Brandon Sun

Managing Director, Head of SPAC Investment Banking

Brandon is one of the longest-serving SPAC bankers on Wall Street and is the Head of SPAC Investment Banking at Cohen & Company. Over the course of his 13 year investment banking career, Brandon has completed more than 120 initial public offerings (with most being left-led offerings) raising over $45bn in equity capital. More importantly, he has announced / closed over 130 de-SPACs and M&A offerings (mostly as lead or sole financial advisor), representing more than $210bn in combined enterprise value. Brandon has also led more than 60 PIPEs and follow-on equity offerings, raising more than $20 billion in equity capital.

Brandon is deeply involved from SPAC formation to deal completion, and prides himself in being a trusted advisor post-close through follow-on equity offerings, M&A transactions and warrant exercises / restructurings. In addition to covering premier SPAC sponsors, Brandon focuses on advising quality private company management teams / boards. As  a result, he has served as sellside financial advisor in several dozen transactions. Having completed deals across six continents and every major industry, Brandon also has deep expertise in certain industries such as critical materials / rare earths, quantum computing and cross-border public M&A.

Prior to joining CCM, Brandon helped lead / grow Deutsche Bank’s SPAC investment banking platform and was a Financial Institutions Group (FIG) banker for a decade. Beyond SPACs, Brandon brings domain expertise in permanent capital vehicles (including REITs, BDCs, closed-end funds, European-listed funds, etc.), specialty finance, alternative asset management and single-family rental REITs. He holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA from Carleton College. Brandon is a first-generation immigrant who was born in China and grew up in Canada. He currently resides in New Jersey with his growing family.