Investment Banking (Industry Sector: Consumer and Retail)

PJT Partners is a leading independent investment bank. Across its three divisions, PJT Partners delivers a comprehensive range of advisory and capital raising solutions to achieve clients’ strategic objectives. Strategic Advisory: The firm consistently delivers innovative solutions to highly complex challenges across M&A, spin-offs, private placements, structured products and other transactions. Restructuring & Special Situations: PJT Partners is a leading advisor to companies and creditors in restructurings and bankruptcies around the world.

Pleasant Bay Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on acquisitions, recapitalizations, and minority investments in lower-middle market companies. Pleasant Bay Capital Partners focuses on Healthcare, Technology, Business Services, Consumer and Industrial Products & Services companies with greater than $10M in revenues and profits in the $2M-20M EBITDA range. Transactions types include buyouts, growth equity, recapitalizations, shareholder liquidity, and acquisitions.

Plethora Businesses is a leading M&A firm specializing in business sales, mergers, acquisitions, valuations, and corporate strategy management. The firm has been successfully advising business owners & investors throughout the United States since 1999. It is proud of its history, the relationships it has built and the hundreds of completed transactions and projects.

Prairie offers investment banking, ESOP advisory and valuation services to support the growth and ownership transition strategies of middle-market companies. Headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, the company is a leading advisor to closely-held companies nationwide. Prairie was named the 2019 USA Valuations & Opinions Firm of the Year by M&A Atlas. Over the last 20 years, Prairie has closed hundreds of transactions for clients in a wide range of industries across the country.

Prometheus Capital is a private merchant bank providing advice and capital to investors and middle market companies. The firm combines investment banking and asset management services with its focus on strategic opportunities in specific verticals. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, but has a national reach through its operating partners in other markets. The verticals on which the company focuses include: apparel & specialty retail; sports & entertainment; precision manufacturing; wineries; vineyards & resort real estate; and financial services.

Prospect Partners is a leading lower-middle-market private equity firm based in Chicago. It focuses exclusively on management-led leveraged recapitalizations and acquisitions of small companies with niche strategies, managing three funds totaling $470 million. Prospect Partners is a highly experienced, active, and committed investor in smaller lower-middle-market companies with revenues typically under $75 million.

Quarton, a Cowen Company (“Quarton”), is the middle-market European advisory business of Cowen Inc. Quarton is focused on middle-market companies throughout the EU and advises on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private capital raising for both debt and equity. Their client base includes entrepreneurs, private equity firms, listed companies and privately held companies across a variety of sectors, including TMT, Industrials, Consumer, Health Care, Business Services and Energy.

For almost three decades, the Managing Partners of RBI Advisors have provided M&A, corporate finance and financial advisory services to middle market private and publicly held businesses that seek growth or are in transition. The expertise and experiences of its professionals include service businesses, manufacturers, distributors, retail, non-profits, high tech and low tech. Geographically it has completed transactions nationally and internationally, and its clients run businesses in just about every industry imaginable.

RKJ Partners Atlanta Corporation is an Atlanta-based investment banking firm formed to assist lower middle-market growth companies in executing transactions less than $100MM. Specifically, it provides capital advisory services, buy-side and sell-side M&A advisory services and strategic advisory services.

Roadmap Advisors is a niche mergers and acquisitions firm matching qualified family office, private equity, corporate and individual buyers with privately-owned businesses. Unlike many investment banks and deal brokers, the firm primarily works on buyer searches. All of its deals are made through proprietary, highly curated, one-to-one introductions between serious buyers and motivated sellers.