Hoyt Stastney

Hoyt Stastney joined DeVoe & Company as Managing Director and General Counsel in 2025.  He brings 30 years of experience in the wealth management industry with a strong track record of building RIAs through strategic M&A and counseling founders and executives on proper risk management.
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Most recently, Hoyt served as General Counsel and Head of M&A at Wealthspire Advisors and its predecessor firms.  Over his nearly 10 years at Wealthspire, Hoyt established and executed on the firm’s M&A strategy, growing the firm from approximately $1B in AUM to over $30B in AUM during his tenure, while at the same time overseeing the legal and compliance functions.  During his time at Wealthspire, Hoyt was part of an executive team which shepherded the firm through numerous ownership structures, including family and employee ownership, private equity ownership, insurance brokerage ownership, and ultimately public company ownership.  Hoyt helped engineer numerous multi-billion AUM transactions, both as seller and buyer, including numerous like-size mergers.
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Prior to joining Wealthspire, Hoyt was a partner at the national law firm of Quarles & Brady, an AmLaw 200 firm with over 500 attorneys.  Over his 20 years at Quarles, Hoyt specialized in securities/corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and chaired the firm’s investment management practice group, advising RIAs, broker-dealers, hedge funds, family offices and private equity firms across the nation.  Hoyt has extensive experience counseling founders, executives and boards of directors at public and private companies regarding complex business relationships, corporate governance matters, securities offerings, compliance issues, mergers and acquisitions, and international business relationships.  He has counseled numerous clients through the IPO process.
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Hoyt received a BS in Political Science, History and Latin from the University of North Dakota and a JD from the University of Minnesota.