FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 28, 2021 (London) – One of the early architects of the European leveraged finance industry and 25-year career veteran of JPMorgan, E. Stanton McLean, is embarking upon a new chapter of his career.
McLean is joining the rising wave of traditional corporate leaders finding new wealth creation opportunities in the burgeoning field of global cannabis.
Building on a distinguished career in global finance, McLean is leaving his current position as managing director at JPMorgan to join Artemis Growth Partners, the leading ESG-focused investment platform dedicated to global cannabis.
McLean will work alongside William Muecke, general partner and co-founder of Artemis Growth Partners and himself a former veteran senior banker at Goldman Sachs & Co., as part of the private equity firm’s senior executive team in London.
McLean will expand the global private equity firm’s leadership group as Advisory Director where he will advise on all forms of capital markets activities including capital raising for investment vehicles and for portfolio companies worldwide, according to a statement.
The new role will build on McLean’s capital markets placement experience and network of funding contacts that spans all levels of capital providers including banks and regulated financial institutions, hedge fund and specialty finance groups, private equity and venture capital firms, non-regulated financial entities, and family offices, among others.
“There are a number of similarities between what is happening in this space and what we saw as we were developing the European leveraged finance market in the early 2000’s,” McLean said in an interview. “Namely, rapid growth, long-term stability, and highly attractive economic rewards for those early market entrants.”
McLean’s leveraged finance career spans 25 years at JPMorgan where he held senior positions in sales and trading and debt capital markets.
McLean began his career in credit origination and structuring, in New York, as part of JPMorgan’s Global Syndicated Finance Team in the mid-1990s and later moved to London in 2003 tasked with expanding JPMorgan’s European Leveraged Finance business, specifically to build out JPMorgan’s new issue distribution platform, taking over as Head of Secondary Loan Sales in 2009, as well.
About Artemis Growth Partners.
Artemis Growth Partners is an alternative asset manager executing Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) and impact investment strategies across its portfolio in the global cannabis industry.
Artemis Growth Partners was founded by a team of professional investors, operators, and advisors who have built and run successful, award-winning domestic and international impact funds. Started in 2015, the mission of Artemis Growth Partners is to bring the principles of ESG and impact investing to the cannabis industry on a global basis.
The leadership team at Artemis Growth Partners are investment professionals who held senior positions at Goldman, Sachs & Co., JPMorgan, and Mesoamerica. The firm’s aim is to create value at every step of the investment process by bringing the principles and practices of world-class governance, strategy, and controls to each portfolio investment.
Artemis Growth Partners oversees US $320+ million in discretionary assets under management (AUM), and invests globally across the cannabis value chain, including branded products, distributors, value-added service providers, ancillary operators, and science-driven research and development platforms.
Artemis manages a portfolio of over 30 leading cannabis companies, including globally recognized US operators such as Columbia Care, Green Thumb Industries, iheartjane.com, Kiva Confections, Leaf Trade, PAX Labs, and The Parent Company, as well as emerging international and European players such as Asia Horizon, Aureum A/S, Clever Leaves, Materia, PhytoPūr Bio, and Prohibition Partners.
The portfolio companies of Artemis Growth Partners operate in the legal domestic and international cannabis markets of North and South America, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, Europe, Israel, and China.
As investors, Artemis Growth Partners relentlessly focus on improving the opportunities and outcomes for owners, employees, communities, vendors, customers, and patients through the lens of regenerative business practices and ESG and impact investing.
Artemis Growth Partners founders’ mission is to build through investment an inclusive, better world for all.
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