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TrueNorth Capital Partners, LLC

Investment Bank
  • 10 Total Closed Deals
TrueNorth was founded with a clear sense of purpose and direction: provide exceptional, unfiltered and unbiased merger and acquisition and restructuring advice to middle market companies. Our firm understands those issues unique to this market and works within a structure that guarantees senior level execution. The TrueNorth team has the integrity and foresight to forego short term gain in favor of creating lasting relationships borne of trust. The founding members of TrueNorth have built their careers and reputations serving this market and understanding its intricacies. They have evidenced…
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Genesis Capital, LLC

Investment Bank
  • 10 Total Closed Deals
Genesis Capital is an independent investment and merchant banking firm dedicated to working with family-owned and entrepreneur-led businesses, public corporations, and institutional investors to achieve their most important strategic initiatives."Focus on Need vs. Size"Our mission is to best serve clients through our "Focus on Need vs. Size". Genesis Capital has worked with clients in excess of $30 billion to under $25 million of enterprise value and has completed transactions ranging from over $1 billion to under $10 million. Our clients include leading public corporations, private…
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Anderson LeNeave & Co

Investment Bank
  • 10 Total Closed Deals
Anderson LeNeave & Co. is a full-service investment banking firm providing professional merger and acquisition and financing advisory services exclusively to middle market companies. Our clients include management teams, entrepreneurs, family owned and closely held businesses, private equity groups and publicly held companies. We have worked on transactions in nearly every industry, including multiple transactions in Building Products, Business Services, Consumer, Distribution, Diversified Industrial, Financial Services, Healthcare, Printing and Packaging, Security and Safety, Technology,…
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Amherst Partners

Investment Bank
  • 10 Total Closed Deals
At Amherst Partners, exceptional client service begins with senior-level attention. Navigating the complexities facing companies requires experience. Amherst team members bring demonstrated expertise to every client engagement, and the solutions we deliver are a product of applied knowledge. Our approach, combined with responsiveness and attention to detail, enables us to exceed client expectations in both good and challenging markets.We also have extensive international experience, an essential proficiency required to serve clients in today's marketplace. Amherst has an excellent track…
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Marriott & Co

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  • 10 Total Closed Deals
Marriott & Co. is a premier, independent boutique investment banking firm focused on advising closely-held private companies across a wide variety of industries. We provide merger and acquisition advisory and capital raising services primarily to family-held businesses and entrepreneurial business owners in the middle market.
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Jett Capital Advisors LLC

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  • 10 Total Closed Deals
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Bayfield Partners

Investment Bank
  • 10 Total Closed Deals
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…
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Merrimack Group

Investment Bank
  • 10 Total Closed Deals
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.
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Whipstitch Capital

Investment Bank
  • 10 Total Closed Deals
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…
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Xnergy

Investment Bank
  • 10 Total Closed Deals
Xnergy Financial is an international investment bank that provides corporate finance and merger & acquisition strategy to emerging and middle-market companies.
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RGL Advisors

Investment Bank
  • 9 Total Closed Deals
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…
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Carleton McKenna

Investment Bank
  • 8 Total Closed Deals
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.
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May 2014
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Legacy Capital Advisors

Investment Bank
  • 7 Total Closed Deals
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…
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Capstone Financial Group

Investment Bank
  • 7 Total Closed Deals
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…
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North River Advisors

Investment Bank
  • 7 Total Closed Deals
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…
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MS Capital Advisors

Investment Bank
  • 6 Total Closed Deals
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…
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Telsey Advisory Group

Investment Bank
  • 6 Total Closed Deals
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,…
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Plains America Capital Partners

Investment Bank
  • 6 Total Closed Deals
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…
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Financial Technology Partners

Investment Bank
  • 6 Total Closed Deals
Financial Technology Partners LP and FTP Securities LLC ("FT Partners") is the only investment banking firm focused exclusively on the financial technology sector. We broadly define the sector as the dynamic convergence of technology-based solutions and financial services. FT Partners was recently recognized as "Dealmaker of the Year" and "Investment Banking Firm of the Year" by The M&A Advisor.The firm was founded by Steve McLaughlin, Managing Partner, formerly a senior investment banker in Goldman Sachs & Co.'s Financial Technology Group and Financial Institutions Group in New York and San…
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Sikich Investment Banking

Investment Bank
  • 6 Total Closed Deals
Executing M&A and capital raising transactions requires the counsel of advisors with firsthand knowledge of the costs and value drivers associated with these transactions. Our senior principals are all former business owners who have been charged with similar decisions and have lived with the results in a way few investment banking advisors have. We will evaluate timeframe, expectations, current market conditions and viable alternatives. We understand that each situation is unique and deserves its own distinct strategy. With headquarters in Chicago and offices nationwide, you will find that…
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