Investment Banking (Industry Sector: Financial Services)

SunTrust Banks, Inc. is an American bank holding company. The largest subsidiary is SunTrust Bank. It had US$199 billion in assets as of March 31, 2018. SunTrust Bank's most direct corporate parent was established in 1891 in Atlanta, where its headquarters remain. The bank's primary businesses include deposits, lending, credit cards, and trust and investment services. Through its various subsidiaries, the company provides corporate and investment banking, capital market services, mortgage banking, and wealth management.

SVG Capital Group is a firm of market driven transaction advisors focused exclusively on the purchase and sale of mid-market businesses and the raising of debt and equity capital. The advisors at SVG Capital Group have over 50 years experience in valuing and advising on the buying and selling of businesses. Their success is based upon maintaining an extensive network of contacts and potential buyers across Canada, the United States and around the world.

TAP Advisors is a New York based M&A, strategic and corporate finance advisory investment banking firm. Founded in late 2009, TAP Advisors offers a full range of M&A advisory services, private financing solutions and expertise in international transactions. The Senior Professionals have worked on announced M&A transactions exceeding $500 billion across multiple industries and geographies and come from various investment banking companies, including UBS, Citi, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Evercore.

The Acquisition Search Corporation (TASC) advises and assists Owners and Chief Executive Officers on strategic acquisitions and on the sale of entrepreneurial businesses to strategic buyers. The Acquisition Search Corporation primarily handles transactions valued between $1 million and $20 million. TASC focuses on transactions that are too small to be of interest to investment bankers and that require more strategic advice and deal management assistance than normally offered by business brokers.

The Baldwin & Clarke Companies was founded in Boston in 1971. Senior management has over 150 years of collective financial services experience. Baldwin & Clarke Corporate Finance has completed in excess of $1.2 billion in M&A transactions, including over $500 million in capital raised. Baldwin & Clarke, LLP has placed close to $1 billion of insurance for the purpose of addressing the business, estate, and personal financial needs of its clients.

The Burke Group is an independent, team-owned investment banking firm based in Atlanta, Georgia focused exclusively on community banks and financial services. Completing over 100 transactions, the team brings a wealth of expertise and have formed lasting client relationships. Clients benefit from customized, hands-on problem solving from the firm’s team and the flexibility of an independent firm.

The Catalyst Group specializes in corporate development for technology companies. Its clients have ranged from large public companies to smaller private enterprises, which are sometimes too small for serious attention by traditional investment banking and consultancy firms, yet are big enough to require sophisticated, senior management expertise. Operating internationally, The Catalyst Group enables clients to move quickly as they seek to grow, reshape, expand into new markets, or sharpen their focus on core opportunities through acquisition, divestiture or corporate alliances and restructuring.

Founded in 1987, The Chesapeake Group is an independent, financial & strategic advisory firm which specializes in cross-border transactions in the mid-market space, with over the last 30 years of experience in working with clients across the United States, India, Latin America and Europe. Chesapeake Group specializes in M&A transactions, equity capital raises, recapitalizations and strategic alliances that help its clients transform their businesses to maximize enterprise value in a digital world.

The Courtney Group is a boutique investment bank providing private equity and investment banking services. It specializes in helping US-based manufacturing and service businesses with revenues of $10 million to $1 billion achieve their long-term goals through acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, and financings.

GreensLedge is an independent investment banking firm focused on the global structured credit and alternative investment marketplace. It provides advisory and related transactional services to issuers, investors and other institutional market participants worldwide. From its offices in New York, London, Tokyo and Seoul it serves a wide range of clients looking for advice on and assistance with their most important strategic issues.