About Us

We are a private investment and merchant bank specializing in mergers and acquisitions, private placements and corporate financial advisory services for private and public middle market companies. Founded in 1999, our mission is to provide the highest quality investment banking services and to bring a level of expertise, sophistication and professionalism to the middle market that has traditionally been available only to much larger companies.

We have extensive transactional experience
Our clients tend to be companies with $5 to $250 million of revenue in several industries, including Healthcare, Technology, Consumer and Business Products and Services, and Industrial/Manufacturing. We have assisted owners of privately-held companies in the sale or recapitalization of their businesses, we have assisted entrepreneurs and growth companies in raising capital, and we have worked with established private and public companies and their Boards in shareholder matters, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.

We get deals done
Our clients benefit from the hands-on attention of our senior professionals who have extensive investment banking and operating track records. Our professionals have successfully closed numerous and often complicated, "tough" transactions in multiple industries and across a broad range of transactional situations. With more than 100 collective years of experience, and hundreds of executed middle market transactions totaling more than $4 billion in value, our principals have earned a reputation of "getting deals done."

We focus on middle market companies
Having spent most of our careers focusing on the middle market, we have found that middle market companies face issues and challenges different from those of large companies. In addition to good judgment and polished technical skills, successful execution of middle market transactions requires specific experience in the middle market, hands-on involvement and meticulous attention to detail by experienced bankers in all transactional aspects, and great tenacity.

We have handled a wide spectrum of transactional situations
Whether it is raising critical private capital to fuel future growth, monetizing asset value or enhancing shareholder value through strategic business combinations, we understand the issues and how to address each client's unique needs. We help our clients conceptualize, define and execute sophisticated and tailored strategies to realize their objectives. Our clients look to us as important trusted advisors not only for the structuring and execution of complex transactions and shareholder matters, but also for advice on other strategic matters.

We are independent, objective advisors
In addition, in this era of heightened regulatory and shareholder scrutiny, advisor independence has become a highly desired characteristic, if not a necessity. Many investment banking firms, particularly those owned by large financial institutions, often have multiple and potentially conflicting relationships with a company, such as equity research, capital markets or traditional banking relationships. We are an independent, private advisor offering objective advice. We are aligned perfectly with our clients and approach each assignment as though we are the client. Independence, integrity of purpose, and objectivity are characteristics that many private and public companies and their Boards increasingly find crucial.