Cohen & Co. Hires MD to Lead Space Tech Coverage
Cohen & Company Capital Markets has appointed Pawel Skonieczka as Managing Director to lead its coverage of Space Technology, Aerospace, and Communications Infrastructure. The hire follows a year in which the firm closed $43 billion in transactions and signals a strategic focus on these TMT sub-sectors.
- Pawel Skonieczka previously spent nearly a decade at Deutsche Bank, where he was a Director who led the firm's global coverage of the space technology sector. - His past transaction experience includes advising satellite operator SES on its multi-billion dollar acquisition of Intelsat and arranging the equity raise for direct-to-smartphone satellite developer AST SpaceMobile. - The move signals a strategic focus on an industry sub-sector that is shifting from venture-style innovation to scaled industrial deployment, where consolidation and strategic M&A are expected to increase. - Skonieczka’s earlier career included roles at Macquarie Capital within the Leveraged Finance and Financial Sponsors group and at KPMG in the Economic and Valuation Services practice. - While at Deutsche Bank, he founded and hosted the firm's annual Global Space Summit, a key event for building the bank's franchise in the sector. - Cohen & Company Capital Markets is a boutique investment bank established in 2021
