Our Focus is on You.
Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 1937, we are a primarily employee-owned, private company with more than 1,100 employees in offices across the country and in London. Originally a one-man brokerage firm, Mesirow Financial has grown to encompass six divisions of services:

• Investment Management
  Advanced Strategies, Currency Management, Equity Investments, Fixed-Income Investments, Investment Advisory
• Investment Services
  Broker/Dealers and Investment Advisors, Institutional Sales and Trading, Investment Brokerage
• Insurance Services
  Employee Benefits, Life, Personal Lines, Property & Casualty
• Investment Banking
  Corporate Investment Banking, Public Finance, Sale-Leaseback Capital
• Consulting
  Mesirow Financial Consulting, Compensation Strategies
• Real Estate
  Development, Consulting, 1031 Exchanges, Sale-Leaseback Capital

Despite our growth, however, our focus remains the same: on our clients.

Mesirow Financial understands, anticipates and meets its clients' changing financial needs with a multitude of high-quality products and services. Our goal is to assist each of our clients in attaining their financial goals. We strive to build ongoing relationships based on the highest levels of integrity, service and performance.

Your success... is ours.
Our firm is well-capitalized with more than $238 million in capital, $31.4 billion under management and more than $450 million in revenue for the fiscal year ending 3/31/07. In the 70 years that we have been in business, Mesirow Financial has:

• Experienced consistent growth, posting more than $450 million in revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007
• Become a leading provider of investment management services, with expertise in Hedge Fund of Funds, Private Equity, Currency Management and Equities and Fixed Income
• Grown to be one of the largest Chicago-based investment services firms offering Institutional Fixed Income Sales & Trading, Private Client Investment Services and Broker/Dealer and IA Services
• Achieved the honor of being Chicago's largest independent Insurance agency
• Grown a major regional presence in Investment Banking, Public Finance and Sale-Leaseback Capital
• Become a national leader in financial advisory consulting services, including Corporate Recovery, Litigation and Investigative Services, Valuation Services and Interim Management*
• Developed a premier Real Estate organization providing comprehensive solutions for complex real estate needs

 

*Interim Management services provided by Mesirow Financial Interim Management, LLC
Consulting services provided by Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC.
Compensation and benefit planning services provided by Mesirow Financial, Inc.