Denna
McGhee provides financial advisory services to community financial
institutions. With more than 30 years of experience, Ms. McGhee has performed
over 1,600 bank stock appraisals for purposes of merger and acquisition
transactions, employee stock ownership plans, strategic planning, dissenters'
rights proceedings, and gift and estate taxes.
Additionally, Ms. McGhee has provided analysis for over 150 bank mergers
and acquisitions and fairness opinions, and over 20 capital offerings which
raised over $1 billion for community banks.
Prior to
joining Hillworth Bank Partners, Ms. McGhee was a director of Stifel, Nicolaus
& Company, Incorporated. Ms. McGhee served
as Vice President of Vining Sparks Community Bank Advisory Group from 2011 to
2022 and served as Vice President of Howe Barnes Hoefer & Arnett, Inc. Investment
Banking from 1994 to 2011. Previously,
Ms. McGhee was Assistant Vice President at Alex Sheshunoff & Co. Investment
Banking from 1989 to 1994 and an analyst from 1986 to 1989. She is a graduate
of the University of Texas where she received her Bachelor of Business
Administration in Finance. Ms. McGhee is
a Registered Representative and holds Series 63 and Series 7 licenses. She was a member of American Society of
Appraisers from 1999 to 2006 and successfully completed Principles of Valuation
Courses for Business Valuation 201 and 202 classes from the American Society of
Appraisers. In 2020, Ms. McGhee completed Business Valuation Training by
Consultants Training Institute, co-sponsored by National Association of
Certified Valuators and Analysts and passed the certification exam to be
designated as a Certified Valuation Analyst. Over the last 30 years, Ms. McGhee
has written articles for industry publications and has attended more than 70
presentations and seminars given by other industry professionals about bank
valuation, bank mergers and acquisitions, bank performance and bank regulation
sponsored by trade groups such as the Independent Community Bankers of America,
American Bankers Association, Acquire or Be Acquired Conference by Bank
Director and Subchapter S Bank Association.