Patrick Trysla

Patrick J. Trysla is CEO/Managing Director of Frontier Investment Banking, a boutique investment banking firm based in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Frontier describes itself as focused on merger-and-acquisition, corporate finance, and other advisory services for middle-market companies and their owners.

Frontier’s senior-executive biography says Trysla has spent more than 34 years advising private and public clients on merger-and-acquisition and corporate finance transactions. Before forming Frontier Investment Banking, he was a principal at a regional investment banking firm, where he led the Manufacturing, Distribution and Business Services practice group.

Before moving into investment banking, Trysla practiced corporate law with a focus on mergers, acquisitions, sales/divestitures, and corporate finance. Frontier says he worked at a long-established regional firm, an international Am Law-scale firm, and a national firm where he chaired the Kansas City corporate practice group and served on the firm’s management committee.

Trysla holds both a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska, both with highest distinction. Separate legal-profile sources show he was admitted in Missouri in 1988 and Kansas in 1989.

• Foundersuite lists Trysla as an angel / high-net-worth investor with a Seed Round stage focus and Finance industry focus.
• His public professional focus is much more visible as an M&A and corporate-finance advisor than as a conventional venture investor; publicly verifiable activity centers on sales, recapitalizations, growth capital, acquisition financing, and strategic advisory engagements.
• Frontier says it works across “all types of purposes,” including growth capital, M&A, consolidations, leveraged and management buyouts, roll-ups, refinancings, stockholder monetization, and liquidity initiatives.
• Frontier’s capital-markets approach spans equity, convertible debt, mezzanine/subordinated debt, senior debt, asset-based lending, revolving credit, structured financing, and equipment leasing/financing.
• In evaluating opportunities, Frontier emphasizes understanding the client’s business, industry position, value drivers, strategic objectives, buyer/investor universe, and transaction structure.
• Frontier’s stated client philosophy: “we succeed when our clients succeed.”