Craig Lawson
Managing Director, MHT MidSpan
Craig has more than 20 years of sell-side and buy-side financial experience, including dedicated private and public company M&A experience spanning buy-side and sell-side transactions, private placements, LBOs, going private transactions, joint ventures, cross border transactions and fairness opinions. He co-heads MHT MidSpan’s consumer industry practice broadly speaking and has a particular focus on the natural and organic food and beverage space.
Prior to founding MidSpan Partners, Craig served as a senior banker in the San Francisco office of Harris Williams & Co. Additional experience also includes time in the mergers and acquisitions groups at Banc of America Securities, where he was a senior banker, and Bear Stearns, as well as serving as a securities analyst at Fidelity Investments.
A native of Vermont, Craig holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated cum laude with a BA in economics and history from Tufts University. He also holds the CFA designation.