Banker, lawyer reach for the sky with new venture

A boutique investment firm has facilitated nearly $1.5 billion in deals in barely two years. What’s its secret?

By Brian Hartz
| 6:00 a.m. June 15, 2018
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Marty Traber is the chairman of Tampa-based Skyway Capital Markets. Courtesy photo.

Finance

A banker and a lawyer walk into a bar … stop us if you’ve heard this one before … and launch a boutique investment banking firm.

That’s not exactly how Skyway Capital Markets was formed — but it's close. (The firm technically dates back to 2002, when securities attorney Marty Traber founded it, initially to work with two clients.) After being dormant for more than a decade, Traber and investment banker Roger Overby rekindled Skyway in early 2017.