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FourBridges Capital Advisors

40 Total Closed Deals

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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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• Jul 2025 Advised Metro Plumbing Heating and Air in its sale to USA Hometown Experts
• Apr 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• May 2024 Advised Available Plastics Inc. in its sale to Confidential Company
• Jan 2024 Advised Southeast Lineman Training Center in its sale to Warren Equity Partners

Oaklyn Consulting

38 Total Closed Deals

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Oaklyn Consulting is a different kind of investment banking advisor for small to mid-sized organizations. We help clients negotiate mergers, acquisitions, capital raises, recapitalizations and joint ventures.We serve founder-owned and investor-backed businesses as well as nonprofits, co-ops, and professional services firms.We have earned the trust of referral partners, who are investment bankers, investors, lenders, lawyers, wealth advisors and similar professionals.Working as consultants, or "hourly investment bankers," we help where traditional investment banking advisors cannot.Since 2016,…

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• Jun 2026 Advised 911 Custom in its sale to LEHR Upfitters Holdings
• Apr 2026 Advised Calmont Beverage in its sale to Baker Distributing
• Nov 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Nov 2025 Advised Shotflow in its sale to Creative Force

Sterling Point Advisors

37 Total Closed Deals

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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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• Jan 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Jan 2025 Advised Fire Safety Products in its sale to PE backed company
• Apr 2024 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Feb 2024 Advised Scale Systems Inc. (B&D Industrial) in its sale to System Scale Corporation

Palm Tree

32 Total Closed Deals

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Palm Tree is the modern M&A advisor. Our integrated investment banking, transaction support, and strategic finance services power the strategic events that drive businesses forward.We guide clients through high-stakes processes. Our analytical intelligence accelerates decisions, enabling them to better prepare for and execute on transactions, transitions, and transformations.Investors engage with us to help them highlight opportunities, mitigate risks, and reduce deal friction so they can act decisively and focus on realizing investment objectives. Entrepreneurs and management teams…

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• Dec 2023 Advised Hicuity Health in its sale to Concord Health Partners
• Dec 2023 Advised Essex Specialized Surgerical Institute in its sale to NMS Capital
• Dec 2023 Advised Lifescan Diabetes Institute on an investment from Confidential Company
• Dec 2023 Advised ImageTrend in its sale to WCAS

Carriage Hill Inc.

32 Total Closed Deals

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Carriage Hill is an investment bank that specializes in privately negotiated transactions between private middle market companies and high quality private equity groups. This is accomplished without the use of traditional books and the auction process. We have a prominent record and respected reputation for successfully helping shareholders of privately held middle market companies navigate the challenges of reorganizing assets, accelerating growth through acquisitions, finding hidden value, resolving shareholder disputes, planning generational transitions and planning exit strategies.…

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• Dec 2016 Advised Bright Life in its sale to BDC Management LLC
• Nov 2016 Advised Interview Stream/Brazos in its sale to RIVS
• Aug 2016 Advised The Orthodontic Store, Inc. in its sale to Young Innovations
• Aug 2016 Advised Prestige Cosmetics in its sale to Caret Corporation

Pickwick Capital Partners

29 Total Closed Deals

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Pickwick Capital Partners, LLC assists middle-market companies and alternative investment firms achieve their strategic, financing and M&A objectives. We do this through a focused and collaborative process driven by the talent of our advisors, who bring a wealth of experience from leading investment banks such as Morgan Stanley, Jefferies & Company, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, and others.Our team is comprised of energetic, hands-on solution providers. We focus on quality, and each and every transaction is important to us. Pickwick clients can be assured their advisors are true partners with…

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• Apr 2023 Advised Harmony Energy Technology in its sale to Zircon Corporation
• Feb 2023 Advised Telegia Communications in its sale to One Ring Networks
• Dec 2022 Advised Topo Athletic in its sale to Designer Brands
• Jul 2022 Advised Desert iNET in its sale to BAM Broadband

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R.L. Hulett

29 Total Closed Deals

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R.L. Hulett is a middle-market investment banking firm providing business owners, executives and private equity firms with M&A advisory services designed to deliver optimal outcomes. We have a deep commitment to the success of our clients and have a 40+ year track record with lead advisory roles in hundreds of transactions. What sets us apart is our passionate approach and our ability to deliver exceptional results through an unwavering commitment to client service.Since our founding in 1981, thousands of clients have trusted R.L. Hulett as their M&A advisors to help them achieve their goals.…

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• Apr 2026 Advised Glaenzer Electric in its sale to Heritage Holding
• Oct 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Aug 2025 Advised Blue Mountain Mechanical, Inc. in its sale to Heritage Holding
• Apr 2025 Advised Mitchell Humphrey & Co. in its sale to Tripleview Technologies USA Inc.

Scott-Macon Group, Inc

29 Total Closed Deals

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Scott-Macon Group, Inc. (nka SMG Securities, Inc.) is one of the oldest independent investment banks in the United States focused on middle market transactions in the range of $10 million to $500 million. Founded in 1973 by Alfred L. Scott, the firm is comprised of senior professionals who have had extensive transaction experience in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, valuations and fairness opinions and general corporate financial consulting.

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• Jan 2013 Advised Blue Buddha in its sale to BrainTrust
• Jan 2013 Advised SureFit LLC in its sale to Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics
• Jan 2013 Advised Interview in its sale to Brant Publishing Company
• Jan 2013 Advised Goshen Rubber Companies, Inc. in its sale to Wynn's International, Inc.

Balmoral Advisors, LLC

28 Total Closed Deals

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Balmoral Advisors is an independent, specialty investment bank dedicated to providing mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance, and financial restructuring advisory services involving mid-sized transactions. We specialize in helping clients sell their businesses, find and complete acquisitions, and raise or refinance capital. We work with business owners, corporations and financial investors worldwide involving early stage growth companies, successful mature businesses, corporate divestitures, distressed and special situations.

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• Apr 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Jan 2025 Assisted Confidential Company in securing debt financing from Confidential Company
• Dec 2023 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Dec 2020 Advised Allpoints, Inc. Building Services in its sale to Service Logic

Focus Strategies Investment Banking

28 Total Closed Deals

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Based in Austin Texas, Focus Strategies has earned a reputation as a premier middle-market investment bank focused on serving the unique needs of privately held businesses seeking capital or ownership transition. Built on an impeccable reputation for high integrity, we help companies and their owners flourish by applying broad experience, industry expertise, hands-on guidance and local knowledge to maximize shareholder value. Focus Strategies specializes in merger and acquisition advisory, raising capital and providing strategic advisory services for founder-owned middle market companies. We…

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• Oct 2024 Advised Lamar Technical Services, Inc. in its sale to Think Power Solutions
• Oct 2023 Assisted Milk + Honey in securing debt financing from Confidential Company
• May 2023 Advised Trace Analytics LLC in its sale to Ingersoll Rand
• Feb 2023 Advised MSB School Services in its sale to Craftsman Capital

League Park Advisors

25 Total Closed Deals

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​League Park is a boutique investment bank that professionally and ethically advises clients on strategies aimed to maximize shareholder value. We assist middle market companies with transactions that generate value through mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, capital raising, structured finance, and outsourced corporate development.Our deep industry expertise spans business services, healthcare, industrial, retail and consumer products, specialty distribution, technology and transportation and logistics. With a unique blend of investment banking, corporate development, private…

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• Oct 2024 Advised SOSS® Door Hardware in its sale to Allegion plc
• Apr 2024 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Apr 2024 Advised Arco Comfort Air, LLC in its sale to Confidential Company
• Apr 2024 Advised Childers Holding Company Inc. in its sale to Grove Mountain Partners

Romanchuk & Co.

25 Total Closed Deals

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Romanchuk & Co. is an award-winning boutique M&A investment banking firm with a focused expertise in advising companies within the energy and industrials sectors. We advise business owners on the preparation and sale of their company, assist them in identifying strategic opportunities, and help them execute upon those strategies. We specialize in providing sell-side M&A advisory services to lower middle-market companies with revenues or enterprise values ranging from $15 million to $250 million. For more information, please visit our website at www.romanchukco.com.Registered…

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• May 2024 Advised BCM & Associates in its sale to JMR Services
• Apr 2024 Advised Space City Services in its sale to Quantix
• Oct 2023 Advised Outsource Utility Construction Corp. in its sale to Jumana Capital
• Oct 2023 Advised Yates Line Co. in its sale to GridTek Utility Services

Peakview Partners

24 Total Closed Deals

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Founded in 2015, Peakview Partners was established to provide focused and dedicated Partner-level advisory services for M&A and Financing transactions. Tim Dailey and Warren Henson, both with 30+ years of investment banking experience, came together with the vision of creating a boutique firm large enough to leverage a breadth of diverse experience while small enough for the Partners to deliver expertise and tailored support across the entire process directly to each client.Warren and Tim met nearly 20 years ago, and they worked on numerous transactions together when Warren was with Green…

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• Nov 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Oct 2024 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Oct 2024 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Sep 2024 Advised Access Mediquip in its sale to Water Street

Footprint Capital

20 Total Closed Deals

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In our opinion, critical elements to providing sound advice come from experiences, a willingness to learn, and diversity. Each member of our team has followed a distinct path, giving us a view into mergers and acquisitions from all angles. These varying business perspectives include those of acquisition advisors, company owners, lenders, investors, internal strategists, accountants, and from within Fortune 500 companies. We have seen what works in successful engagements and how to predict and prevent problems in transactions. Such expertise means we can put ourselves in a client’s shoes and…

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• Dec 2023 Advised Advanced Services in its sale to Eco
• Dec 2023 Advised MRCS in its sale to Beacon Specialized Living
• Dec 2023 Advised The Basement Doctor in its sale to Tecum Equity
• Dec 2023 Advised Columbia Corrugated Box in its sale to SupplyOne

Brock Capital Group, LLC

20 Total Closed Deals

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Employing the unparalleled collective experience and relationships of its 45+ managing directors, Brock Capital Group offers investment banking advisory and consulting services to clients on a broad variety of matters at the most senior level. Brock partners include former heads of investment banking groups at global Wall Street firms as well as C-level executives and directors of Fortune 500 companies. No other firm brings the same level of expertise to middle market clients. Services include advising and leading private company sales, corporate spin-outs, management buy-outs, private…

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• Dec 2014 Advised WesTest Engineering Corporation in its sale to Rantec Power Systems
• Nov 2014 Assisted Aerofleet in securing debt financing from Board Advisory
• Mar 2014 Advised Exosome Diagnostics on an investment from Qiagen
• Jan 2014 Advised Chrysler Group LLC in its sale to Fiat North America LLC

Neri Capital Partners

20 Total Closed Deals

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Established in April of 2006, Neri Capital Partners, an independent boutique investment bank, provides Merger and Acquisition and Advisory services for owners of privately held companies. Our firm has multi-market sector experience for companies whose revenue ranges from $5.0 to $50.0 million. Neri Capital is recognized for simplifying complex transactions, and advising clients in making the best decisions for their business, not ours.  We generally work with profitable ($1.0 to $15.0 million EBITDA) manufacturers, business-to-business services, tech, healthcare, trades,…

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• Dec 2014 Advised Sexton Dental Clinic, Inc. in its sale to A Private Investor
• Nov 2014 Advised Carpenter Avionics, Inc. in its sale to Momentum Aviation Holdings, Inc.
• Jul 2014 Advised The Mews, LLC in its sale to Senior Living, Inc.
• May 2014 Advised Carter Insulation and Services, Inc. in its sale to Franklin Asset Management, LLC

Houlihan Capital

19 Total Closed Deals

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Houlihan Capital is a leading, solutions-driven valuation, financial advisory and boutique investment banking firm committed to delivering superior client value. We pride ourselves on being thought leaders in an ever-changing landscape. Houlihan Capital is a FINRA and SIPC member, committed to the highest levels of professional ethics and standards. Investment Banking Services We provide sell side and buy side M&A advisory services, institutional private placement and capital raises. Valuation and Financial Advisory We provide an array of services that range from portfolio valuation,…

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• Aug 2023 Advised AMI in its sale to Israel Aerospace Industries Inc.
• Aug 2023 Acquired Aero-Mark LLC
• Aug 2023 Assisted Bond Medical in securing debt financing from Bank of America
• Aug 2023 Advised Clay Petroleum Group in its sale to HESS

Baird Business Owner Solutions

17 Total Closed Deals

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We advise buyers and sellers on business sales, mergers, acquisitions, ESOPs and other similar transactions. Our Business Owner Solutions team will deliver the strategic advice and practical guidance to help you achieve the optimal outcome in your business transition. Our credentialed, experienced business valuation team understands both the art and science of business valuation. We tailor each project to the client's unique situation and needs. The ongoing M&A experience of our Business Owner Solutions team is a critical factor grounding our valuations in the real world.When you're ready to…

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• Dec 2017 Advised Pluto Corporation in its sale to Derby Supply Chain Solutions
• Oct 2017 Advised StaffMasters, Inc. in its sale to Hire Dynamics
• Aug 2017 Advised Kay Manufacturing in its sale to SRS Ventures
• May 2017 Advised Grandview Gallery in its sale to CID Capital

Ankura Capital Advisors

16 Total Closed Deals

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Ankura Capital Advisors, LLC (ACA) (Member FINRA, SIPC) offers investment banking services related to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures as well as private placement capital raises:M&A financial advisory for private and publicly traded companies, investment funds, and not-for-profit organizationsBuy-side advisorySell-side advisory (including dispositions of divisions and non-core assets)Private placement transactions: placement agent services in connection with the sale of equity, debt, and hybrid securities to financial investors and strategic partnersLoan brokeringCapital RaisingOur…

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• Oct 2025 Advised Wilbur on an investment from Investible
• Apr 2025 Assisted Broadway Strategic Return Fund in securing debt financing from BC Partners
• Feb 2025 Advised DCL Monteith Plant in its sale to Lorama Group Inc.
• Feb 2025 Advised DCL Waterfoot Plant in its sale to Lorama Group Inc.

Business Capital

14 Total Closed Deals

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Business Capital is a leading commercial finance and debt restructuring firm specializing in arranging customized debt based solutions for rapidly growing as well as distressed small and middle market companies nationwide who require a unique, timely and tailored financing structure to address their particular needs. In situations where conventional capital sources are not an option, Business Capital has repeatedly delivered financial solutions to a broad assortment of private and public companies seeking additional liquidity.

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• Jun 2015 Assisted Ice Cream Manufacturer in securing debt financing from Confidential
• May 2015 Advised Hortau on an investment from Confidential Capital Provider
• Mar 2015 Assisted General Engineering Contractor in securing debt financing from Confidential
• Feb 2015 Assisted Frozen Treats Mfgr. in securing debt financing from Confidential