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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

Bridgepoint Investment Banking

147 Total Closed Deals

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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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• Sep 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Mar 2025 Advised Confidential Company on an investment from Confidential Company
• Jul 2024 Advised Confidential Company on an investment from Confidential Company
• Mar 2024 Advised W-S Companies in its sale to Groome (portfolio of Argosy Private Equity)

Hyde Park Capital Advisors, LLC

147 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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• Jun 2026 Advised GOHUNT in its sale to Brandt Information Services
• Jun 2026 Advised Procare Ambulance on an investment from Prodos Capital and Manolin Investment Group
• Jan 2026 Advised Syracuse Orthopedic Specialists and Affiliates in its sale to Evolve Orthopedic Partners
• Aug 2025 Advised Commercial Residential Aluminum in its sale to Garden City Equity

PCE Investment Bankers

107 Total Closed Deals

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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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• Dec 2025 Advised JF Lomma in its sale to Bay Crane Services
• Jun 2025 Advised The Appliance Barn in its sale to Grand Appliance
• May 2025 Advised American Door Products Inc. in its sale to Riverbend Industries Inc.
• Apr 2025 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company

GulfStar Group

73 Total Closed Deals

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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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• Apr 2016 Advised Cactus Fuel, LLC in its sale to Hastings Equity Partners
• Mar 2016 Advised Gibson Applied Technology & Engineering, Inc. on an investment from Morgan Stanley Credit Partners
• Dec 2015 Advised The Infinity Group in its sale to Wood Group
• Dec 2015 Advised XL Parts in its sale to Marubeni America Corporation

The DAK Group

73 Total Closed Deals

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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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• Sep 2025 Advised Coastal Properties in its sale to Howard Hanna Allen Tate Real Estate
• May 2025 Advised Couranto in its sale to Prenax
• Apr 2025 Advised Trademark Roofing LLC in its sale to Unified Service Partners
• Mar 2025 Advised Drape Kings in its sale to Quest Events

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Carter Morse & Goodrich

53 Total Closed Deals

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M&A Expertise for Families and FoundersLocated in Southport, Connecticut, Carter Morse & Goodrich is a boutique M&A advisory firm that specializes in representing closely-held and family businesses valued between $25 million and $250 million. CMG specializes in helping owners of leading companies in unique and niche markets to plan, prepare, execute, and close successful transactions that maximize shareholder value. We fully understand and appreciate the unique dynamics of closely-held and family businesses and the importance of their legacies.While CMG provides a full range of investment…

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• May 2023 Advised Warren Electric in its sale to The Nudyne Group
• Feb 2023 Advised GEM Manufacturing on an investment from CORE Industrial Partners
• Feb 2023 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Jan 2023 Advised Williams Distributing in its sale to Daikin Comfort Technologies, Inc.

VRA Partners, LLC

51 Total Closed Deals

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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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• Aug 2023 Advised Advanced Practice Education Associates, Inc. in its sale to Assessment Technologies Institute, LLC
• May 2023 Advised SquareMouth in its sale to Specialty Program Group, LLC
• Apr 2023 Advised Modus eDiscovery Inc. in its sale to Repario
• Sep 2022 Advised Business Intelligence Associates in its sale to HaystackID

Dresner Partners

50 Total Closed Deals

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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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• May 2023 Advised Vic West Importers d/b/a Grandpa Gus' in its sale to VCM Products
• Mar 2015 Advised Damian Services Corp on an investment from Sterling Bancorp
• Jul 2014 Advised Guardian Industries on an investment from Altra Industrial
• Mar 2014 Advised G2 Partners in its sale to Excellere Partners

Tully & Holland, Inc.

47 Total Closed Deals

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Tully & Holland is a boutique investment banking firm founded in 1992 that provides financial advisory services to the consumer sector. Tully & Holland consistently ranks among the nation's most active investment banks in the Food & Beverage, Direct Marketing and Retail sectors. The firm offers merger and acquisition advisory, management buyouts, private placements and valuation services. The firm focuses on the middle market and typically handles transactions between $10 million and $200 million.

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• Jul 2024 Advised Indie Lee in its sale to American Exchange Group
• Jun 2024 Advised Venus Wafers, Inc. in its sale to Circumspect Capital
• Jul 2023 Advised Nikon in its sale to Avonix Imaging
• Mar 2021 Advised Vermont Coffee Company in its sale to Stonewall Kitchen

Cassel Salpeter & Co.

47 Total Closed Deals

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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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• May 2024 Advised Intergalactic in its sale to Aldevron LLC
• Apr 2024 Advised Bird in its sale to Third Lane Mobility Inc.
• Dec 2023 Assisted Healthly LLC in securing debt financing from Corbel Capital Partners
• Feb 2021 Assisted Plantation Boat Mart & Marina, Inc. in securing debt financing from Capital Provider

The Dillard Anderson Group

44 Total Closed Deals

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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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• Jun 2026 Advised The Loomis Agency/iluminere in its sale to Meet The People
• Oct 2024 Advised Premier Transportation on an investment from The Hoffman Family of Companies
• Jul 2019 Advised Southwest Medical and Dental in its sale to DHPI, Inc.
• Feb 2018 Advised Excel Stimulation (Certain Assets) on an investment from Rock Hard Cementing

The McLean Group, LLC

44 Total Closed Deals

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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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• Jun 2019 Advised CDM Fitness Holding in its sale to Spanos Barber Jesse & Co
• Jun 2019 Advised KeyLogic in its sale to IIA Technologies
• Apr 2019 Advised Trowbridge & Trowbridge, LLC in its sale to Enlightenment Capital
• Mar 2019 Advised Phacil in its sale to ByLight

XLCS Partners

42 Total Closed Deals

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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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• Apr 2017 Advised SSP Innovations on an investment from Warren Equity Partners
• Dec 2016 Advised Broken Arrow Communications in its sale to Blue Sage Capital and Private Equity Capital Corporation
• Nov 2016 Advised The Industrial Graphics Division of GSI Technologies in its sale to Cypress MultiGraphics
• Nov 2016 Advised White Distribution & Supply in its sale to Slate Capital Group

ROTH Capital Partners, LLC

40 Total Closed Deals

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ROTH is an investment banking firm dedicated to the small-cap public market. Since its inception in 1984, ROTH has been an innovator in this market. Headquartered in Newport Beach, CA, ROTH has regional offices in San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle and New York as well as Hong Kong Limited international office. ROTH is a privately owned firm that has built a culture of success and innovation. Our approach is driven by our current principals, who are not only the owners of the business but most of whom have been with us for more than 10 years. Our goal has always been to service the needs of…

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• Oct 2017 Advised Coban Technologies in its sale to Safe Fleet
• Sep 2017 Advised Renesola on an investment from Renesola
• May 2016 Advised Joolz on an investment from Gimv
• May 2016 Advised Eureka on an investment from KarpReilly Ltd.

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

HighBank Advisors

39 Total Closed Deals

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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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• Aug 2025 Advised Bethke Landscaping in its sale to Landscape Workshop
• Aug 2024 Advised ThinkStack in its sale to Confidential Company
• Mar 2022 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
• Sep 2017 Advised Unit Solutions LLC on an investment from Undisclosed

Cypress Associates LLC

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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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• Jul 2025 Advised Geo-Flo Corporation in its sale to Aalberts
• Jul 2023 Advised Psych Atlanta in its sale to Hightop Health
• Feb 2022 Advised Autem Medical on an investment from Zentynel
• Dec 2021 Advised Designed Precision Castings Inc. in its sale to Omni-Lite Industries

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

CoveView Advisors

37 Total Closed Deals

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CoveView is an Independent advisory firm, providing corporate finance services to corporations, private equity firms and financial institutions. Our partners average more than 25 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, private equity, leveraged finance, and restructuring.We bring continuous senior-level attention to every engagement with a focus on delivering unbiased strategic advice without the burden of institutional constraints or conflicts of interest. We have perspective from both middle market and big company experience that we bring to every client…

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• May 2018 Assisted Long's in securing debt financing from Confidential Company
• May 2018 Assisted Abode in securing debt financing from Confidential Company
• Mar 2018 Advised Beaulieu Group in its sale to Engineered Floors, LLC
• Feb 2018 Advised Bedrock Manufacturing Co. on an investment from Multiple Investors