Charlie Schliebs is a co-founder and Managing Director of Stone Pier Capital Advisors, a Pittsburgh-based boutique M&A advisory firm and investment bank serving a variety of industries, especially those with long histories in the region or those served by Stone Pier’s principals across their careers. These industries include manufacturing, business services, healthcare/life sciences, construction, and energy, both traditional energy (oil and gas; nuclear) and alternative energy (hydrogen, renewable methane, utility-scale battery storage, solar, wind). First as a lawyer (until retiring from Jones Day as an international M&A and securities partner and Firmwide practice group head), and then as a private equity investor and now investment banker, Charlie has had significant exposure to a broad range of industries and their ups and downs over decades. While at Jones Day Charlie’s work was with Fortune World 50 and Fortune 500 companies; however, his legal experiences prior to Jones Day and his private equity and investment banking work since Jones Day have focused on family-owned or family-controlled companies. It is this long experience with family-dominated businesses that helps both Stone Pier principals deal so effectively, time after time, with its clients, their needs and desires, and their companies in transition.