Investment Banking (Industry Sector: Business Services)

Alliant Partners is an investment banking and advisory firm serving middle-market technology companies globally. Alliant's founders have more than 60 years'​ combined experience, solely focused on advising technology companies, and they have closed more than 300 transactions, comprising mergers, acquisitions, private placements of equity and debt, public financings, divestures, spin-offs and corporate partnerships.

Founded in 1994, Amherst Partners is completely independent and one of the Midwest’s largest and most reputable boutique investment banking and corporate restructuring firms. Amherst Partners is focused on providing middle-market companies with financial advisory assistance for mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and raising capital. Amherst Partners is also a long-time member of IMAP, the world’s largest network of M&A advisors.

Anderson LeNeave & Co. is a full-service investment banking firm providing professional merger and acquisition and financing advisory services exclusively to middle market companies. Its clients include management teams, entrepreneurs, family owned and closely held businesses, private equity groups and publicly held companies.

Apex Exit Advisors is a highly specialized advisory firm built on the unique perspectives, experiences and skills you need to reach the top and exit on your terms. Apex Exit Advisors is not business brokers or intermediaries. Instead, the firm combines the principles of financial planning, business planning, value enhancement, merger and acquisition practices, and capital markets to focus on the factors you need in order to transition on your own terms.

Apex Partners is a boutique investment banking firm providing a broad range of professional advisory services. The firm provides independent, objective advice to clients principally seeking liquidity or growth capital. The firm is comprised of seasoned professionals who have diverse backgrounds in investment banking, strategic planning, corporate development and finance. Its partners have worked extensively as principals and agents in structuring and closing transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $5 billion.

Armory provides comprehensive capabilities focused exclusively on the middle market, including investment banking, consulting and asset management. With broad coverage in 12 industry verticals, Armory has a track record of adding value for its clients. Clients choose Armory because it has confidence in its resources, expertise and ability to consistently deliver results.

Ashland Capital is a Chicago-based private investment firm devoted to investing in and growing companies in the lower-middle market. Ashland acquires controlling interests in companies with values ranging from $10 million to $50 million and strengthens these businesses with targeted, strategic guidance. The firm invests for the long term, partnering with in-place management teams to create lasting business value.

Bainbridge Capital is a premiere M&A advisory firm that uses a tech-enabled process to deliver fully qualified off-market deal flow and delivers transactional advice to private equity investors, family offices, corporations, executives, and business owners in buy-side market transactions. As a combination buy-side search and strategy consulting firm, its partners leverage them for delivering industry analysis and research for exploring new industries, making strategic investment recommendations, or providing a market landscape of potential acquisitions for a company they are looking to buy or sell. Bainbridge Capital identifies off-market opportunities as new platform investments or add-on acquisitions for existing portfolio companies.

BDO Capital Advisors, LLC, a wholly-owned affiliate of BDO USA, is a leading middle market investment bank that focuses on sell-side advisory, acquisition advisory, capital raising and board advisory services with offices located throughout the United States. The firm has broad industry expertise and contacts having closed transactions within the Manufacturing & Distribution, Consumer, Healthcare, Business Services, Energy, Technology, Media & Telecom sectors. Its seasoned investment bankers have collectively advised on hundreds of transactions for a variety of clients including family-owned businesses, entrepreneur-led companies, public corporations and leading private equity firms.

BellMark Partners, LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides advisory and investment banking services to middle market and lower middle market companies in the following industries: consumer, industrial, business services, and healthcare. BellMark Partners advises family businesses, entrepreneurial or closely-held companies, private equity-owned companies, and small-cap public companies. Its services include: M&A advisory, strategic alternative reviews, restructuring assignments, valuations & fairness opinions, and financing services.