Managing Director, CIT Healthcare

Wesley Smith is a managing director for CIT Healthcare. In this capacity he is responsible for originating and leading M&A and leveraged finance transactions for clients in the acute care, skilled nursing and homecare segments.

Since joining CIT Healthcare in April 2007, he has originated several advisory and financing assignments, including publicly traded Allion Healthcare’s recently completed $118 million acquisition of BioMed America. CIT served as Allion’s sole financial advisor in this transaction and also underwrote a $55 million senior secured credit facility to fund the BioMed acquisition. Smith has worked in the healthcare and investment banking industries for 16 years.

His experience includes 9 years of investment banking and 7 years of healthcare services business development and operations. Prior to CIT Healthcare, Wesley was an investment banker in the healthcare groups at Deutsche Bank and, more recently, Thomas Weisel Partners. Wesley received his B.A. from Hobart College and his MBA from Columbia Business School.

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