Axial Member Directory

Corporate Finance Associates is an independent international investment banking firm serving lower middle-market businesses. For over 65 years Corporate Finance Associates has been advocating on behalf of business owners who are restructuring a company, either through divestiture, merger, acquisition or recapitalization. Combining the knowledge and leverage of a larger bank with the customer focused detail of a boutique firm, from inception to completion, our senior principals provide hands-on expertise to clients buying, selling or recapitalizing a business.

BCC Advisers specializes in merger & acquisition consulting, business valuation and litigation support services, providing personalized solutions to privately-held businesses. For nearly three decades we have provided consultation to thousands of clients in a broad range of industries. We are a valued adviser in ESOP and merger and acquisition transactions, and provide independent analyses for business valuation and litigation support assignments.

Evangeline Securities provides investment banking services to lower middle market companies across a broad spectrum of industries. With offices in Lafayette and New Orleans, LA, the firm offers corporate finance, securities placement, M&A and restructuring expertise. Evangeline professionals bring their collective decades of experience to each assignment, having raised institutional capital and performed advisory services for deal sizes ranging from $20 million to over $200 million.Evangeline Securities was formed by a group of top tier Wall Street professionals with the singular goal of…

SouthWorth Capital Management, LLC is a family office looking to invest in and grow businesses that have the following characteristics: - Fragmented industry and a deep target market - Experienced management in place where we can provide financial incentives to create a stake for management - Enhanced returns that can be achieved through scale - Circumstances which allow our experience to be value additive to the growth of the investment SouthWorth Capital Management, LLC invests in multiple industries. Our current portfolio includes retail, advertising, logistics, imports, business services…

JLL Partners is a leading private equity firm with a 34-year track record of transforming businesses through its operational and financial expertise. JLL Partners is dedicated to partnering with companies that it can fundamentally help build into market leaders through a combination of strategic mergers and acquisitions, market repositioning, and product and service line expansion. The JLL team is comprised of investment professionals and operating partners with extensive experience in portfolio company management, transaction structuring, capital markets, and business development. The firm…

Founded in 2004, Alaris Equity Partners is a private equity firm based in Calgary, Alberta. The firm targets traditional majority recap/control sale mandates and structures the investments in a non-control manner via perpetual preferred equity. Throughout the company's 17 year history, the preferred MBO solution has proven to create full liquidity events for the exiting majority shareholders while simultaneously providing an attractive option for high quality management teams to increase their post transaction common equity ownership to 100% where they can control the business moving forward…

Founded in 2002, ShoreView is a Minneapolis-based private equity firm that has raised over $1.3 billion of committed capital across four funds.  ShoreView partners with family or entrepreneurial-owned companies across many sectors, including engineered products, distribution, industrial services, business services, healthcare, and niche consumer products. Shoreview structures a variety of acquisition, recapitalization and build-up transactions, typically in businesses with revenues ranging between $20 million and $300 million.The Partners at ShoreView have completed over 100 lower…

Gauge Capital is a private equity firm that makes shared control and majority investments in growth-oriented service business. We tend to focus on the business service, healthcare service, consumer service, and food service sectors. Our platform investments typically have north of $5 million of EBITDA and are based in the US or Canada.

Hillstar Capital is focused on partnering with business owners and management teams to build durable business value over time. We also provide capital to companies with owners who desire liquidity or asset diversification, including full ownership transition. We tailor our investments to meet the specific needs of business owners and can offer flexible and creative solutions for various liquidity alternatives. We realize that growing small businesses requires focused efforts, expertise and nurturing. Upon transaction closing, we are intensely focused on supporting our portfolio companies with…

Bluff Point Associates is a Family Office based in Westport, Connecticut. Bluff Point actively invests in information services companies supporting the banking, trust, securities, retirement and wealth management sectors of the financial services industry, as well as the healthcare information services sector.Bluff Point Associates invests in growth companies in the financial services and healthcare industries and looks for the following in potential investments:• Recurring revenue model• Technology as a core competency• Strong senior management• The ability to gain a control…

Evolution Capital Partners (ECP) is a small business private equity firm investing control growth equity in founder led businesses generating annual EBITDA of at least $1,000,000. Evolution invests in small businesses with opportunities for growth but lacking the capital, management or expertise in certain critical competencies that are required to realize a company’s true potential.Investment Criteria:- Company Size: $1,000,000 - $3,000,000 in EBITDA; - Gross Profit Margin at least 40%;- Minimum of 12% EBITDA margin; - Equity Investment Size: $3,000,000 - $10,000,000; - Geography:…

Using 30-year committed funds, Permanent Equity invests in companies that care what happens next. Our current portfolio includes 14 investments in companies like Pacific Air Industries, Blue Square Manufacturing, Chance Rides, AdAdvance, Selective Search, and MediaCross.We are looking to steward companies with durable value propositions and great teams. In each case, we examine why the company will be successful by remaining independent and why market demand is likely to endure over time, creating highly sustainable cash flow. We only consider companies headquartered in North America. Our…

Founded in 2002, Argonaut Private Equity is a Tulsa, Oklahoma based private equity firm with over $1.5 billion of capital deployed by the firm’s principals. The firm is currently investing out of Argonaut Private Equity Fund IV, a $400 million fund that deploys Argonaut’s strategy of making control-oriented buyout investments in companies in the industrial, manufacturing and energy services and products sectors. Argonaut looks to partner with management teams to improve operations, implement best practices and generate shareholder value.  Argonaut has an over 15-year…

LongWater Opportunities is an operationally focused private equity firm targeting control equity investments in family-owned, American manufacturing companies. Founded in 2009 by entrepreneurs Jordan Bastable and Brooks Burgum, Longwater sought to build a private equity firm focused on aligning interests and investing patient capital to build great American businesses. Using their previous experience as private sector CEO’s, the founders have successfully executed this model, culminating in 11 completed acquisitions and the recent closing of Longwater’s third fund. At Longwater we…

BlackBern Partners LLC invests in mature operating companies in the lower middle market, partnering with management teams that have a proven track record of success and providing capital to realize organic growth and acquisition opportunities. BlackBern is industry agnostic and focuses on situations where it can see specific opportunities to add value. A flexible mandate allows BlackBern to tailor investments for companies with a wide range of capital needs.Beyond the aforementioned criteria, interest in any investment is situation-specific. The Partnership engages in both time-sensitive and…

Sunny River Management, LLC is an operationally-focused private investment firm backed by patient, long-term, family capital. Our focus is to build leading, middle-market companies in desirable industries by acquiring, operating, and growing smaller businesses. We are operationally-focused investors who have spent years in operating roles. We keep a close eye on the operations of our businesses and are readily available to support our management teams.Our approach is to concentrate on a few sectors to invest in and then immerse ourselves in each sector, working closely with our operational…

Timepiece Capital acquires and builds exceptional companies in the lower and middle markets.Our group has a track record of acquiring or recapitalizing companies with annual revenue of $5 million to $50 million.We target companies in strong, defensible industry niches. These companies utilize proven business models to compete effectively in their marketplace. Growth in revenue and profitability should be achievable through increased market share, the addition of new products or services, or the execution of complementary add-on acquisitions.After we acquire or recapitalize a company, we…

Thornblade Capital is a private equity investment and advisory firm passionate about small business—specifically those with sales revenues of $3 to $50 million. Our motto is short-term investments and advisory for a long-term return. And with a team that has managed over $3 billion in private equity transactions, we have a strong track record of helping companies reach their potential.

Hidden Harbor Capital Partners is a private equity firm with an operations soul and intense passion for building great companies. Hidden Harbor brings large-scale, private equity experience and resources to the lower middle market with a focus on value-oriented, operationally intense situations. Our principals are investor operators who have both extensive transaction and operating experience to truly understand your business. As one team, we partner and work hand-in-hand with our portfolio companies to drive business successes.We love corporate carve-outs (3 out of our 6 portfolio companies…

Silver Peak Partners, based in Denver, Colorado, is a private equity firm focused on small companies with $2 million to $15 million of EBITDA. We will consider smaller transactions as well if they are a strong fit with our industries of interest. We seek to partner with current company owners and managers to build investment value through operational improvements, strategic acquisitions, and pursuit of new growth opportunities.Our principals have extensive backgrounds in acquiring and working with small companies. We have a network of operating advisors with over 150 years of combined…