Our Team

 Senior Managing Director & CEO

(412) 355-2604

keevican@renaissance-partners.com

Since co-founding Renaissance Partners, LLC  in 1986, Senior Managing Director and CEO,  Leo (Lee) A. Keevican, Jr. has steered the investment banking and business services firm with a clear vision: Focusing on the needs of entrepreneurial-minded clients. Mr. Keevican has worked on acquisitions, recapitalizations and sales of a number of manufacturing, distribution and service companies. His experience includes the structuring of complex acquisitions and financings for companies in a wide range of businesses and industries. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called Mr. Keevican a "middle-market merger maker"

Mr. Keevican began his work with private equity sponsors with the sale of a large Pittsburgh-based industrial company to Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts (now KKR). Since that time, Mr. Keevican has had extensive involvement with private equity transactions, including working with over 40 private equity and venture capital groups in their transactions, in the United States, Mexico, Europe, North Africa and South America.

Among his accomplishments, Mr. Keevican represented the private equity purchasers of Rouge Steel from Ford Motor Company. Beginning with the management leveraged buyout of Motor Coils Manufacturing Company in Braddock PA, he orchestrated a series of transactions into the creation of MotivePower, the largest remanufacturer of railroad locomotives in the United States -- ultimately completing a merger with Westinghouse Air Brake Company to form Wabtec.

Most recently, Mr. Keevican has represented the fastest growing bank in the country since its founding in 2007. He represented the bank in its capitalization, its initial public offering, and its acquisition of a large investment management firm.

He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Allegheny County and the West Penn Chapter of the March of Dimes. He currently serves as a Director of the Shadyside Hospital Foundation. Mr. Keevican is also active in major fundraising campaigns for the Hillman Cancer Center and the Little Sisters of the Poor and Catholic Charities.

He is a 1971 honors graduate of Yale University where he majored in economics and was a member of the Yale Ivy League Championship Football team. Mr. Keevican continued his formal training in economics at The Pennsylvania State University. He received a law degree from Boston University Law School in 1975.

 Principal

(412) 355-2605

jbauerle@renaissance-partners.com

Since cofounding Renaissance Partners, LLC in 1986, James F. (Jim) Bauerle has assisted companies throughout America’s heartland.  He is particularly known for his experience in banking and other financial services.  

For Renaissance Partners clients, he has conducted assessments of their business needs and implemented plans to meet those needs.  These have included management buyouts of industrial and commercial businesses, debt and equity restructurings, negotiation or renegotiation of contracts with suppliers or customers, as well as tapping government financing to foster economic development.

He has played a leading role in a number of innovative projects, including the following:

• Chartering and serving as legal counsel for the largest de novo banking company in American history (measured by initial capitalization).
• Triage and turnaround of two national banks following credit and liquidity crises.
• Development and financing corporate headquarters for two Fortune 500 companies.
• Sales or financing of shale gas assets in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania involving real estate, pipeline construction, gas exploration and development, and resolution of disputes over business acquisitions in the natural resources industry
• Pioneering use of letter stock in the insurance business.

Mr. Bauerle has served as a director or executive officer of companies in the banking, insurance and equipment leasing businesses.  His work has been included in case studies at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System. 

In the community, Mr. Bauerle served as board chair for Three Rivers Employment Service, Inc., a nonprofit agency that assisted underemployed and unemployed young persons in their efforts to secure jobs with a future. He also served Calvary Episcopal Church, Western Pennsylvania’s largest Episcopal congregation, in multiple lay leadership roles.

Jim is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College and earned his law degree from Cornell University in 1979.  He is admitted to practice law in the state courts of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia and in U.S. federal court.

Attorney

(412) 355-2624

 mvoges@renaissance-partners.com

Matt Voges is an associate in the corporate practice group. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, he holds a B.A. degree from St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD, and a J.D. degree from Boston University School of Law, where he completed the Transactional Practice concentration.

In his final year at BU Law, he was a Student Advocate with the law school’s Startup Clinic where he assisted BU and MIT students in entity formation and aided them in employment, immigration, intellectual property, corporate, and non-profit matters. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar.

Principal

(412) 355-2632

  jhall@renaissance-partners.com

John L. Hall, CPA, CFE, has more than 40 years experience serving Midwest and Texas Gulf Coast companies in executive and managerial roles.  His experience has equipped him to address financial and operational issues at both macro and micro levels.  As a result, he is able to achieve results that otherwise require layers of manpower and extended time to accomplish.  

His experience and skill as both a certified public accountant and certified fraud examiner help him identify issues others may overlook.  As a result companies can more quickly return to optimal performance levels.  He served significant executive or managerial roles at the following companies:

• New Castle (PA) Rolling Mills, New Castle, PA
• Erie Brewing, Erie, PA
• Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Company
• KMA Manufacturing, Vanport, PA
• Schlumberger, Houston, TX
• Moltrup Steel Products, Beaver, PA

 Hall earned the B.S. degree in accounting at Notre Dame University and the M.B.A. degree at West Virginia University. Principa