David Istock

David serves as a Managing Director and Head of M&A, US. He has experience advising public and private companies in domestic and cross-border transactions involving corporate sales, divestitures, acquisitions, joint ventures, takeover defense, shareholder activism, leveraged buyouts/recapitalizations, stock buybacks and spinoffs. David has approximately 25 years of M&A experience and joined Canaccord Genuity in 2014 from Cowen and Company, where he served as Managing Director and Head of Technology M&A.  Before that, he was a senior member of the M&A teams at UBS Investment Bank and PaineWebber Incorporated and a Founder and Managing Member of the technology-focused venture capital fund Bluefish Ventures. David graduated cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics and concentration in Finance.

Location: San Francisco, US

Contact:
distock@cgf.com
+1 415 229 0667

Selected transactions completed include:

• Financial Advisor to 10X Capital Venture Acquisition Corp. II on its Business Combination with PrimeBlock
• Financial Advisor to Environmental Impact Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq:ENVI), a Canaccord Genuity Sponsored SPAC, on its Merger with GreenLight Biosciences
• Financial Advisor to EPAM on its Acquisition of Emakina Group
• Financial Advisor to Newtown Lane Marketing on its Merger with Appgate
• Financial Advisor to LSI Industries on its acquisition of JSI Store Fixtures Inc.
• Financial Advisor to BCTG Acquisition Corp. on its merger with Tango Therapeutics
• Financial Advisor to Leaf Group Ltd. on its sale to Graham Holdings Company
• Financial Advisor to Synacor on its Acquisition by Centre Lane Partners
• Financial Advisor to Digi International, Inc. on its acquisition of Opengear
• Exclusive Financial Advisor for I.D Systems on its acquisition of Pointer Telocation
• Financial Advisor to Top Image Systems Ltd on its sale to Kofax.
• Financial Advisor to Reis on sale to Moody's
• Financial Advisor and Joint Bookrunner to AdestoTechnologies on its acquisition of Echelon Corporation and equity follow-on offering
• Financial Advisor to Kratos on its acquisition by Securitas