JUSTINE E. TOBIN
Managing Partner
Justine Tobin offers clients nearly three decades of experience in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance and has led Tobin & Company since its founding ten years ago. With extensive financial, analytical, and deal making experience within bulge-bracket firms on Wall Street and one of the country’s largest banks, Justine provides advice, guidance and success to clients in planning and executing their financial strategies.
Prior to founding Tobin & Company in February of 2001, Justine served clients at the premier firms of Salomon Brothers Inc, Goldman, Sachs & Company and Bank of America. Justine also led teams as a Managing Director at Stanford Keene where she developed a practice serving clients in all arenas of the information technology industry.
In her roles at Bank of America, Salomon Brothers Inc and Goldman, Sachs & Company, Justine advised Fortune 1000 companies on every aspect of their corporate financing and strategic activity. Justine co-founded the High Yield Finance Group at Bank of America and served clients in the Midwest such as Sealy, Inc. and Zurn Industries. She was an instrumental member of the Mergers and Acquisitions group of Salomon Brothers Inc. Justine guided clients through a complex acquisition strategy of a nationalized telephone system, executed several initial public offerings and secondary equity offerings and completed financings in the high grade, high yield, bank-financing and convertible-debt markets. At Goldman, Sachs & Company, Justine was a member of the Credit Department, which has now become one of the most respected risk management groups on Wall Street.
Justine earned her MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School in New York City. Justine also graduated with a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin with a double major in Finance and International Business and a minor in French. She holds the Series 28, 24, 7, 79, 99 and 63 securities license designations from FINRA.
Justine is a member of 85Broads, a networking organization of women related to Goldman, Sachs & Company. She is also a founding board member of Charlotte Regional Technology Executives Council, contributing her extensive deal-making experience in the information technology industry. Justine is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth, Charlotte Chapter and has served as a judge for the ACG Cup both at the preliminary level as well as the regional finals for the Raleigh Chapter. Justine is passionately involved in the foreign student exchange movement and in the public school system. She is also a member of Women Executives in Charlotte.
