Our Team

With over 20 seasoned investment banking
professionals, Milestone has the bench
strength to devote senior level attention
to the assignment at hand.

Milestone Team Bio


Weil, Eugene S.

Weil, Eugene S.
Chief Executive Officer
Investment Banking, Restructuring Services

Washington, D.C.
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Eugene S. Weil is a co-founder of Milestone, sits on its Board of Directors and is a member of Blackstreet Capital Management’s Investment Committee. Prior to founding Milestone Merchant Partners, Mr. Weil was a Managing Director of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Company, Inc. (“FBR”). At FBR, Mr. Weil had significant responsibility for the firm’s day-to-day financial services practice. In addition, Mr. Weil had primary responsibility for building and supervising the group’s M&A and e-Finance investment banking practices, completing approximately 50 transactions during his tenure with the firm. While at FBR, Mr. Weil led several financial institution buyout deals under a streamlined transaction/financing structure that was pioneered by his team. He was previously Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Hovde Financial, Inc., a financial services M&A boutique and private hedge fund manager. Mr. Weil began his career as a corporate attorney at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Juris Doctor from The Washington University School of Law.