james mcnaughton
janney montgomery scott llc
managing director, healthcare investment banking
Mr. McNaughton is a managing director in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Janney Montgomery Scott. Over Mr. McNaughton's 19-year investment banking career, he has helped clients raise more than $6 billion in capital and executed more than $2 billion in aggregate merger and acquisition transactions. Mr. McNaughton is responsible for sourcing and executing capital markets financing and corporate finance advisory assignments for publicly traded and privately held companies in the biotechnology, specialty pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and laboratory tools, and equipment sectors. Mr. McNaughton also serves as a member of Janney’s Fairness Opinion Committee.
Prior to joining Janney in 2001, Mr. McNaughton served as an associate in the corporate finance department of ING Barings, where he worked extensively with public and private companies in the media and entertainment, general industrial, and business services industries. Mr. McNaughton began his investment banking career at Furman Selz, which was purchased by ING Barings in 1997.
Mr. McNaughton received a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. in finance from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.