Top Investment Banks - Axial

Bayfield Partners is a boutique investment bank serving private middle market and emerging growth companies. The firm provides M&A and capital raising services to entrepreneur and family owned companies that prefer an extra level of personal attention. Advisory services include buy-side and sell-side M&A, as well as general strategic advisory. Capital raising includes venture capital, growth equity, private equity, bank debt, private senior debt and mezzanine debt. Bayfield serves clients in all industries, including industrial, energy, gaming, healthcare, business services, consumer and…

Merrimack Group is a boutique investment bank serving clients in STEM fields and manufacturing industries, with specialty practices focused on LED lighting and metal fabrication.

We make the right deals happen at the right time. For our clients, we:Sell all or a majority of your company so shareholders can monetize their ownership;Assist larger companies and investors with acquisitions; andRaise capital from the right investor at the best-possible terms.Our comprehensive expertise covers all aspects of M&A and capital raising, including:Financial, strategic and operational transaction preparation;Due diligence;Deal structuring and negotiation; andDocumentationWe’re about the true consumer product and retail innovators who fight the good fight, take risks, and change…

Xnergy Financial is an international investment bank that provides corporate finance and merger & acquisition strategy to emerging and middle-market companies.

Sparring Partners Capital is an investment bank providing Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory and Capital Raising Services to technology-enabled companies and private equity firms. Headquartered in New York City, Sparring Partners maintains relationships globally to service its international client base. The firm works with a select number of clients to ensure a high level of service with all clients receiving senior-level attention and priority. Sparring Partners was founded in 2001 by Warren H. Spar after a successful career as a Partner at Lehman Brothers and a Managing Director at Deutsche…

Rockland Advisory Group, LLC (www.rocklandadvisory.com) is an investment banking and financial advisory firm offering independent, objective and value-added investment banking services to middle market companies and their owners. Through its affiliated broker dealer, Rockland Securities, LLC, Rockland provides merger, acquisition, divestiture, debt and equity financing, capital restructuring and advisory services. All of our Partners have more than 25 years of experience in financial services and are experienced in structuring, financing, negotiating and closing complex transactions across…

RGL Advisors delivers strategic insights that help you achieve business objectives, navigate competitive and regulatory landscapes, address corporate opportunities and challenges, and execute financial initiatives. Our size, reach, and ongoing dialogue with capital sources and corporate leader can provide you incredible access to relationships throughout the world, whether in a sales process, acquisition, or capital raise. In addition to bringing the best-suited parties to a transaction, we deliver high quality, independent services with deep industry expertise, robust analytics and extensive…

Inlet Capital Group provides strategy consulting and transaction advisory exclusively to the aggregates and construction materials industry, with a focus on Florida, the Southeast, the Mid-Atlantic, and other sunbelt regions. We help our clients make informed decisions, implement strategies that improve competitive position, and execute transactions that enhance value. Our clients include large publicly traded companies, privately held businesses, private equity groups, family offices, and other financial institutions.

Carleton McKenna & Company is an independent, boutique investment banking firm providing outstanding M&A Advisory, Capital Raising, and Valuation Advisory Services. We work with privately-held businesses, portfolio companies of financial sponsor firms, and divisions or subsidiaries of public companies, as well as early growth businesses, across many industries. Carleton McKenna is committed to outperforming client expectations and the competition by being: Experienced, Client-Focused, and Entrepreneurial.

Founded in 1986, BCC is one of Cleveland's most experienced independent investment banking firms, providing advisory and investment banking services to entrepreneurs, privately held and publicly held middle-market companies, private equity firms, and family offices. Our experience includes advising on the sale of businesses, strategic acquisitions, private capital, valuations and related matters. Since BCC's inception, we have remained consistent in our mission to private owners and entrepreneurs and have completed hundreds of transactions and valuations for our clients with one goal in mind:…

Bundy Group provides investment banking and transaction advisory services to clients across numerous markets, including healthcare and life sciences. The highly experienced team within Bundy Group includes transaction and operating professionals with a combined 100 years of experience in investment banking and corporate finance. As a 31 year-old boutique firm, the senior team leverages its specialized focus on our core markets to guide clients through the entire process of selling their company, raising capital, and pursuing acquisitions for growth. 

We help global multinationals, prominent mid-sized companies and leading private equity firms to build and re-position their businesses through mergers and acquisitions, business sales / divestitures and strategic alliances. With highly skilled professionals in New York, Chicago, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich, Prague, Milan, Hong Kong and Beijing, we help clients facilitate transactions globally.

CriticalPoint Partners (CPP) is an M&A Advisory Firm and Investment Bank, headquartered in Los Angeles. Focused on sourcing, negotiating and executing a range of transactions for our clients, we strive to enhance shareholder value through acquisitions, or to maximize proceeds in a business sale. We take a long-term view with respect to our clients and build partnerships that span the course of multiple transactions. CPP was founded upon the core principle of providing world-class strategic advice to lower middle market companies. As experienced principal investors, we bring decades of deal…

At Black Legend Capital, we have the ability to provide an attractive assortment of financial ventures. We partner with corporations and management teams to provide strategy and consulting resources to build and grow great companies and asset-based projects. We have facilitated several industry projects to generate leading returns for our clients.Black Legend Capital was formed in 2011 by senior bankers formerly with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Duff & Phelps.Through tenure with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Duff & Phelps, the senior members of the BLC team have completed…

Legacy Capital Advisors, LLC provides a very sophisticated level of Merger and Acquisition advisory services exclusively to closely-held, middle market companies. We utilize proven, unique, innovative processes to help our clients attain maximum value from Merger & Acquisition transactions while maintaining confidentiality and minimizing business disruption.Our principals have worked together as a team for over 20 years providing our clients with over $2 billion of liquidity. We have represented and advised business owners across a wide variety of industries with a core focus on…

Capstone Financial Group, Inc. is an investment banking firm which has assisted middle market companies with valuations, mergers and acquisitions, refinancing, consulting and turnarounds since 1988. Specializing in the automotive aftermarket, Capstone has been at the forefront of predicting, identifying and adapting to that industry’s tumultuous changes. The firm’s professionals are intimately familiar with the automotive aftermarket’s diverse types of manufacturing and its complex distribution channels, and they have extensive experience in operations, cost accounting, and industry…

North River Advisors is a boutique investment bank and advisory firm founded in 2008 whose focus is to work with a select group of middle market companies, financial sponsors, family-owned businesses and entrepreneurs as an independent, trusted advisor. Founded by Jay Yarbrough, a former senior investment banker at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch with 20 years of advisory experience, North River advises clients on their most important strategic and capital raising initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, private placements of debt and equity, and balance sheet…

MS Capital Advisors Ltd. is a private investment banking and corporate financial advisory firm committed to providing discreet, trusted advice and transactional services across a broad range of industries and situations. Mark Stafford founded MSCA in 2006, intending to impart high quality, "Big Firm" execution and services to small and middle market companies. Although Mr. Stafford has worked on both large and small transactions during his investment banking years at Bankers Trust, The Bank of New York and Fieldstone Private Capital Group, he has enjoyed and had more of an overall impact…

Telsey Advisory Group ("TAG") is a leading equity research, institutional equity sales and trading, investment banking, and consulting firm with a focus on the retail and consumer sectors. TAG was founded in 2006 by Dana Telsey, a retail industry expert with over 27 years of buy-side and sell-side experience focused on the retail and consumer sector and the #1 ranked Specialty Stores analyst for seven consecutive years by Institutional Investor magazine. TAG is often cited as an authoritative source for perspectives on the consumer and its analysts frequently appear across media channels,…

Boutique known for uncovering both buy and sell side opportunities others miss. Plains Capital Partners provides expert merger and acquisition, capital raising and strategic advisory services (including growth strategy) to small and mid-market companies with revenues between $20 million and $200 million. With over 80 years of collective experience, our award-winning banking team brings the creativity, tenacity, and long-term relationships that differentiate our firm from our competitors.We do NOT work with sponsor funds nor do we work with individuals who pretend they are family offices but…