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The DVS Group

Investment Bank
  • 1 Closed Deal via Axial
  • 61 Total Closed Deals
The DVS Group is a boutique mergers and acquisitions firm. We're deal people - who deal with people. We find and combine the right people, the right capital, and the company. Money matters - it's just not the only thing that matters. Our client's definition of success drives our engagement.
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Jan 2024
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Victory Partners, LLC

Investment Bank
  • 1 Closed Deal via Axial
  • 45 Total Closed Deals
Victory Partners is unique, unlike any other financial advisory and private equity firm serving the middle market you will find.  If you walk our halls, you will not find anyone who talks with a locked jaw or wears an ascot.  None of us were sitting on the fortunes of our forefathers when we set out to build a world class firm.  We have earned our reputation the old fashioned way, through hard work, perseverance, and truly understanding the tenets of entrepreneurialism. Everything we have built over the last 10 years has been around celebrating the entrepreneur.  Our great economy…
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Oct 2022
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Corporate Finance Associates - NE

Investment Bank
  • 1 Closed Deal via Axial
  • 11 Total Closed Deals
Welcome to CFA-MidWest, the oldest and largest, mid-market, mergers & acquisition advisory firm in the region. We focus on providing a full range of M&A support services for middle market companies. We are committed to delivering results for our clients.As a business intermediary, CFA represents clients in the sale, merger, purchase, and valuation of closely held businesses. We specialize in manufacturing, distribution, and service companies who have sales of $3 Million to $100 Million located throughout the USA. We have represented clients from California to New York, from Washington state…
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Stout Capital, LLC

Investment Bank
  • 1 Closed Deal via Axial
  • 2 Total Closed Deals
Stout is a global investment bank and advisory firm specializing in corporate finance, valuation, financial disputes, and investigations. We serve a range of clients, from public corporations to privately held companies in numerous industries. Our clients and their advisors rely on our premier expertise, deep industry knowledge, and unparalleled responsiveness on complex matters.Investment BankingOur industry-focused bankers specialize in mergers and acquisitions, private capital raising, and other financial advisory services for privately held businesses, portfolio companies of private…
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Apr 2025
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Jan 2024
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Group M

Investment Bank
  • 1 Closed Deal via Axial
  • 1 Total Closed Deal
Salient Finance is a corporate advisory firm providing consulting services covering business strategy, corporate development, mergers and acquisition, turn arounds, financial structuring and capital procurement services to established small and medium-sized companies based in North America. Our head office is located in Toronto, Ontario.
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Sep 2020
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Brookwood Associates

Investment Bank
  • 149 Total Closed Deals
Senior-Level Execution With more than 150 years of collective experience spanning over $10 billion in transaction volume, Brookwood's managing directors work hands-on with each client to determine and execute the right investment banking solution. Middle-Market Expertise Our exclusive focus on middle-market companies gives us exceptional insight into the strategic, valuation and transaction issues that are unique to this market. This expertise includes robust Market Knowledge and access to buyers on a worldwide basis. Superior Performance Above all, our clients are interested in superior…
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Dec 2017
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Bridgepoint Investment Banking

Investment Bank
  • 147 Total Closed Deals
Bridgepoint Investment Banking is a market-leading boutique investment bank that serves clients over their corporate lifecycles by providing capital raising and M&A advisory solutions. Bridgepoint is a tenacious, creative and results-oriented boutique investment bank focused on impact and value creation for the companies we serve. We provide confidential, independent and unconflicted solutions and strategic advice. We have an unequivocal focus on our clients and their prosperity. We measure our performance by the long-term success of our clients.Together, Bridgepoint principals have more than…
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Sep 2025
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Hyde Park Capital Advisors, LLC

Investment Bank
  • 146 Total Closed Deals
Hyde Park Capital is one of the most active boutique investment banking firms in the United States, advising middle-market public and private companies across a wide range of industries. For more than 25 years, we have delivered trusted advisory services in mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, infrastructure and project finance, fairness opinions, and strategic financial advisory engagements.Our senior bankers bring decades of experience advising founder and family-owned businesses as well as private equity backed and publicly traded companies. We are widely recognized for our expertise…
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Jan 2026
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PCE Investment Bankers

Investment Bank
  • 107 Total Closed Deals
PCE is a leading investment bank that delivers M&A, ESOP, valuation, and advisory services to middle-market business owners across the U.S. With decades of experience, sector depth, and a people-first mindset, we help entrepreneurs and their advisors navigate complex transitions with clarity and confidence.From growth planning to exit strategy, we’re more than dealmakers — we’re long-term partners committed to maximizing value and preserving legacy. Headquartered in Orlando, with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, and New Jersey, our national footprint ensures local insight and…
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Dec 2025
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GulfStar Group

Investment Bank
  • 73 Total Closed Deals
GulfStar is one of the leading middle market investment banking firms in the United States. We help business owners succeed by offering a level of negotiation experience, strategic and valuation insights and transaction guidance you simply won’t find elsewhere or doing it yourself. How? We recruit top talent and foster a culture that is personally invested in the results we help our clients achieve. Our services include mergers and acquisitions, private placements, and financial advisory services. To date, GulfStar has completed more than 700 transactions involving buyers and sellers from…
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Apr 2016
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Mar 2016
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Dec 2015
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Dec 2015
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The DAK Group

Investment Bank
  • 73 Total Closed Deals
The DAK Group. is an established middle market investment bank providing advisory and execution of exit strategies, divestitures, mergers, acquisitions, financing and restructuring solutions. Committed to optimizing value for the business owner and stakeholders, The DAK Group applies a hallmark approach characterized by a deep understanding of the strategic value of a business. Since its founding in 1984, The DAK Group has successfully closed hundreds of transactions involving public and privately-held corporations, cross-border transactions, family businesses and financial sponsors. T
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Sep 2025
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Forbes Partners

Investment Bank
  • 72 Total Closed Deals
Forbes Partners, founded in 2004, with offices in Denver, CO, Salt Lake City, UT, and Charlotte, NC, is an award-winning investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, raising capital, and financial restructuring within the middle market. Senior advisors at Forbes Partners have 300+ years and $85+ billion of combined transaction experience across a wide variety of industries and around the globe. Our team works with a select few clients each year to tell their unique stories, advocate fiercely on their behalf, and drive maximum value for their company. Our experienced bankers…
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Oct 2024
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Nov 2023
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Oct 2023
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Oct 2023
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MelCap Partners

Investment Bank
  • 62 Total Closed Deals
MelCap Partners, LLC is an independent, private investment-banking firm providing financial advisory services to middle market companies, including sell-side and buy-side advisory services, the private placement of debt & equity capital, and general advisory services. MelCap focuses on middle market transactions between $10 million and $250 million. Please see our website for additional information (www.melcap.com).
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Feb 2025
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VRA Partners, LLC

Investment Bank
  • 51 Total Closed Deals
VRA Partners is an independent investment banking firm that focuses on providing merger and acquisition advisory services to leading middle-market companies and private equity groups located throughout the U.S. VRA Partners also assists companies with raising capital for growth, acquisitions, recapitalization, going-private and management buy-out transactions, as well as provides fairness opinions, valuations and strategic advisory services. The professionals of VRA Partners have completed more than 550 transactions with aggregate transaction value in excess of $40 billion across a broad…
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Aug 2023
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Sep 2022
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Dresner Partners

Investment Bank
  • 50 Total Closed Deals
Dresner Partners is a middle market investment bank specializing in mergers & acquisition advisory, financial restructuring and corporate turnarounds, institutional private placements of debt and equity, valuation and strategic consulting. Our clients are middle market companies operating both in the U.S. and internationally. We are deeply committed to exceeding client expectations and maintaining the highest levels of integrity. Our experienced professionals have the foresight necessary to navigate through highly complicated transactions to maximize value for our clients. The Firm's…
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May 2023
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Mar 2015
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Jul 2014
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Mar 2014
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Tully & Holland, Inc.

Investment Bank
  • 47 Total Closed Deals
Tully & Holland is a boutique investment banking firm founded in 1992 that provides financial advisory services to the consumer sector. Tully & Holland consistently ranks among the nation's most active investment banks in the Food & Beverage, Direct Marketing and Retail sectors. The firm offers merger and acquisition advisory, management buyouts, private placements and valuation services. The firm focuses on the middle market and typically handles transactions between $10 million and $200 million.
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Jul 2024
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Mar 2021
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Cassel Salpeter & Co.

Investment Bank
  • 47 Total Closed Deals
Cassel Salpeter & Co. LLC is an independent investment banking firm that provides advice to middle market and emerging growth companies in the U.S. and worldwide. Together, the firm’s professionals have more than 100 years of experience providing private and public companies with a broad spectrum of investment banking and financial advisory services, including: mergers and acquisitions; equity and debt capital raises; fairness and solvency opinions; valuations; and restructurings, such as 363 sales and plans of reorganization. Cofounded by James Cassel and Scott Salpeter, the firm provides…
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May 2024
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The McLean Group, LLC

Investment Bank
  • 44 Total Closed Deals
The McLean Group is an investment bank providing mergers and acquisitions (M&A), capital formation, market intelligence, business valuation, litigation support and exit planning services to middle market businesses. Headquartered in Washington, DC's technology, communications and government contracting corridor, we are among the largest independent middle market investment banks in the nation. The McLean Group has a presence in more than 30 cities in the US and Canada, serving domestic and international clients with a broad resume of successfully consummated financial transactions. Our…
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Jun 2019
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XLCS Partners

Investment Bank
  • 42 Total Closed Deals
XLCS Partners, Inc. is an independent investment banking firm that provides M&A advisory, capital raising and debt advisory for select clients globally. Middle market companies and private equity funds rely on our creative solutions, thoughtful insight and truthful advice when considering exiting their companies, making strategic acquisitions, partnering with private equity sponsors and raising debt or equity capital.and raising debt or equity capital..
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Apr 2017
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Dec 2016
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Nov 2016
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Nov 2016
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ROTH Capital Partners, LLC

Investment Bank
  • 40 Total Closed Deals
ROTH is an investment banking firm dedicated to the small-cap public market. Since its inception in 1984, ROTH has been an innovator in this market. Headquartered in Newport Beach, CA, ROTH has regional offices in San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle and New York as well as Hong Kong Limited international office. ROTH is a privately owned firm that has built a culture of success and innovation. Our approach is driven by our current principals, who are not only the owners of the business but most of whom have been with us for more than 10 years. Our goal has always been to service the needs of…
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Oct 2017
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