Top Industrials Investment Banks

Strategic Finance, Inc.

1 Closed Deal via Axial 17 Total Closed Deals

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Strategic Finance advises middle market companies in their growth and exit plans.​We offer private placement of debt and equity, negotiate mergers and acquisitions for company owners and find target acquisitions for private equity clients in a wide range of industries. We also offer the attention and focus of a boutique firm, with experienced professionals handling every transaction.​We have an established track record, sophisticated skills sets and industry operating experience that enable us to provide creative solutions and innovative strategies to meet your financial goals. Over 30…

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• Jan 2021 Advised Acuity Institute in its sale to Mindedge
• Apr 2019 Assisted Undisclosed in securing debt financing from Sterling Commercial Credit
• Apr 2018 Advised PaRaBaL in its sale to ISEC7
• Jan 2014 Advised Magic Valley Fresh Frozen in its sale to Speyside Equity

RLS Associates

1 Closed Deal via Axial 13 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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RLS Associates is a middle market private investment banking firm specializing in Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures and Strategic Management Consulting services to middle market companies with sales of $1M to $100M. RLS serves a wide variety of industries, including manufacturing, distribution, service and technology. The common theme to most assignments is that at least one of the parties to each transaction will be closely-held business.

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• Oct 2025 Advised L&R Installation, Inc. in its sale to The Symmetrical Group
• Jun 2025 Advised Rhoads & O’Hara Architectural Products, LLC in its sale to Richelieu America Ltd.
• Aug 2023 Advised Turf Management in its sale to Holganix
• Jul 2022 Advised Strinos in its sale to Quadshift

Now Capital Partners

1 Closed Deal via Axial 11 Total Closed Deals

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Now Capital Partners is a full-service investment bank specializing in capital raise, M&A, and long-term capital planning. The Now Capital team consists of experienced and knowledgeable finance professionals who have an extensive track record of success in lower- and middle-market capital raise and M&A transactions.

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• Jul 2026 Advised S&W Foundation in its sale to NorthEnd Associates
• Dec 2025 Advised Bair Medical Spa in its sale to Alpha Aesthetics
• Nov 2025 Advised Enchanted Medical Transport in its sale to Medstar Transportation
• Oct 2025 Advised DJ trailers in its sale to Endurance Holdings

NorthView Advisors LLC

1 Closed Deal via Axial 10 Total Closed Deals

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Founded in 2010, NorthView Advisors LLC is a boutique, independent investment banking firm with offices throughout the US. We specialize in providing capital raising, M&A, and strategic advisory services to lower- middle-market businesses and private equity firms nationwide.Our DNA consists of senior professionals with diversified skill sets and extensive transactional experiences that consistently deliver superior results for our clients––clients we consider Partners.Together we handle career and company-defining transactions from start to finish while you continue to focus on running…

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• Feb 2026 Advised Industrial Composites Manufacturer in its sale to Mearthane Products Corporation
• Oct 2025 Advised Crescent Constructors in its sale to Zachry Construction
• Jan 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Nov 2024 Advised Robbins LLC in its sale to Confidential Company

Vesticor Advisors

1 Closed Deal via Axial 8 Total Closed Deals

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Vesticor Advisors was founded on the principle that owner-operated companies in the lower middle market are unique and require specialized attention and advice when considering strategic investment and exit opportunities. Vesticor Advisors provides M&A and capital raising advisory services exclusively to founder and owner-operated companies. We support clients with the expertise needed to build their business through growth acquisitions, optimize value in an exit or sale, transition ownership to family or management, divest non-core assets, or raise capital. After founding, building and…

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• Jun 2026 Advised Price Circuits / Circuitronics in its sale to Confidential Company
• Jul 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Private Buyer
• Jan 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Oct 2024 Advised Core Mechanical INC in its sale to Amalgam Capital

Global Capital Markets Incorporated

1 Closed Deal via Axial 7 Total Closed Deals

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At Global Capital Markets we specialize in middle market transactions. We take a no-nonsense approach to achieving results in virtually all situations. This approach has made us a leading West Coast financial services provider. For over fifteen years, our team has offered companies a unique blend of sophisticated financial expertise and access to the global marketplace of buyers, sellers and financiers. In order to serve our clients to the fullest extent we generally focus our services on manufacturing, distribution, service and retail companies with revenues between $10 million and $200…

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• Aug 2023 Advised Aremac Associates, Inc. in its sale to TESSEC
• Aug 2023 Advised L Tech Network Services, Inc. in its sale to JK Holdings, LLC
• Oct 2022 Advised Weber Plywood & Lumber Co. in its sale to Sierra Forest Products
• Sep 2021 Advised Endural LLC in its sale to Salt Creek Capital

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CEA Group

1 Closed Deal via Axial 7 Total Closed Deals

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Founded in 1973, CEA has developed a reputation for consistently exceeding client expectations with a very high level of integrity and professionalism. CEA has advised on over 900 transactions in approximately 60 countries. Our clients rely on us as their trusted advisor and we take that responsibility very seriously. Every business is a derivative of something, and when you’ve been around as long as CEA, you’ve had experience in many different circumstances. In considering Business Development, Financial Advisory Services, Investment Banking or Strategic Advisory Services, CEA believes…

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• Nov 2017 Advised Undisclosed in its sale to SouthWorth Capital
• Feb 2016 Advised Hygea Healthcare on an investment from Macquarie Group
• Dec 2015 Assisted DSM in securing debt financing from BBVA Compass
• Jun 2015 Advised United Country Real Estate in its sale to McCarthy Capital

Merit Investment Bank

1 Closed Deal via Axial 6 Total Closed Deals

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Merit Investment Bank is a leading boutique investment bank focused on middle market companies. We are experts in M&A transaction execution and closing. We combine decades of experience with technical expertise, tenacity, creativity, and dedication to ensure not only that a transaction is closed, but that it is closed in our client’s best interest. We deliver market-leading outcomes by applying the integrity, intelligence, insight, instinct, and intensity of a trusted advisor, with no conflicts. We provide end-to-end M&A advisory services, utilizing our…

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• Mar 2018 Advised Undisclosed in its sale to Traverse Pointe Partners
• Oct 2016 Advised STONEFIRE Grill, Inc. in its sale to Goode Partners
• Nov 2015 Advised Pro-Vac LLC in its sale to Peninsula Capital Partners LLC and Silver Peak Partners
• Jul 2015 Advised Saxton Bradley on an investment from Undisclosed Party

Corporate Finance Associates - Los Angeles

1 Closed Deal via Axial 2 Total Closed Deals

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Our Southern California practice has an exceptional track record as well as the breadth of knowledge and international experience needed to serve this dynamic and diverse region. Our team has owned and run companies in the Technology, Transport/Logistics, Business Services and Banking Sectors both in the US and internationally. In our collective 60 years of M&A and Corporate Finance experience, we have completed many transactions in these sectors as well as in Consumer Goods, Healthcare, and a broad array of manufacturing sectors and are all industries we have served with distinction. Across…

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• Apr 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Dec 2017 Advised Undisclosed in its sale to Aquiline Capital Partners

Stanton Park Advisors

1 Closed Deal via Axial 2 Total Closed Deals

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Stanton Park Advisors is an investment banking firm providing best-in-class business valuation, capital raising, and merger & acquisition advisory services to growth-oriented businesses worldwide.Stanton Park is led by Jon Taylor, an investment banking professional whose career has spanned Wall Street and Capitol Hill for more than 20 years. Jon has more than a decade of merger and acquisition, strategic advisory, and business valuation experience and has successfully advised clients across a broad range of industries, including government services, aerospace & defense, business services,…

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• Jul 2018 Advised Undisclosed on an investment from Excelsior Capital Partners
• Jul 2015 Advised Extra Express in its sale to Dicom Transportation Group / Wind Point Partners

The DVS Group

1 Closed Deal via Axial 61 Total Closed Deals

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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 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Jan 2018 Advised Paper and Dust Pros in its sale to Mr. Rick Roberts & Mr. Geoff Coit
• Nov 2017 Advised A+ Insulation in its sale to IBP
• Sep 2017 Advised Patriot Outfitters in its sale to Galls

Victory Partners, LLC

1 Closed Deal via Axial 45 Total Closed Deals

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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 Advised Signature Landscape Contractors, LLC in its sale to Appalachian Capital
• Jan 2015 Invested in U.S. Organic Peroxides Division
• Jan 2015 Advised Phoenix Radiology in its sale to PSS World Medical Inc.
• Jan 2015 Advised Jolly Chef Express on an investment from Confidential

Britehorn Partners & Britehorn Securities

1 Closed Deal via Axial 20 Total Closed Deals

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Britehorn is a modern advisory firm built for today's business owners and dealmakers.We operate two complementary businesses:Britehorn Partners is a leading middle-market investment bank specializing in mergers & acquisitions and capital formation.Britehorn Securities is a FINRA/SEC-registered broker-dealer providing compliance infrastructure for investment bankers, M&A advisors and institutional private placement agents.Both built by investment bankers. Both designed for practitioners who understand that time kills deals.BRITEHORN PARTNERS:We help business owners achieve outcomes…

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• Jun 2025 Advised Requordit in its sale to Confidential Company
• May 2024 Advised Dovetail Cultural Resources Group in its sale to Confidential Company
• Nov 2023 Advised NANA in its sale to Domestic & General
• Jul 2023 Advised r4e in its sale to PNC Bank

Taureau Group

1 Closed Deal via Axial 12 Total Closed Deals

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Taureau Group is an independent boutique investment bank providing merger and acquisition services to lower middle market companies throughout the world. Our unique capabilities provide clients with a greater number of options, leading to a higher likelihood of success: Navigation of transaction complexitiesProven collaboration and negotiation skills to ensure your needs are metA sense of urgency and a focus on creative solutions that help get deals doneSkilled target research to access an extensive network of potential buyers and sellers, both globally and domesticallyStructured marketing…

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• Mar 2024 Advised Magview, LLC in its sale to Warne Scope Mounts
• Jan 2020 Advised Leick Home in its sale to Design House
• Dec 2019 Advised The C.A. Lawton Co. in its sale to Oakland Standard Co.
• Dec 2019 Advised Sambatek in its sale to Moore Engineering, Inc.

Corporate Finance Associates - NE

1 Closed Deal via Axial 11 Total Closed Deals

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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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• Jul 2023 Advised Xaris in its sale to RiverDam
• Jul 2023 Advised Oral Care in its sale to Tandartsprayktijk Kennermerland
• Jul 2023 Advised Mikrona Group in its sale to WinterBerg Group
• Jul 2023 Advised CLAAS in its sale to Feick

Allen Villere Partners

1 Closed Deal via Axial 8 Total Closed Deals

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We are a transaction-oriented private investment banking and consulting services firm focusing on the ready-mixed concrete, aggregate and construction materials industries. Seventy years of combined experience, highly specialized skills and relationships with the largest industry leaders are just a few of the reasons Allen-Villere has a national reputation for excellence.A unique perspectiveOur vision is tightly focused on the economics of our industry. Allen-Villere practices exclusively in the ready-mixed concrete, aggregate and construction materials industries, and we are proud of our…

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• Feb 2024 Advised Vulcan Materials Company in its sale to Andrada Holdings, LLC Quarry
• Jul 2023 Advised Wildcatter Redi-Mix in its sale to Paisano Redi-Mix, Inc.
• Jul 2023 Advised Farmer Companies in its sale to Show Me Ready Mix
• Jun 2023 Advised Beelman Truck Co. in its sale to Quad County Ready Mix

Stout Capital, LLC

1 Closed Deal via Axial 2 Total Closed Deals

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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 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Buyer
• Jan 2024 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company

Group M

1 Closed Deal via Axial 1 Total Closed Deal

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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 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Buyer

Hyde Park Capital Advisors, LLC

155 Total Closed Deals

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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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• Aug 2026 Advised Pro-Max in its sale to Madison River Capital
• Jul 2026 Advised Multi-Site Veterinary Practice in its sale to National, Privately Held Strategic
• Jul 2026 Advised Andrew Site Work in its sale to Crest Rock Partners
• Jul 2026 Advised Five Points Roofing Company in its sale to HighPoint Exterior Home Services

Brookwood Associates

149 Total Closed Deals

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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 Advised Togo’s Holdings, LLC in its sale to Nimes Capital
• Oct 2017 Advised Smash Management Inc in its sale to World Wide Wings, LLC and Partners Group
• Aug 2017 Advised Taco Bell Corp. in its sale to American Franchise Corp.
• Aug 2017 Advised Silver Diner on an investment from Goode Partners