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Hunter Wise Financial Group

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Founded
  
1999

Hunter Wise Financial Group, and its previously wholly owned broker-dealer Hunter Wise Securities, LLC −− once a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) member firm, offered investment banking and financial advisory services. The company serviced all industries from its final seven U.S. locations and one office in Canada. The company was based in Irvine, California.

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History

Teresa Hinojos was the CEO and president of Hunter Wise Financial Group, LLC and Hunter Wise Securities, LLC . She succeeded Fred Jager. The firm had advised on recapitalizations, equity investments, and acquisitions.

Opening of New York office

In 2010, Hunter Wise opened an office in New York City, headed by Francis Vincent Lorenzo (a/k/a "Frank Lorenzo"). Lorenzo began his criminal career by committing larceny at age 17 and getting caught. Lorenzo spent his entire career with numerous pennystock firms which are no longer in business and had run-ins with the S.E.C. in 1990, 2011, 2013 and was finally barred from the securities industry for life in 2015 because of frauds that the S.E.C. concluded his committed.

Prosecution of Hunter Wise by U.S. government

In 2012, a former Hunter Wise affiliate, Hunter Wise Commodities of Las Vegas, NV, sought a declaratory judgment against the United States Commodities Futures Trading Commission. The CFTC alleged in a civil claim that several commodities brokers, including Hunter Wise Commodities, had marketed off-exchange, retail commodities contracts.

Awards and recognition

Hunter Wise Financial Group was nominated at the 10th Annual M&A Awards for Lower Middle-Market Deal of the Year, Cross-Border Deal of the Year, and Industrial Goods and Basic Resources categories for its work with Farm Lands of Guinea.

References

Hunter Wise Financial Group Wikipedia