Mike Xenick

Meet Mike

Mike has been an investment banker for over 20 years working to raise millions of dollars of debt and equity capital for middle-market companies. At InvestAmerica, he leads the firm’s EB-5 Advisory Services and Support practice. Prior to starting InvestAmerica, Mike was Managing Partner of LCG Capital Advisors, a boutique lower middle market investment bank in Tampa, Florida for over five years, co-founding LCG’s FINRA-registered broker-dealer, representing dozens of the firm’s clients in raising debt/equity capital and merger & acquisition transactions. Mike also managed LCG’s advisory practice areas where there was a notable element of regulatory compliance, as well as various strategic partnerships of the firm. In 2010, Mike founded LCG’s EB-5 Advisory & Support Services Division, creating the capabilities and infrastructure noted above, spinning out this Division in 2012 into InvestAmerica Capital Advisors, LLC. Before joining LCG, Mike was a Managing Director for five years at Atlantic American Capital Advisors, a Tampa based investment bank, where he led many successful corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions across multiple industries including media/telecom, information technology, software, specialty finance, food and concessions, post-secondary education, manufacturing, business services, and nutritional health products. Prior to joining Atlantic American, Mike worked at Communications Equity Associates (CEA), a boutique global investment and merchant bank, where he served as a Vice President in CEA’s global investment banking practice for over eight years. After joining CEA in 1994, he provided investment banking, private equity, and strategic advisory services to CEA’s entertainment and new media clients in the U.S., the Middle East, and Asia, and was specifically responsible for the telecommunications, technology, Internet, and music industries, and successfully closed numerous middle-market private placements, corporate financing and merger and acquisition transactions within these industries. Before CEA, Mike worked for four years as a senior auditor for the international public accounting firm of Ernst & Young. He holds Bachelor and Master Degrees in Accounting from the University of Florida, is a CPA, and holds FINRA Series 7, 79, 24, and 63 securities registrations. He is married with three children. Mike is a VFR certified Private Pilot and has trained and competed in Iron-Man triathlon events.