Curt Karges

Curt Karges, a FOCUS Managing Director, has over 30 years’ experience in investment banking in the Industrial, Energy, and Environmental sectors. He enjoys a diversified client base in many industries, including engineering and construction, oil and gas services, capital goods, waste and environmental services, specialty contracting, industrial services, business services, consumer brands, and beer distribution.

Mr. Karges has represented clients from emerging new businesses to multi-billion-dollar global firms. He has helped clients raise billions of dollars in equity, debt, mezzanine and hybrid markets, both public and private. He has developed strategies for clients and implemented balance sheet structures to support those strategies, including M&A transactions to execute that vision.

At FOCUS Mr. Karges consults with corporations, families, and investors interested in mergers & acquisitions, capital raising, and strategy development.

Prior to joining FOCUS, Mr. Karges led PwC’s Houston corporate finance practice and was its global sector coordinator for energy. Before that he worked 30 years at J.P. Morgan Chase, where he founded the bank’s mid-cap investment banking business for the U.S. Gulf Coast region. 

Contact Information

Curt Karges

Managing Director and Industrials and Energy Team Leader

curt.karges@focusbankers.com

Phone: 713-748-9292