Founded in 2006, Boustead Securities is a boutique investment banking firm based in Irvine, California, that advises clients on IPOs, mergers, and acquisitions, capital raises, and restructuring assignments in a wide array of industries. The firm provides an array of corporate finance, third-party research and sales, and trading, to a diversified client base that includes fast-growing companies, financial institutions, and high net worth, clients. On November 2, 2016, Monarch Bay Securities joined forces with Boustead & Co and was rebranded Boustead Securities.