
Investment Banking
Michael D. Rhea
Managing Director
Michael D. Rhea is a Managing Director at Brookline, actively involved in the firm’s public financings and capital markets advisory business. Before joining Brookline, Mr. Rhea spent many years at Oppenheimer & Co. in senior roles, including Institutional Equities and Equity Capital Markets positions. He also worked in similar capacities at a number of other established Wall Street firms, including Lehman Brothers. Throughout his career, Mr. Rhea has focused principally on emerging growth companies and, in particular, healthcare enterprises. He began his career in New York as a corporate litigation attorney before transitioning to Wall Street. Over the course of his career, Mr. Rhea has worked with hundreds of companies, providing advisory services and participating in the transaction process and closings of their financings.
Mr. Rhea holds a B.A. in Psychology and a J.D. from Tulane University, where his legal studies focused on litigation and maritime law.