Seaport Global Securities Expands Mining and Metals Practice

Kurt Oehlberg Joins Firm as Managing Director, Chad Jennings as Vice
President;

Both Executives to Initially Concentrate on Coal
Sector

NEW YORK & NEW ORLEANS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#IB–Seaport Global Securities LLC today announced that Kurt Oehlberg has
joined its investment banking department as Managing Director, Mining
and Metals, and Chad Jennings has signed on as Vice President, Mining
and Metals.

Both executives will initially concentrate on the coal sector and
opportunistically expand into other mining and metals sectors. Their
appointments follow the addition last year of coal sector research
analyst Mark Levin, who joined Seaport Global from BB&T.

“Kurt and Chad both bring to Seaport Global more than 40 years of
relevant, combined investment banking and industry experience in the
broad natural resource sector,โ€ said Co-CEO Daniel O. Conwill IV. “Their
deep transaction experience, knowledge of, and concentration on, the
coal segment will add a timely, important expertise for our growing
client roster.โ€

Oehlbergโ€™s career prior to joining Seaport Global includes more than
thirty years of experience with firms including Rothschild, Inc., Chase
Securities, and FBR Capital Markets. He has advised on more than 50
separate coal and mining M&A transactions.

Jennings brings to Seaport Global more than a decade of investment
banking and corporate business development experience related to energy
and natural resources. He has held positions with Contura Energy, Alpha
Natural Resources, and FBR Capital Markets.

About Seaport Global Securities

Seaport Global Securities LLC (www.seaportglobal.com)
offers a full range of investment banking, capital markets, financial
advisory, sales, trading and research services.

Co-headquartered in New York and New Orleans with offices across the US
and in Europe, Seaport Global pairs its extensive knowledge and
relationships in the energy, industrials, mining and metals, chemicals
and shipping industries, with a large platform of equity and fixed
income sales, trading and research. The firmโ€™s forward-thinking
practitioners, backed by decades of experience, focus on meeting
clientsโ€™ goals in all business and economic cycles.

Contacts

Seaport Global Holdings LLC
Lisa Weiss, 212-601-9071
Director
of Human Resources
[email protected]