Stephen A. Laws

Stephen Laws joined Raymond James in 2017 and focuses on commercial and residential mortgage REITs as well as other real estate finance companies. Prior to joining Raymond James, Laws spent 12 years in the equity research department at Deutsche Bank as a real estate finance and specialty finance analyst, where his coverage included commercial and residential mortgage REITs, BDCs, and specialty finance companies. Prior to Deutsche Bank, he spent five years as a research analyst at WR Hambrecht covering mortgage REITs and financial technology companies. He also previously served as a research analyst at SunTrust Equitable Securities focusing on financial technology and financial software companies. Laws has a B.A. in economics from Vanderbilt University.