Our story

We’ve built a platform that combines global investment banking and advisory, a full-service brokerage and a range of wealth management services.

With a global footprint, strategic connections in local markets and specialized emerging markets expertise, Dinosaur Financial Group is known for its deal-making acumen.

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Across our capabilities, we partner with institutional and corporate clients of all sizes, independent advisors and highly affluent individuals to identify and focus on their investment objectives. Our team has seven decades of experience, which we’ve used to build a platform that combines global investment banking and advisory, a full-service institutional brokerage and responsive investment advisor services.

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This is a unique mix of capabilities and expertise, and it allows us to optimize straightforward requests, while also solving for those that are complex. Working with clients and our network of colleagues around the world—with elbow grease and camaraderie—is how we do our best work. Dinosaur’s open-minded approach inspires deal-making creativity and is the key to our success in familiar and frontier markets. We start from yes. Our commitment to every client is to find a way forward.

History

Dinosaur is a full-service, independent, international investment bank.

Founded in 2001, Dinosaur Group Holdings LLC, based in New York, NY is the parent company of FINRA-regulated institutional brokerage firm Dinosaur Financial Group, LLC, FCA-regulated Dinosaur Merchant Bank Limited, and SEC-registered investment firm DCM Advisors, LLC. The organization and its affiliates provide global brokerage, financing and advisory expertise/insights for equities, fixed income, commodities, and derivatives, as well as investment management.

2001

Dinosaur Group Holdings creates DCM Advisors, LLC

‍DCM begins as an RIA, initially focused on just Private Wealth Management

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2003

Dinosaur Merchant Bank Limited is formed

‍DMBL is incorporated in the UK

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2017

Dinosaur Group Holdings acquires investment teams from Lebenthal Asset Management

‍Acquired teams include Heckman Global Advisors Quantitative Global Equities, Lebenthal Municipal Income, and Lisanti Capital Growth (which becomes a separate, affiliated sister-firm to DCM)

Read about the acquisition 

Learn about DCM's sister-firm, Lisanti Capital 

2019

Dinosaur Group Holdings appoints Marc Rappaport as CEO of DCM Advisors

‍He is charged with stewarding the growth and direction of the asset management business.

Learn about the appointment 

2021

Markston International
Investment Team joins DCM

‍DCM adds Fundamental Strategies for U.S. Large Cap Value, Large Cap Core, and All Cap to its list of investment capabilities

Read about the acquisition 

2023

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Today: Dinosaur is a full-service, independent, international investment bank.

We have offices in London, Miami, and New York. We focus our activity on Africa, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East.

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Our aim is to bring together the ethos of investment banks with leading-edge technology, international networks and personal relationships. By combining these elements, we have created an innovative, constantly-evolving environment which is focused on solving our clients’ financial challenges. Fully regulated by the FCA, the SEC and FINRA, we offer creative, innovative solutions, tailored to your requirements, no matter what size you are or where you are based.

Locations

Global Offices

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🇺🇸 New York

33 Whitehall St, #1102
New York, NY 10004
212.448.9944 tel

🇺🇸 Miami

848 Brickell Avenue PH
Miami, FL 33131
305.982.8533 tel

🇬🇧 London

68 Upper Thames Street
London, England EC4V 3BJ
+44.207.496.1780 tel

🇪🇸 Madrid

🇮🇹 Milan

Clients

Supporting High Net Worth Individuals

Dinosaur is committed to providing an unparalleled service to our private clients. Our reach enables us to service high-net-worth individuals around the globe and allows us to find opportunities that are not generally available to private investors. Our private wealth managers know that providing an outstanding service requires strong working relationships which are built on trust, and based on understand and meeting every client’s needs

Satisfying financing needs for both public and private organizations

Whether executing sensitive transactions or giving access to capital markets, we focus on providing an exceptional level of support to our corporate clients, serving them diligently both in quiet and volatile markets.We work closely with corporate clients around the world, supporting them with both vanilla and complex domestic and cross-border transactions.Our Investment Banking Group offers access to a range of services from mergers and acquisitions advisory to providing due diligence and opinions for corporate clients.

Servicing institutional investors

As large banks are de-risking they require that FFIs provide bigger balance sheets, greater compensating balances and much bigger minimum fees, while providing fewer (or lower level of) services.
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Dinosaur can help with this: as a merchant bank we can provide many of the services previously provided by the top-tier banks, from letters of credit to payments.

Dinosaur provides the most comprehensive and cost-effective access to the US and EU markets to FFIs. We have outstanding coverage and support in these markets. In the US our service is supplied in accordance with US SEC rule 15a6.

Supporting High Net Worth Individuals

Dinosaur is committed to providing an unparalleled service to our private clients. Our reach enables us to service high-net-worth individuals around the globe and allows us to find opportunities that are not generally available to private investors.Our private wealth managers know that providing an outstanding service requires strong working relationships which are built on trust, and based on understand and meeting every client’s needs

Individuals & Families

Capabilities

Our Core Services Include

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Primer Brokerage & Institutional Investment Services

Investment Banking & Trade Finance

Asset Management & Wealth Advisory

Sales & Trading

We are not a monolithic investment bank.

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We encourage our people to bring their ideas forward and develop them within our close-knit team. The expertise, experience and diversity of our professionals means that we can quickly assess whether ideas are viable and can bring genuine value to our clients.
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We also keep a steady focus on how technology is evolving, not indulging in the next big thing, but making sure that we offer a range of secure, robust tools and services that suit clients of all sizes, whether they are based in the capital cities or further afield.

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We are agile, innovative and have a global reach and a strong commitment to the success of our clients and employees. We believe that this makes Dinosaur a great place to do business and a great place to work.

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Leadership

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Leonardo Kestleman

Managing Director, Emerging Markets

Rob Feeney

Senior Vice President, Institutional Trading

Elliot Grossman

Managing Director

Venisha Firth

CFA/CAO and Comptroller

Javier Perez-Santalla

Managing Director, Fixed Income

Glenn Grossman

CEO and Founder

Leonardo Kestleman

Managing Director, Emerging Markets

Leo Kestleman joined Dinosaur in 2001 as Managing Director of Emerging Market Fixed Income Sales and Trading. Prior to this, Leo was founder and CEO of SGGK DTVM with offices in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—a major provider of liquidity in the Brazilian inter-dealer fixed income market. His tenure spanned from 1990 through 2000. Leo is a wine enthusiast and is fluent in multiple languages.

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Rob Feeney

Senior Vice President, Institutional Trading

Bob Feeney manages Dinosaur’s institutional trading activities in the New York headquarters. A 40-year veteran of the U.S. Treasury market, he is an expert in the interdealer market for U.S. Treasury bonds. Bob spent 30 years of his career with Cantor Fitzgerald. In addition to his deep experience in the financial world, Bob has been a basketball coach at the high school and college levels.

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Elliot Grossman

Managing Director

Elliot is committed to building and continually improving Dinosaur Group’s global equity trading capabilities. Throughout his career, he has researched and adopted the high-end institutional platforms that have enabled Dinosaur to successfully manage deals and transactions around the world. As a close advisor to the CEO and founder, he works with the management team to position Dinosaur Group for the future.

Elliot earned a BA in history from Kenyon College in 2005. He holds series 4, 7, 24, 55, 63 and 99 licenses. He is an avid cook, and a theater and film enthusiast.

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Venisha Firth

CFA/CAO and Comptroller

Venisha Frith graduated from City College of New York (magna cum laude) and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Venisha obtained her MBA while working at Dinosaur where she has spent her entire professional career. Venisha is a highly respected member of the executive management team of the company and has been instrumental in building its financial infrastructure. As the Financial and Operations Principal, she oversees all financial and administrative functions.

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Javier Perez-Santalla

Managing Director, Fixed Income

Javier began his career in Foreign Exchange with Exco/Noonan Astley Pearce in 1982. Soon after, he joined Nippon Credit Bank and rose to become their chief currency trader. Glenn and Javier first met at Cantor Fitzgerald in 1992 where Javier was Managing Director in charge of all Foreign Exchange. Glenn and Javier worked very closely during those years and helped grow Cantor to become a global forex powerhouse. Before joining Dinosaur, Javier worked as a Managing Director at Refco where he was also involved in forex, specializing in Latin American markets. Javier has been with Dinosaur since 2003 and has been instrumental in growing our institutional trading capabilities. Javier and his family are very involved in their community and church activities.

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Glenn Grossman

CEO and Founder

Formerly a Director and Chief Financial Officer of Tullett & Riley, Glenn has spent 30 years running the operations of Wall Street firms. After nearly two decades with Tullett and its successors, he joined Cantor Fitzgerald in 1991 as a Senior Managing Director and an Executive Vice President, heading international operations, which included all of Europe, South America, Africa and Asia. Sensing an opportunity for a new kind of investment bank, he formed Dinosaur Securities in 2001.

He graduated from Union College (magna cum laude) and from Columbia University '74 (MBA).

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