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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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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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Headwaters MB Healthcare

Investment Bank
  • 141 Total Closed Deals
The HeadwatersMB Healthcare & Life Sciences leadership team is comprised of industry veterans with over 100 years of collective experience. Our middle market clients receive bulge bracket level service, expert advice and 24/7 access to our senior bankers. We bring deep industry knowledge and transactional skills to our client base. Our services include company sales, recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, debt & equity financing, and buy-side acquisition advisory. The industry segments in which we have closed transactions include: Providers and Services, Managed Care, Healthcare IT, Medical…
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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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NewCap Partners Inc.

Investment Bank
  • 88 Total Closed Deals
NewCap Partners is a 30 year old investment bank serving the lower middle market. We work with business owners, boards, shareholders and management teams to develop and execute on financial transactions and implement strategies to maximize shareholder value. Our senior investment bankers have experience dealing with both public and private companies in a variety of industries. The industry expertise of our bankers is complemented by independent industry consultants who provide us with contacts and insights into a variety of industries.Over the last 30 years, we have completed a variety of…
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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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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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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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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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Paragon Ventures LLC

Investment Bank
  • 58 Total Closed Deals
Paragon Ventures is one of the nation’s leading specialists in the merger, acquisition, and divestiture of private mid-market companies. As an intermediary with experience and expertise, we can facilitate the entire process of buying or selling a business. We specialize in the healthcare and life sciences industries including all sectors of pharmacy distribution, home healthcare, respiratory care, infusion therapies, sleep therapy, nursing services, behavioral health, hospice, medical supply, medical device and related medical technologies.
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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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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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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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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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The Dillard Anderson Group

Investment Bank
  • 43 Total Closed Deals
The Dillard Anderson Group specializes in providing acquisitions and exit strategies for the owners of mid-market oil and gas service, manufacturing and business services companies. Our sole objective is to assist the owner in realizing the maximum value that the market will pay for their business. Working as an agent for the owner, we analyze all aspects of each individual business including market, financial position, competition and personnel. Through our well established professional network - established over the past thirty years - qualified candidates are identified. The client company…
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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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FourBridges Capital Advisors

Investment Bank
  • 40 Total Closed Deals
FourBridges Capital is an investment banking firm that serves business owners across the Southeast. We act as the interface between our clients and the capital markets, helping them to identify potential investors or acquisition targets and successfully complete transactions. Our senior professionals draw on both expertise in investment banking and experience as C-level executives, and they have spent most of their careers serving the middle market. For information regarding our past deals, please visit: fourbridgescapital.com/transactions
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HighBank Advisors

Investment Bank
  • 39 Total Closed Deals
HighBank was formed in 2009 by its founding partner Stephen Gaines. HighBank is a mid market investment bank and financial advisory firm headquartered in Denton, Maryland. HighBank provides a wide range of m&a, capital raising and restructuring consulting services to meet the needs of our clients. We provide thorough, objective and conflict-free advice and innovative ideas and solutions to both middle and emerging market companies. Our firm was formed on a mission that our clients deserve to have their highest expectations met and to receive higher value for their investments of money and…
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Cypress Associates LLC

Investment Bank
  • 39 Total Closed Deals
Cypress Associates LLC is a nationally-recognized investment banking firm established in 2001. The firm provides companies and institutional investors with advisory services in mergers and acquisitions, fairness opinions and valuations, private placements of debt and equity, restructuring and reorganization and litigation consulting. Cypress operates internationally from its offices in New York, San Francisco, Austin & Washington D.C.
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Sterling Point Advisors

Investment Bank
  • 37 Total Closed Deals
Sterling Point Advisors is a boutique mergers and acquisitions advisory firm serving family-owned and privately-held businesses. We help business owners navigate the strategic challenges of growing or exiting their businesses. 
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