices
Ms. Antalffy is a Senior Research Analyst at SVB Leerink covering Medical Supplies and Devices. Her area of specialty is companies in the cardiology, diabetes, and emerging medical technologies fields.
Prior to joining the firm in 2008, Ms. Antalffy worked as an Associate at the Bear Stearns Institutional Investor ranked Medical Supplies and Devices research team. Her coverage responsibilities included large-cap diversifieds, cardiology, and hospital supply MedTech companies. Prior to Bear Stearns, Ms. Antalffy worked as an associate at Janney Montgomery Scott on the Medical Supplies and Devices equity research team. Ms. Antalffy started her career at Janney Montgomery Scott as an Investment Banking Analyst focusing on healthcare and IT.
In 2013, Ms. Antalffy was named a “Rising Star of Wall Street Research” by Institutional Investor.
Ms. Antalffy holds a B.S.E in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Richard Newitter
Managing Director, Medical Supplies and Devices
Rich Newitter is a Senior Research Analyst at SVB Leerink covering Medical Supplies and Devices. His area of specialty is companies in orthopedics, aesthetics, hospital supply and capital equipment, and emerging medical technologies.
Prior to joining the firm in 2008, Mr. Newitter worked at J.P. Morgan as an associate on the Institutional Investor #1 ranked Medical Supplies and Devices research team. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Vice President at Alliance Capital Management, first as a quantitative analyst, then covering a sector.
Mr. Newitter earned an M.B.A. from Cornell University and a B.A. in History from Washington University in St. Louis.