Richard W. Petree

Managing Director

During his 22-year investment banking career, Rick Petree has initiated, structured and secured billions of dollars worth of international and domestic merger & acquisition and capital markets transactions. Before joining Ewing Bemiss & Co., Rick was a Managing Director of Westwood Capital LLC and a co-founder and Managing Director of MillRock Partners LLC, a boutique investment bank serving private middle market and public growth companies.

Prior to co-founding MillRock, Rick was a Managing Director in the London and New York offices of S.G. Warburg & Co. While at Warburg, Rick advised on large multinational M&A transactions and led Warburg’s banking activities in the U.S. pharmaceutical and oil and gas (E&P) sectors.

Rick left Warburg to pursue entrepreneurial and sovereign advisory activities in Central and Eastern Europe. He advised Prime Ministers and Cabinet members in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Former Republic of Yugoslavia and Ukraine on privatization transactions, capital mobilization and economic development strategies.
Before beginning his banking career, Rick practiced law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (New York) and Hale and Dorr (Boston). He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and of Oxford University (B.A. First Class), and is a member of the Council On Foreign Relations in New York.